African American Writers
- ISBN-10
- 0020821255
- ISBN-13
- 9780020821250
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 414
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Collier Books
- Authors
- Valerie Smith, A. Walton Litz, Lea Baechler
Description
This concise edition of a 1991 Scribner's Reference work features detailed biographical portraits of 28 black writers, including James Baldwin, Alice Walker, W.E.B. DuBois, Ntozake Shange, Richard Wright, and others--a 200-year chronicle of their lives and literature.
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Other editions
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- 2001
- 925 pages
- Paperback
- Charles Scribner's Sons
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