Louise Meriwether second husband: Who is Earle Howe?

The late Louise Meriwether was a writer and activist whose coming-of-age book “Daddy Was a Number Runner” was hailed as a breakthrough and essential portrayal of race, gender, and class. Her age was one hundred.

The success of Meriwether’s first book, along with contemporary works by Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou like “The Bluest Eye” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” contributed to the growth of Black women’s voices in literature.

In his foreword, Meriwether received appreciation from James Baldwin for explaining to “everyone who can read or feel what it means to be a black man or woman in this country.” One of the people who would later attribute the book with inspiring them to become authors was National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson.

Louise Meriwether second husband: Who is Earle Howe?

She got divorced from both of her first two husbands, Angelo Meriwether and Earle Howe. She continued to go by the name Meriwether despite the fact that this marriage, along with her second marriage to Earle Howe, ended in divorce.