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1916

Edna Lewis
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1932

Edna Lewis
Washington DC
in 1932
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1936

Edna Lewis
Steven Kingston
in 1936
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1947

Edna Lewis
New York City
in 1947
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Edna Lewis
in 1947
in a Brooklyn laundry, where she was assigned to an ironing board

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Edna Lewis
seamstress
in 1947
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Edna Lewis
in 1947
in
Brooklyn
She had never ironed and lasted three hours before she was dismissed

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Edna Lewis
in 1947
for the communist newspaper The Daily Worker

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Edna Lewis
John Nicholson
in 1947
in
New York City
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1948

Edna Lewis
cook
in 1948
in
on 58th Street, in East Side Manhattan
at Café Nicholson, which became an instant success among bohemians and artists.

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1950

Edna Lewis
in 1950
at The Daily Worker

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1953

Edna Lewis
Café Nicholson
in 1953
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Edna Lewis
New Jersey
in 1953
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Edna Lewis
pheasant farmer
in 1953
in
New Jersey
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1955

Edna Lewis
pheasant farmer
in 1955
when the entire flock died one evening from an unidentified disease

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Edna Lewis
her own restaurant
in 1955
catered for friends and acquaintances

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Edna Lewis
her own restaurant
in 1955
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1972

Edna Lewis
The Edna Lewis Cookbook
in 1972
With encouragement from Judith Jones, the cookbook editor at Knopf. with Evangeline Peterson

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