african american authors

Dramatizes the life and career of novelist Zora Neale Hurston whose writings provided insights into African-American life in the 1930s and 1940s.

Collection of interviews with sixteen African-American writers, including novelists, poets, journalists, and playwrights, discussing race, gender, and their work.

A biography of Virginia Hamilton, the African American writer whose children's literature received the highest possible awards during her lifetime, including the Newbery and the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

Examines the life and accomplishments of the African-American writer, performer, and teacher, and covers her impact on literature and culture.

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.