Details

Subject(s)

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

Editor

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

"Shari Dorantes Hatch, editor, second edition."

Bibliographic references

• "Appendix F: References" (pages 1053-1063) ; "Appendix G: Key to references" (pages 1065-1978).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original version

First edition published as: African-American writers : a dictionary. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Other title(s)

African American writing

ISBN

• 9781682177181
• 1682177181

LCCN

2019295611

OCLC

1027689605

RCP

N - S

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