Scarlet Sister Mary Author:Julia Peterkin Julia Mood Peterkin published her "Scarlet Sister Mary" in 1928 at a crucial time in the history of American literature as a whole and Southern writing in particular, for new trends toward realism were being set by such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Sinclair Lewis. Julia Peterkin was one of the few Southern authors... more » to produce writing in harmony with this trend. Her tender and moving story of Negro plantation life in coastal South Carolina won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.« less