Biography
Pettitt's grandparents were a big, early influence, telling her memorable stories. As a child, Pettitt also observed various types of people who lived in her neighborhood. She valued greatly the sincere integrity of the working people who made up her community.
In 1969, she went to Antioch College, where she was exposed to the difficulties that sometimes surface between people of different races and social classes, and, at the same time, to the unity that can cross these boundaries.
In 1974 upon earning a BA with distinction from Antioch she moved to London on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. There, for the first time, she experienced working with diverse populations include working-class Whites and blacks, the latter mostly young immigrants from the Caribbean.
Returning to the United States Pettitt settled in New York City, where she still resides. She has been married since 1982 to writer, director and painter Rémy Tissier.
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