1928–2014
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Sarah Farro
Biography
United States
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Biography
Sarah E. Farro was a 19th-century African American novelist. Her only known novel, True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life, was published in 1891 by Donohue & Henneberry in Chicago. Despite being only one of a handful of known African-Americans that published a novel in the 1800s, little is known about her life. According to census records, Farro was born in Illinois in about 1859.
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