Ann Fairbairn, whose birth name was Dorothy Tait, is primarily recognized for her impactful novel "Five Smooth Stones." Her literary endeavors also encompassed a biography of jazz clarinetist George Lewis, whose tours she managed, and another novel, "That Man Cartwright." Fairbairn's writing career included involvement with the WPA project as a writer during the 1930s. Her experiences, such as working as a riveter in San Francisco shipyards during World War II and her time in Bakersfield and New Orleans, likely informed the depth and perspective found in her work.
An interracial romamce, intended to synthesize the Negro experience in terms and through people which will involve the reader and explore semantic worlds of difference and discrimination from ""nigra"" to ""white man's nigger"" to the point where the Negro can be an individual without a tag.