african american authors

Contains essays in which Maya Angelou uses memories and poems to offer life lessons and inspirational wisdom to the "thousands of daughters" she considers her extended family.

An illustrated biography, complete with family photographs and letters, of poet, playwright, and humanitarian Maya Angelou, displaying her life and work as an author, actress, director, and civil-rights activist.

Relates the author's personal narrative of the time she spent in Ghana with other Black American expatriates.

Gives biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on twelve modern African American poets and dramatists.

An anthology of critical essays that provide a wide range of information and opinion about the autobiographical novel "Black Boy, " and its author, Richard Wright.

Baldwin's friend of twenty-five years writes about the man who struggled out of Harlem to create a series of works exposing racism in America and the world.

A literary biography describing the life, friends, and work of the American author.

Autobiography covering the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

A biography of the American poet whose works articulated the despair of African Americans over social and economic conditions.