| Description |
2 volumes ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
v. 1 -- Preface -- List of authors by genre -- Chronological list of authors -- Elizabeth Laura Adams (1909-1982) / Hermine Pinson -- Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (1853-1889) / Iva Balic -- Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (?-?) / Elizabeth Marsden -- Mignon Holland Anderson (1945- ) / Teresa Clark Caruso -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) / Joi Carr -- Tina McElroy Ansa (1949- ) / Tarshia L. Stanley -- Doris Jean Austin (1949-1994) / Imani Lillie B. Fryar -- Nikki Baker (1962- ) / Kimberly Downing Braddock -- Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) / Rochelle Spencer -- Gwendolyn Bennett (1902-1981) / Sue E. Barker -- Marital Bonner (1898-1971) / Sophie Blanch -- Candy Dawson Boyd (1946- ) / Bennie P. Robinson - Joanne Braxton (1950- ) / Tanya N. Clark -- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) / Bridget Harris Tsemo -- Linda Beatrice Brown (1939- ) / Teresa Clark Caruso -- Annie Louise Burton (1858-19190) / Gabriel A. Briggs -- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (1869-1944) / Susan M. Stone -- Octavia Butler (1947-2006) / Keren Omry -- |
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Jeannette Franklin Caines (1938-2004) / Eric Sterling -- Bebe Moore Campbell (1950- ) / Tenille Brown -- Barbara Chase-Riboud (1939- ) / Ginette Curry -- Alice Childress (1916-1994) / Carol Bunch Davis -- Barbara T. Christian (1943-2000) / Sharon L. Barnes -- Pearl T. Cleage (1948- ) / Adrienne Cassel -- Michelle Cliff (1946- ) / Lopamudra Basu -- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) / Patricia Kennedy Bostian -- Wanda Coleman (1946- ) / Terri Jackson Wallace -- Eugenia W. Collier (1928- ) / T. Jasmine Dawson -- Kathleen Conwell Collins (1942-1988) / Chandra Tyler Mountain -- Anna Julia Hayward Cooper (1858-1964) / Gloria A. Shearin -- J. California Cooper (?- ) / Adrienne Carthon -- Jayne Cortex (1936- ) / Ruth Blandón -- Margaret Esse Danner (1910-1984) / Claire Taft -- Edwidge Danticat (1969- ) / Jana Evans Braziel -- Doris Davenport (1949- ) / Denise R. Shaw -- Angela Y. Davis (1944- ) / Deirdre Osborne -- Lucy Delaney (1830-1890) / Dave Yost -- Toi(Nette) Marie Derricotte (1941- ) / Karen S. Sloan -- |
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Alexis De Veaux (1948- ) / Bennie P. Robinson -- Edwina Streeter Dixon (1907-2002) / Kevin L. Cole and Katherine Madison -- Rita Dove (1952- ) / Laura Madeline Wiseman -- Kate Drumgoold (1858?-1898) / Karen S. Sloan -- Shirley Graham DuBois (1896-1977) / Rebecca Walsh -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) / Denisa E. Chatman-Riley -- Grace Edwards-Yearwood (1934?- ) / Jasmin J. Vann -- Zilpha Elaw (1790?-1846?) / Nancy Kang -- Mari Evans (1923- ) / Jessica Allen -- Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979) / Richard A. Iadonisi -- Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) / Joy R. Myree-Mainor -- Carolyn Ferrell (1962- ) / Alex Feerst -- Julia Fields (1938- ) / Jacqueline Imani Bryant -- Julia A. J. Foote (1823-1900) / Ann Beebe -- Patrice Gaines (1949- ) / Amanda J. Davis -- Patricia Joann Gibson (1951- ) / Sarah Estes Graham -- Mercedes Gilbert (1889-1952) / Marlo David Azikwe -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) / Jane M. Barstow -- Marita Golden (1950- ) / DaMaris Hill -- |
