Notable African American writers

Summary: Compiles essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, and writers of nonfiction from colonial America to today. Includes overviews of each author's biography and literary career as well as ready-reference listings of their major works in all genres.

Record details

ISBN: 1587653621
ISBN: 9781587653629
Physical Description: 1 online resource (3 volumes (xxxvi, 1350 pages)) : portraits.
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Publisher: Pasadena, California : Salem Press, Inc., [2006]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 1266-1302) and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:	v. 1. Maya Angelou-Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- v. 2. Nikki Giovanni-Ishmael Reed -- v. 3. Sonia Sanchez-Al Young, essays, appendixes, indexes.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only.
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2020).