African American long fiction -- James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- George Washington Cable -- Charles Waddell Chesnutt -- Ralph Ellison -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Chester Himes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- William Melvin Kelley -- Nella Larsen -- Harper Lee -- Claude McKay -- Terry McMillan -- Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Ishmael Reed -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Alice Walker -- Colson Whitehead -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Richard Wright -- Frank Yerby.
Summary
Provides essays of influential African American writers such as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.