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Jewelle Gomez (1948- ) / Josie A. Brown-Rose -- Eloise Greenfield (1929- ) / Elissa Gershowitz -- Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) / Gloria A. Shearin -- Rosa Guy (1925- ) / Julie Ellam -- Beverly Guy-Sheftall (1946- ) / Lynnell Thomas -- Madame Emma Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922) / Lisa Pertillar Brevard -- Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002) / Myisha Priest -- Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965) / Kelly O. Secovnie -- Joyce Hansen (1942- ) / Dorsia Smith -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) / Valerie Palmer-Mehta -- Juanita Harrison (1887-19??) / Sarah Boslaugh -- Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950-2001) / Shamika Ann Mitchell -- Carolivia Herron (1947- ) / Rachelle D. Washington -- Frenchy Jolene Hodges (1940- ) / Katarzyna Iwona Jakubiak -- bell hooks (1952- ) / Peggy J. Huey -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (Sara A. Allen) (1859-1930) / Jeehyun Lim -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) / Warren J. Carson -- Angela Jackson (1951- ) / Raymond Janifer -- Mae Jackson (1946- ) / Heather Hoffman Jordan -- Mattie Jane Jackson (1843-?) / Tabitha Adams Morgan -- |
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Rebecca Cox Jackson (1795-1871) / Joshunda Sanders -- Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813-1897) / Mary McCartin Wearn -- Amelia E. Johnson (1858-1922) / Sathyaraj Venkatesan -- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) / Maria J. Rice -- Helen Johnson (1906-1995) / Wendy Wagner -- Gayl Jones (1949- ) / Helen Doss -- June Jordan (1936-2002) / Roy Pérez -- Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907) / Regina V. Jones -- Adrienne Kennedy (1931- ) / Nita N. Kumar -- Jamaica Kincaid (1949- ) / Maria Mikolchak -- |
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v. 2 -- Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923- ) / Julia Marek Ponce -- Nella Larsen (1891-1964) / Frank A. Salamone -- Kristin Hunter Lattany (1931- ) / David M. Jones -- Andrea Lee (1953- ) / Barbara Boswell -- Helene Elaine Lee (1959- ) / Lena Marie Ampadu -- Jarena Lee (1783?- ) / Christopher J. Anderson -- Audre Geraldine Lorde (1934-1992) / Heejung Cha -- Naomi Long Madgett (1923- ) / Shayla Hawkins -- Paule Marshall (1929- ) / Kalenda C. Eaton -- Sharon Bell Mathis (1937- ) / Loretta G. Woodard -- Victoria Earle Matthews (1861-1898) / Heidi Stauffer -- Colleen J. McElroy (1935- ) / Roxane Gay -- Patricia McKissack (1944- ) / Rebecca Feind -- Terry McMillan (1951- ) / Yolanda Williams Page -- Louise Meriwether (1923- ) / Bridgitte Arnold -- May Miller (1899-1995) / Miranda A. Green-Barteet -- Arthenia J. Bates Millican (1920- ) / Rebecca Feind -- Mary Monroe (1949- ) / Freda Fuller Coursey -- Anne Moody (1940- ) / Meta Michond Cooper -- Opal J. Moore (1953- ) / Kellie D. Weiss -- Toni Morrison (1931- ) / Deborah M. Wolf -- Gertrude Bustill Mossell (1855-1948) / Amanda Wray -- Harryette Mullen (1953- ) / Ordner W. Taylor, III -- Beatrice Murphy (1908-1992) / Judy L. Isaksen -- |
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Pauli Murray (1910-1985) / Christina G. Bucher -- Gloria Naylor (1950- ) / Pratibha Kelapure -- Barbara Neely (1941- ) / A. Mary Murphy -- Diane Oliver (1943-1966) / Joseph A. Alvarez -- Brenda Marie Osbey (1957- ) / Trimiko C. Melancon -- Pat Parker (1944-1989) / Linda Garber -- Suzan-Lori Parks (1964- ) / Marla Dean -- An Petry (1908-1997) / Yolanda Williams Page -- Ann Plato (1820?-1860) / Tinola N. Mayfield -- Connie Porter 91959- ) / Tamra E. DiBenedetto -- Eliza Potter (1820-? ) / Karen C. Summers -- Mary Prince (1788-? ) / Babacar M'Baye -- Nancy Prince (1799-?) / Dave Yost -- Aishah Rahman (1939- ) / Joan McCarty - Alice Randall (1959- ) / Louis M. Palmer, III -- Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849-1916) / Megan K. Ahern -- Jewell Parker Rhodes (?-) / Tatia Jacobson Jordan -- Carolyn Marie Rodgers (1943- )/ Adenike Marie Davidson -- Mona Lisa Saloy (1950- ) / Delicia Dena Daniels -- Sonia Sanchez (1934- ) / Ben Fisler -- Dori Sanders (1934- ) / Chandra Wells -- Mary Seacole (1805-1881) / Nanette Morton -- |
