Writers of English

Gives critical, bibliographical, and biographical information on 12 esteemed black American fiction writers.

Provides biographical and critical information on seventeen African-American women poets and dramatists who have made significant contributions to literature during the twentieth century.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on the thirteen most significant African-American prose writers up to the early twentieth century.

Provides detailed biographies, extracts, and bibliographies of 13 classic crime and suspense writers.

Gives biographical, critical and bibliographical information on twelve writers of science fiction up to the 1930's.

Gives biographical, critical, and bibliographic information on twelve modern African-American fiction writers.

Provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on fifteen African-American women fiction writers including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.

Provides critical, bibliographical, and biographical information on fourteen contemporary African-American poets and dramatists.

Profiles eleven Black American writers from the middle of the 19th century through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Features biographies of each author, critical extracts on their works, and bibliographies.

Gives biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on thirteen mystery writers up to 1930.