Details

Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—Dictionaries [Browse]
• African Americans—Intellectual life—Dictionaries [Browse]

Editor

• Conn, Bryan [Browse]
• Bynum, Tara [Browse]

Distributor

Credo Reference (Firm) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Encyclopedias [Browse]

Summary note

A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, African American Writers examines a multitude of black cultural leaders from the 18th century to the present. Updated through the present time, this new second edition covers the role and influence of African American cultural leaders from all walks of life Carefully written articles, with illustrations, cover the important events in a writer's life, education, major works, honors and awards, and family and important associates. A comprehensive, easy to use source that will complement the reference collection of any public, high school or university library, and will prove useful to all university humanities and African American studies reference collections.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Preface to the second edition, 2009
• Introduction to the third edition
• Entries A-Z
• Primary documents: About the primary documents
• Appendix A: Chronology of writers
• Appendix B: Chronology of firsts
• Appendix C: Timeline
• Appendix D: Writers by genre
• Appendix E: Writers by occupation
• Appendix F: References
• Appendix G: Key to references.

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ISBN

• 1-78684-951-8
• 1-68217-719-X

OCLC

• 1081003094
• 1065032798

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