Portland Public Library

Notable African American writers, edited by Robert C. Evans

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1027-1060) and indexes

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Notable African American writers

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edited by Robert C. Evans

This new, second edition of Notable African American Writers documents the ever-growing African American literary tradition, highlighting African Americans who wrote centuries ago, as well as modern storytellers whose work reflects the changing global landscape. Readers will explore what inspired various African-American writers to create poems, plays, short stories, novels, essays, opinion pieces and numerous other works, and how those writers contributed to American culture. From autobiography to young adult fiction, these volumes provide an overview and more in-depth context of each author's biography and literary career as well as a ready-reference listing of his or her major works in all genres. In the decade and a half since the publication of the first edition, African American literature became an even more vibrant part of the American literary tradition than it had already been. Some writers who had previously established themselves as major figures, such as Toni Morrison, con­tinued to be impressively productive, while new writers who were very little known at the time of the first edition’s publication have now established themselves as important authors in their own right., Provided by publisher

V. 1. Ai-Nikki Giovanni -- v. 2. Alex Haley-Ishmael Reed -- v. 3. Sonia Sanchez-Al Young; genre essays; bibliography; indexesAi -- Maya Angelou -- James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka -- Arna Wendell Bontemps -- Edward Kamau Brathwaite -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sterling A. Brown -- Ed Bullins -- Octavia E. Butler -- Bebe Moore Campbell -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Alice Childress -- Lucille Clifton -- Ta-Nehisi Coates -- Teju Cole -- Countee Cullen -- Edwidge Danticat -- Samuel R. Delany -- Toi Derricotte -- Owen Dodson -- Frederick Douglass -- Rita Dove -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Michael Eric Dyson -- Cornelius Eady -- Lonne Elder III -- Ralph Ellison -- Percival Everett -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Charles Fuller -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr -- Roxane Gay -- Nikki Giovanni -- Alex Haley -- Virginia Hamilton -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Michael S. Harper -- Robert Hayden -- Terrance Hayes -- Chester Himes -- bell hooks -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Charles Johnson -- June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Martin Luther King, Jr -- Etheridge Knight -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nella Larsen -- Audre Lorde -- Haki R. Madhubuti -- Clarence Major -- Paule Marshall -- Dawn Lundy Martin -- James McBride -- Claude McKay -- Reginald McKnight -- Terry McMillan -- James Alan McPherson -- Dinaw Mengestu -- Toni Morrison -- Walter Dean Myers -- Gloria Naylor -- Lynn Nottage -- Gordon Parks, Sr -- Suzan-Lori Parks -- Ann Petry -- Dudley Randall -- Claudia Rankine -- Ishmael Reed -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ntozake Shange -- Anna Deavere Smith -- Tracy K. Smith -- Jean Toomer -- Natasha Trethewey -- Alice Walker -- Joseph A. Walker -- Booker T. Washington -- Cornel West -- Phillis Wheatley -- Colson Whitehead -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- August Wilson -- Jacqueline Woodson -- Jay Wright -- Richard Wright -- Frank Yerby -- Al Young -- Genre Essasys -- African American Drama -- African American Poetry -- African American Long Fiction -- African American Short Fiction -- Bibliography -- Genre Index -- Title Index -- Subject Index