What is A Nickel and a Prayer?
A Nickel and a Prayer is the autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter.
Three editions have been published to date.
A Nickel and a Prayer was out of print until 2011.
However, in 2008 the JEH Project Team started working on a new edition of the autobiography that reintroduced Hunter as a multifaceted figure through its engagement with previously unpublished archival material. The new edition is based on the second edition, and it
- includes personal correspondence, speeches, newsletters, and
photographs;
- addresses the operative social, religious, historical, cultural, and political
contexts for Hunter's autobiography and life; and
- strengthens Hunter's literary and social legacy by contextualizing and
historicizing A Nickel and a Prayer.
The JEH Project's first edited and annotated edition of A Nickel and a Prayer is was published by West Virginia University Press in 2011 as part of Regenerations, a new series whose mission is to renew scholarly interest in out-of-print books by African American writers.
Follow this link to read an excerpt of A Nickel and a Prayer.
- 1940 - Elli Kani Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
- 1941 - Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee
- 1984 - The Jane E. Hunter Scholarship Committee
A Nickel and a Prayer was out of print until 2011.
However, in 2008 the JEH Project Team started working on a new edition of the autobiography that reintroduced Hunter as a multifaceted figure through its engagement with previously unpublished archival material. The new edition is based on the second edition, and it
- includes personal correspondence, speeches, newsletters, and
photographs;
- addresses the operative social, religious, historical, cultural, and political
contexts for Hunter's autobiography and life; and
- strengthens Hunter's literary and social legacy by contextualizing and
historicizing A Nickel and a Prayer.
The JEH Project's first edited and annotated edition of A Nickel and a Prayer is was published by West Virginia University Press in 2011 as part of Regenerations, a new series whose mission is to renew scholarly interest in out-of-print books by African American writers.
Follow this link to read an excerpt of A Nickel and a Prayer.
© 2009 Jane Edna Hunter Project