ANTHOL AME LIT V2&GRAPES WRATH&ONE FLEW OVR

Literature & Fiction

Claxton, Mae Miller

McMichael, George

Leonard, James S.

Lyne, Bill

Mallon, Anne-Marie

Mitchell, Verner D.

History & Criticism

Longman

This leading, two-volume anthology represents America¿s literary heritage from the colonial times of William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet to the contemporary era of Saul Bellow and Alice Walker. Volume II begins with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson and moves through Toni Morrison. Other featured authors include Julia Alvarez, Billy Collins, W.E.B. DuBois, Stephen Dunn, Nikki Giovannu, Susan Glaspell, June Jordan, Jamaica Kincaid, Audre Lorde, Gary Snyder, and Kurt Vonnegut. For readers of American literature.

Anthology of American Literature, Vol. 2

PRENTICE/HALL

Literary Sisters: Dorothy West and Her Circle, A Biography of the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes, to whom she proposed marriage. She later became friends with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who encouraged her to finish her second novel, The Wedding, which became the octogenarian author’s first bestseller.Literary Sisters reveals a different side of West’s personal and professional lives—her struggles for recognition outside of the traditional literary establishment, and her collaborations with talented African American women writers, artists, and performers who faced these same problems. West and her “literary sisters”—women like Zora Neale Hurston and West’s cousin, poet Helene Johnson—created an emotional support network that also aided in promoting, publishing, and performing their respective works. Integrating rare photos, letters, and archival materials from West’s life, Literary Sisters is not only a groundbreaking biography of an increasingly important author but also a vivid portrait of a pivotal moment for African American women in the arts.

Biographies & Memoirs

Davis, Cynthia

Arts & Literature

Rutgers University Press

Harlem Renaissance writer Dorothy West led a charmed life in many respects. Born into a distinguished Boston family, she appeared in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, then lived in the Soviet Union with a group that included Langston Hughes, to whom she proposed marriage. She later became friends with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who encouraged her to finish her second novel, The Wedding, which became the octogenarian author’s first bestseller.
Literary Sisters reveals a different side of West’s personal and professional lives—her struggles for recognition outside of the traditional literary establishment, and her collaborations with talented African American women writers, artists, and performers who faced these same problems. West and her “literary sisters”—women like Zora Neale Hurston and West’s cousin, poet Helene Johnson—created an emotional support network that also aided in promoting, publishing, and performing their respective works. Integrating rare photos, letters, and archival materials from West’s life, Literary Sisters is not only a groundbreaking biography of an increasingly important author but also a vivid portrait of a pivotal moment for African American women in the arts.

Images in the River: The Life and Work of Waring Cuney (Afro-Texans)

Community & Culture

Texas Tech University Press

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