Julia Peterkin

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As per our current Database, Julia Peterkin is still alive (as per Wikipedia, Last update: May 10, 2020).

🎂 Julia Peterkin - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Julia Peterkin is 144 years, 0 months and 2 days old. Julia Peterkin will celebrate 145rd birthday on a Friday 31st of October 2025. Below we countdown to Julia Peterkin upcoming birthday.

🌙 Zodiac

Julia Peterkin’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Julia Peterkin was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

About

An American fiction writer, she penned the novel Scarlet Sister Mary and won the O. Henry Award for her short story Maum Lou. Her other works include Bright Skin, Black April, and A Plantation Christmas.

Before Fame

She taught at a school in Forte Motte, South Carolina. She published her debut short story collection, Green Thursday, in 1924.

Trivia

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Scarlet Sister Mary.

Family Life

She and her three siblings were the children of a South Carolina physician. She married William George Peterkin in 1903.

Associated With

She played the lead role in a Columbia, South Carolina theatrical production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

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