Details

Description

xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 33

Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 33.

Note

"A Bruccoli Clark book."

Bibliography

Bibliography: pages 317-319.

Note

Includes index.

Contents

James Baldwin -- Barry Beckham -- Hal Bennett -- David Bradley -- Cecil Brown -- Octavia E. Butler -- George Cain -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Cyrus Colter -- Samuel R. Delany -- William Demby -- Junius Edwards -- Ronald L. Fair -- Leon Forrest -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Donald Goines -- Rosa Guy -- Virginia Hamilton -- Nathan C. Heard -- Frank E.M. Hercules -- Kristin Hunter -- Charles R. Johnson -- Gayl Jones -- William Melvin Kelley -- John Oliver Killens -- Clarence Major -- Paule Marshall -- Sharon Bell Mathis -- Julian Mayfield -- John A. McCluskey, Jr. -- Louise Meriwether -- Toni Morrison -- Walter Dean Myers -- Gordon Parks -- Robert Deane Pharr -- Carlene Hatcher Polite -- Ishmael Reed -- Ann Allen Shockley -- Herbert Alfred Simmons -- Ellease Southerland -- Joyce Carol Thomas -- Henry Van Dyke -- Mary Elizabeth Vroman -- Alice Walker -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Charles Stevenson Wright -- Sarah Elizabeth Wright -- Al Young -- Appendix. Afro-American critics : an introduction.

Subject

American fiction -- African American authors -- Dictionaries.

American fiction -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.

American fiction -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.

Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.

African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.

African American novelists -- Biography -- Dictionaries.

American fiction -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.

African Americans in literature -- Dictionaries.

Added Author

Davis, Thadious M., 1944-

Harris, Trudier.

ISBN

0810317117