Description |
1 online resource (xv, 325 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 76 |
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 76
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Contents |
William Attaway -- William Blackwell Branch -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Frank London Brown -- Owen Dodson -- Ralph Ellison -- Lorenz Graham -- Shirley Graham -- Shirley Graham -- Robert Hayden -- Chester Himes -- Naomi Long Madgett -- Willard Motley -- Beatrice M. Murphy -- Effie Lee Newsome -- Carl Ruthven Offord -- Louis Peterson -- Ann Petry -- J. Saunders Redding -- William Gardner Smith -- Melvin B. Tolson -- Margaret Walker -- Theodore Ward -- Dorothy West -- Chancellor Williams -- Richard Wright -- Frank Yerby -- Appendix I. The Hatch-Billops collection ; The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center ; The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -- Appendix II. PHYLON (Fourth Quarter, 1950), The Negro in literature: the current scene |
Summary |
Essays on black American writers, both major and minor are presented, including poets, dramatists and playwrights. Many of these prominent black writers, whose works are taught and written about today, came to the forefront of the American literary scene during this period. The essays in this volume try to capture the nuances of the lives and literature of that period |
Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323) |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
African American authors -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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American literature -- African American authors -- Bio-bibliography
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American literature -- African American authors -- Dictionaries
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American literature -- 20th century -- Bio-bibliography
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American literature -- 20th century -- Dictionaries.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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African American authors.
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American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature.
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Authors, American.
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Genre/Form |
Bio-bibliography.
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Biographies.
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Dictionaries.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
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Harris, Trudier.
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LC no. |
88021423 |
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