african american authors

Discusses the life and work of the well-known author of award-winning young adult literature who grew up in Harlem as a foster child and struggled with his identity as an African American writer.

Presents a biography of Zora Neale Hurston, chronicling her childhood and detailing the influences that shaped her career as an author. Examines how Hurston worked through the poverty that followed her much of her life and charts the rise in the popularity of her books that followed her death. Includes black-and-white photographs.

Continues Angelou's autobiography, I know why the caged bird sings. As the book begins, she is in her teens and has given birth to a son.

Text and accompanying photographs discuss the life and work of the noted African-American writer.

The sixth in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, beginning in 1964 when she returned to the U.S. from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discussing her reaction to his assassination, her firsthand view of the Watts riots, her subsequent work with Martin Luther King Jr., and the impact of his death on her life and career.

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that introduce the major writers and great works of the Harlem Renaissance, a period characterized by a flowering of African-American literature and other artistic endeavors.

A biography of the multi-faceted African-American woman, Maya Angelou, tracing her life from her childhood in the segrated South to her prominence as a well-known writer.

Presents a guide to reading and understanding Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, " featuring a character list, summary, analysis, study questions and answers, and suggested essay topics for each chapter, and including information on the life of the author.

Collection of twenty-eight critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narrators to contemporary feminist authors.

A collection of essays in which thirty American authors reveal racial hopes, fears, fury, and triumphs of white and African-American writers alike.