african american authors

Presents alphabetized biographical profiles of 150 African-American writers, describing their works and their significance in literary history, and provides a further reading list for each entry, a bibliography, and three reference lists.

The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

Presents portraits of various post-World War II writers based in Paris, focusing on the stories of Richard Wright, the African-American author who left the United States in search of freedom, and Maurice Girodias, founder of the Olympia Press.

Describes the life of the writer James Baldwin, focusing on his experiences as an African-American civil rights worker and as a gay man.

Collection of interviews revealing Wright's racial experience and the themes and techniques of his own work.

A collection of thirty-four critical and biographical essays on African-American writers, ranging from slave narratives to contemporary feminist authors, each including a selected bibliography.

Presents over two dozen interviews with the author, poet, dramatist, actress, and filmmaker Maya Angelou.

Contains a brief biography of children's writer Christopher Paul Curtis, providing information on his early life, his family, his influences, and how he became a writer.

African-American author Maya Angelou looks at her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter.

Explores Zora Neale Hurston's, Their eyes were watching God, as a work of literature through the lens of the major social issue reflected in it, and features carefully-selected content representing a variety of perspectives.