african american authors

Presents novel excerpts and short stories from Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, and others.

Contains four stories of faith, family, and forgiveness, including selections by Jacquelin Thomas, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, J.D. Mason, and Sandra Kitt.

An anthology of African-American literature, featuring the work of 123 authors born between 1746 and 1969 writing in a variety of genres, and including period introductions, author headnotes, and two compact discs with vocal and instrumental pieces, as well as spoken word performances.

Bibliography of 166 fiction titles written by African-American authors between 1968 and 1993, featuring African-American protagonists between the ages of nine and nineteen, and marketed to young adult readers.

Chronicles the lives and works of 100 black women authors writing in the United States between 1900 and 1945.

Includes about 300 African-American women authors whose works were published between 1976 and 1987.

A collection of poetry on nature, passion, politics, hope, peace, freedom, and other topics, gathered primarily with the inner-city youth in mind.

Over "230 essays describe the works of 135 African-American authors from the eighteenth century to the present[1994]...including works by literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance"--Publisher's catalog.