Jean Fagan Yellin, who uncovered a slavery tale's true author, dies at 92

A historian, Jean Fagan Yellin, spent six years of sleuthing to reveal that what had been presumed to be a 19th-century white author’s fictional account of a young woman’s life as a slave in the American South was, in fact, written by a formerly enslaved woman.

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