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Book

African American women writers

Call Number

  • J 920 W (OSH)

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Publication Information

New York : John Wiley & Sons, c2000.

Physical Description

ix, 166 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Summary

Discusses the lives and work of such notable African American women authors as: Phillis Wheatley, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nikki Giovanni, and Terry McMillan.

Contents

  • Phillis Wheatley
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Jacobs
  • Frances E.W. Harper
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Dorothy West
  • Ann Petry
  • Margaret Walker Alexander
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Maya Angelou
  • Paula Marshall
  • Lorraine Hansberry
  • Toni Morrison
  • Audre Lorde
  • Lucille Clifton
  • Toni Cade Bambara
  • Nikki Giovanni
  • Alice Walker
  • Octavia Butler
  • Ntozake Shange
  • Terry McMillan.

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Added Authors

James Haskins