The Jane Edna Hunter Project

What is A Nickel and a Prayer?


A Nickel and a Prayer is the autobiography of Jane Edna Hunter.

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Three editions have been published to date.
  1. 1940 - Elli Kani Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
  2. 1941 - Parthenon Press, Nashville, Tennessee
  3. 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edition of the autobiography that reintroduced Hunter as a multifaceted figure through its engagement with previously unpublished archival material.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