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Fatima Shaik (1952- ) / Sharon T. Silverman -- Ntozake Shange (1948- ) / Cammie M. Sublette -- Ann Allen Shockley (1927- ) / Adriane Bezusko -- Amanda Berry Smith (1837-1915) / Mary G. De Jong -- Anna Deavere Smith (1950- ) / Yolanda Williams Page -- Ellease Southerland (1943- ) / Kate Falvey -- Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) / Rhondda Robinson Thomas -- Barbara Summers (1944- ) / Firouzeh Dianat -- Ellen Tarry (1906- ) / Kevin Hogg -- Claudia Tate (1946-2002) / Angela Shaw-Thornburg -- Mildred D. Taylor (1943- ) / Shawntaye M. Scott -- Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) / Laura Gimeno Pahissa -- Lisa Teasley (1962- ) / Jeremy Griggs -- Lucy Terry (1730-1812) / Debbie Clare Olson -- Joyce Carol Thomas (1938- ) / Elizabeth Malia -- Era Bell Thompson (1905-1986) / Kevin L. Cole -- Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman (1870-? ) / Gerri Reaves -- Ruth D. Todd (1878?-?) / Amy L. Blair -- Mary Elizabeth Vroman (1925-1967) / Jean Forst -- Gloria Wade-Gayles (1938- ) / Cameron Christine Clark -- Alice Walker (1944- ) / Su-lin Yu -- Margaret Walker (1915-1998) / Aimable Twagilimana -- Mildred Pitts Walter (1922- ) / Gerardo Del Guercio -- Marilyn Nelson Waniek (1946- ) / Jacob Nelson Wilkenfeld -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) / Joy M. Leighton -- Dorothy West (1907-1988) / Pearlie Mae Peters -- |
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Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) / Pratibha Kelapure -- Paulette Childress White (1948- ) / Jessica Margaret Brophy / Brenda Wilkinson (1946- ) / Tamara Zaneta Hollins -- Frannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) / Ted Morrissey -- Sherley Anne Williams (1944-1999) / Gretchen Michlitsch -- Harriet E. Wilson (1828?-1863?) / Katie Rose Guest -- Sarah Elizabeth Wright (1928-? ) / Althea Rhodes -- Shay Youngblood (1959- ) / Samira C. Franklin -- Appendix : List of awards and authors -- Bibliography of works -- Index -- About the editor and the contributors. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors -- Encyclopedias.
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American literature -- Women authors -- Encyclopedias.
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American literature -- 20th century -- Encyclopedias.
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African American women authors -- Biography -- Encyclopedias.
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African American women -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Page, Yolanda Williams.
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| ISBN |
0313334293 set alkaline paper |
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9780313334290 set alkaline paper |
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0313341230 vol 1 alkaline paper |
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9780313341236 vol 1 alkaline paper |
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0313341249 vol 2 alkaline paper |
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9780313341243 vol 2 alkaline paper |
