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Lottie Richter and her younger sons Joe and Fred, with the family dog Dixie, Reading, PA, 1900.
Credit: Photograph courtesy of Harvena Richter
Conrad Richter took this photograph of his mother and younger brothers when he was just eleven. He would use his own childhood memories, including those recalled by this photograph, in writing The Waters of Kronos, a semi-autobiographical novel that won the National Book Award in 1960.