Best African American Writers - April 2024

Great Short Stories by African-American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions)

Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," Charles W. Chesnutt's "Uncle Wellington’s Wives," and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "The Scapegoat." Other stories include "Becky" by Jean Toomer; "Afternoon" by Ralph Ellison; Langston Hughes's "Feet Live Their Own Life"; and "Jesus Christ in Texas" by W.... [Read More]

• ASIN: 048647139X
• UPC: 800759471393
• ASIN: 048647139X
• ISBN: 9780486471396
• Brand: Blaisdell, Bob (EDT)
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review   “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today   “A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
• ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

• ASIN: 0316380318
• ASIN: 0316380318
• ISBN: 0316380318
• Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

The African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print

• ASIN: 0345423275
• ASIN: 0345423275
• ISBN: 0345423275
• Manufacturer: One World

African-American Voices: Writers Poster Set of 16

Let the voices of wisdom and experience speak to your students to inspire, motivate, and challenge. Includes quotes from contemporary and historical writers and educators : Colson Whitehead Alice Walker Nikki Giovanni Frederick Douglass Maya Angelou Langston Hughes Dorothy West Marva Collins Richard Wright Gwendolyn Brooks Mary McLeod Bethune Countee Cullen Rita Dove James Baldwin Octavia Butler Zora Neale Hurston ©2018. Middle school, high school. Sixteen 11 x 17 posters. Cardstock, NOT laminated.

• ASIN: 0756060516
• ASIN: 0756060516
• ISBN: 0756060516
• Brand: Teacher's Discovery
• Size: 11 x 17 Inch
• Manufacturer: Teacher's Discovery

I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life—great friends, family, and successful career—aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house, she finds herself on a wild journey t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524762318
• ASIN: 1524762318
• ISBN: 1524762318
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Perfect Peace: A Novel

Daniel Black's Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was born a boy. I made you a girl. But that ain't what you was supposed to be. So, from now on, you gon' be a boy. It'll be a little strange at first, but you'll get used to it, and this'll be over after while." From this point forward, his life becomes a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0312571658
• ASIN: 0312571658
• ISBN: 0312571658
• Brand: Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Becoming

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
• ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
• Manufacturer: Crown

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing

A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars.Not since Terry McMillan’s Breaking Ice have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume. A stellar collection of works from more than fifty hot names in fiction, Gumbo represents remarkable synergy. Edited by bestselling luminaries Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, this collection spans new and previously published tales of love and luck, inspiration and violation, hip new worlds and hallowed h... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0767910419
• ASIN: 0767910419
• ISBN: 0767910419
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present

In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering together the most gifted black writers of our time - from 1967 to the present - Naylor has assembled a rich and varied collection of stories. The portrait that emerges of the African-American experience in the post-Civil Rights era is stirring, compe... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316599239
• ASIN: 0316599239
• ISBN: 0316599239
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a 97-year-old ex-slave who became a preacher. Lucy A.Delaney's From the Darkness Cometh the Light or Struggles for Freedom (c. 1891) records a former slave's achievements in the quarter-century after the end of the Civil War. Kate Drumgoold and Annie L.Burton also describe their su... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0195060830
• ASIN: 0195060830
• ISBN: 0195060830
• Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

Diamonds and Pearl (A Diamonds Novel)

From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl.They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big Stone. Although the flashy, fast-paced nature of the streets calls to Pearl, she’s been brought up to look but not touch. But when a young hustler named Diamonds crawls up from the swamps of Louisiana and sets up shop in New York City, everything Pea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250102618
• ASIN: 1250102618
• ISBN: 1250102618
• Brand: St Martin s Griffin
• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives (African American)

In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration embarked upon a project to interview 100 former American slaves. The result of that unique undertaking is this collection of authentic firsthand accounts documenting the lives of men and women once held in bondage in the antebellum South.In candid, often blunt narratives, elderly former slaves recall what it was like to wake before sunrise and work until dark, enduring whippings, branding, and separations from one’s spouse and children, suffer the horrors of slave auctions and countless other indignities, an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486409120
• UPC: 800759409129
• ASIN: 0486409120
• ISBN: 0486409120
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Are You Still Down: Standalone

“ It was all a Dream”Rashaad Wilson always dreamed of going to the NBA since he was five years old. The raw talent that he possessed only came around once in a generation. Rashaad, with the gift God gave him, had a plan to get him, his girlfriend, and his friends out the hood where the rough streets of Chicago have taken their fair share of lives, until the unthinkable happens, and his dreams are ripped from his life, along with the people who mean the most to him. Wanting to run away from all of his troubles, he seeks solace overseas, throwing himself into the game, making his home and th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07S6KBZVH
• ASIN: B07S6KBZVH
• Manufacturer: Dream Writers Publishing Group, LLC

Booker T. Washington - African American Author & Leader - Classroom Poster

Booker T. Washington - African American Author & Leader - Classroom Poster 12" x 18" Classroom Poster Printed on High Quality Paper - PosterEnvy EXCLUSIVE! That means you won't find it anywhere else!

• ASIN: B00AI62L7Q
• UPC: 799491507821
• ASIN: B00AI62L7Q
• Brand: PosterEnvy
• Size: 12 x 18 Inch
• Manufacturer: PosterEnvy

Great Short Stories by African-American Writers

A collection of short stories from influential African-American authors, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica

• UPC: 10850907
• Rating: 5.0

Aws African Writers: God's Bits of Wood New Cover (Paperback)

In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels

• UPC: 25674067
• Rating: 4.0

The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

"A ... collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century, ... offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil

• UPC: 54643151
• Rating: 5.0

Barack Obama Books: Barack Obama Adult Coloring Book: One of the Best American Presidents of All Time and Chill Politician, Acclaimed Lawyer and Legendary Writer Inspired Adult Coloring Book (Paperbac

Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the

• UPC: 779864209

American Short Story Masterpieces : A Rich Selection of Recent Fiction from America's Best Modern Writers

This collection of thirty-six classic short stories from the fifties to the eighties features works by authors such as James Baldwin, Barry Hannah, Bernard Halamud, Flannery O'Connor, Philip Roth, Anne Beattie, and Tobias

• UPC: 446464
• Rating: 5.0

The New New Journalism : Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft

A collection of interviews and dialogues with eighteen leading nonfiction writers sheds new light on the ways in which the authors perfect their craft, as well as how they conduct interviews, gather information, and decide

• UPC: 2699693
• Rating: 4.0

100 Best African American Poems, The

Award-winning poet and writer Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary

• UPC: 12337656
• Rating: 4.0

African American Writers and Journalists - eBook

African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the 1740s by a slave named Lucy Terry to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist

• UPC: 628911728

This Is Not Chick Lit : Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers

A celebration of some of America's finest contemporaary, provocative writers, featuring new short stories by Francince Prose, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Jennifer Egan. This is not Chick Lit is a much needed reminder that, for even

• UPC: 4935440
• Rating: 3.0

If I Can Cook/You Know God Can : African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes

Acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange offers this delightfully eclectic tribute to black cuisine as a food of life that reflects the spirit and history of a people. With recipes such as "Cousin Eddie's Shark with Breadfruit"

• UPC: 708208326
• Rating: 4.0