<P> Ambrose J. Flack (March 16, 1902 - April 1, 1980) was an American novelist and short story author best known for writing the short story "The Strangers That Came To Town". </P> <P> From the 1930s to 1969, Flack wrote stories and articles for The Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, and other publications . He also authored a teleplay, Make Way for Teddy, and two novels, Family on the Hill (1945) and Room for Mr. Roosevelt (1951). </P> <P> Flack's signature achievement, "The Strangers That Came to Town" was an early literary examination of bigotry and prejudice in small - town America that pre-dated the similarly - themed To Kill a Mockingbird . Narrated by a young boy named Andy, the story follows the Duvitch family, Croatian immigrants whose physical appearance the narrator immediately marks as both "foreign" and poor . Though sicknesses typical of the period (typhoid, whooping cough, measles) and dire poverty afflict the family, they remain kind, optimistic, and surprisingly generous . </P> <P> The townspeople, however, have trouble looking beyond appearances . They harangue the Duvitch siblings, taunting them for everything from "the leaf, lard and black bread sandwiches they ate for lunch" to the "rag pickers' clothes" they wear to school . </P>

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