african american authors

Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on African-American literature, covering major and minor authors, notable writings in all genres, terms, themes, historical events, movements, and other topics. Includes cross-references, a bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of major works.

Presents a collection of poetry by a number of noted twentieth-century African-American writers including Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Gayl Jones, and others.

A collection of short stories and essays from the speculative fiction, fantasy, and science fiction genres written by authors of the African diaspora.

A collection of more than fifty works of prose and poetry by African-American writers, centering on the theme of angels.

An overview of the African American literary tradition, with the work of 120 authors form 1746-the present in all genres.

Collects 367 alphabetically arranged essays, from A-Dre, that discuss the works of over one hundred African-American authors from the eighteenth through the early twenty-first century, covering genres and individual works by poets, novelists, playwrights, historians, critics, essayists, and orators.

Collection of hundreds of poems from writers across the United States responding to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones.

Presents speeches given by the twentieth-century's leading African-American cultural, spiritual, and political figures, which includes Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Dick Gregory, Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Martin Luther King Jr., and others.