African American poets : lives, works, and sources / Joyce Pettis.

Pettis, Joyce Owens.

African-American writers : a dictionary / Shari Dorantes Hatch and Michael R. Strickland, editors ; foreword by Dorothy Strickland.

African American authors, 1745-1945 : bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.

African American authors, 1745-1945 : bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.

Black American poets and dramatists : before the Harlem Renaissance / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Afro-American fiction writers after 1955 / edited by Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris.

African American biography.

African American breakthroughs : 500 years of black firsts / Jay P. Pederson and Jessie Carney Smith, editors.

African American writers / Valerie Smith, consulting editor ; Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors.

Contemporary African American novelists : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook / edited by Emmanuel S. Nelson.