Combining scholarship covering one hundred fifty years of novel writing in the U.S., newly commissioned essays examine eighty African American novels. They include well-known works as well as writings ...

By featuring novels, poetry, short fiction, and drama alongside guidebooks, photographs, and print culture, African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 provides evidence of the literary ...

Often referred to as “the black Raymond Chandler”, Chester Himes’s celebrated cycle of novels have a wit and a philosophy of ...

This was the Golden Age of comic books, when Americans voraciously consumed stories about superheroes, determined detectives and thrilling romances - yet very few featured African American characters.

Discover seven essential American authors whose works have left their mark on the world of literature through their depth, originality and narrative power.

B. Bright, Possible Princess, winner of the Phillis Wheatley Award recognizing the best African-American books and writers in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Children’s literature. Born in ...

The protagonists are a pair of sisters,... Weber's winning record of frothy, scandalous African-American novels (Baby Momma Drama , etc.) continues with his fourth book, a fast-paced mix of ...

Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s Author Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 ...