African American authors -- Biography
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- Dorothy West's paradise, a biography of class and color, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by John Edgar Wideman ; afterword by Malcolm Wright
- The lives of Jean Toomer, a hunger for wholeness, Cynthia Earl Kerman, Richard Eldridge
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- Crabcakes, James Alan McPherson
- Zora Neale Hurston, a literary biography, Robert E. Hemenway ; with a foreword by Alice Walker
- From Harlem to Paris, Black American writers in France, 1840-1980, Michel Fabre
- Buck, a memoir, MK Asante
- Claude McKay, rebel sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance : a biography, Wayne F. Cooper
- The chicken chronicles, sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir, Alice Walker
- In search of our mothers' gardens, womanist prose, by Alice Walker
- Visible man, the life of Henry Dumas, Jeffrey B. Leak
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- The furious passage of James Baldwin, Fern Marja Eckman
- How it feels to be colored me, Zora Neal Hurston
- Richard Wright, a documented chronology, 1908-1960, Toru Kiuchi and Yoshinobu Hakutani
- Lyrics of sunshine and shadow, the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite, Eleanor Alexander
- James Baldwin, a biography, David Leeming
- An angry-ass black woman, Karen E. Quinones Miller
- Maya Angelou, the poetry of living, [compiled and photography by] Margaret Courtney-Clarke ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- Richard Wright, the life and times, Hazel Rowley
- William Wells Brown, a reader, edited by Ezra Greenspan
- What it is, race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues, Clifford Thompson
- Deported to paradise, selected essays, Edgar Nkosi White
- Zora Neale Hurston's final decade, Virginia Lynn Moylan
- Zora Neale Hurston, a biography of the spirit, Deborah G. Plant
- Exiled in Paris, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and others on the Left Bank, James Campbell
- James Baldwin's Turkish decade, erotics of exile, Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- Along this way, James Weldon Johnson ; introduction by Sondra K. Wilson
- Alice Walker: author and social activist, by Stephanie Fitzgerald
- Harlem Renaissance lives from the African American national biography, general editors, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
- Opening the road, Victor Hugo Green and his Green Book, by Keila V. Dawson ; illustrated by Alleanna Harris
- Maya Angelou, adventurous spirit : from I know why the caged bird sings (1970) to Rainbow in the cloud, the wisdom and spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), Linda Wagner-Martin
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