african american authors

Offers a brief introduction to the life, work, and writings of African-American author and activist Alice Walker.

Contains a biography of African-American writer James Baldwin, and includes information on his academic life, his influences, his outsider life as a preacher in Harlem, and his role as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Includes chronology and bibliography.

Profiles the African American author, discussing her childhood, struggle for education, and career as a novelist and folklorist.

Children's author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.

Graphic novel adaptations of stories and poems written by some of America's earliest African American authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and Alice Dunbar Nelson.

Discusses the life and career of Rita Williams-Garcia, award-winning African-American author of books for children and young adults.

The author examines his brother's life in comparison to his own and asks himself why they are so different, one a college professor, one sentenced to life imprisonment.