african american women authors

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.

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.

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

This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of black artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.

Collected interviews with Nobel prize winning author, Toni Morrison, revealing her feelings about her life and work as an African-American woman writer.

Presents critical essays on Maya Angelou's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

Contains twenty-five conversations held between Toni Morrison and journalists, scholars, and novelists over the course of nearly thirty years, in which the Nobel Prize-winning author shares her thoughts on her life, work, African-American history and culture, and American society.

Relates the views of fifteen Afro-American women writers regarding their work, their lives, and their writing.

A continuation of her autobiography by the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "Gather Together In my Name." Tells of her marriage and her theatrical career.