african american authors

Presents a collection of poetry by Pulitzer Prize winner, Gwendolyn Brooks.

Presents four of twentieth-century African-American writer Maya Angelou's poetry collections: "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diie," "Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well," "And Still I Rise," and "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?".

Contains essays written in the years between 1929 and the 1940s by writers employed by the Work Projects Administration who were assigned to gather information about the lives of ordinary men and women living in New York's Harlem.

A collection of poems by one of America's major black poets, including her four previously published books and her prose memoir, Generations.

Presents selected works of fiction by African-American women.

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.

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

This collection of plays focusing on the Black experience in America includes "The Hall of Black American Heroes," "John Henry," I Have a Dream," and eight others.

A poem based on the story of creation from the book of Genesis in the Bible.