African American authors -- Biography
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African American authors -- Biography
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- My soul has grown deep, classics of early African-American literature, [collected by] John Edgar Wideman
- I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
- Maya Angelou, adventurous spirit : from I know why the caged bird sings (1970) to rainbow in the cloud, wisdom and spirit of Maya Angelou (2014), Linda Wagner-Martin
- Mom & me & Mom, Maya Angelou
- Visible man, the life of Henry Dumas, Jeffrey B. Leak
- The way forward is with a broken heart, Alice Walker
- Triangular road, a memoir, Paule Marshall
- 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
- Hoop roots, John Edgar Wideman
- James Baldwin, living in fire, Bill V. Mullen
- The education of Kevin Powell, a boy's journey into manhood, Kevin Powell
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- Black boy (American hunger), a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. Jones
- A song flung up to heaven, by Maya Angelou
- Invisible, the forgotten story of the Black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster, Stephen L. Carter
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, Herb Boyd
- The power of pride, stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance, Carole Marks and Diana Edkins
- 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
- The collected autobiographies of Maya Angelou, Maya Angelou
- Kadir Nelson, by Lisa M. Bolt Simons
- Navigate your stars, Jesmyn Ward
- Act like you know, African-American autobiography and white identity, Crispin Sartwell
- Speak, so you can speak again, the life of Zora Neale Hurston, Lucy Anne Hurston and the estate of Zora Neale Hurston
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- William Wells Brown, an African American life, Ezra Greenspan
- The Frederick Douglass story
- Maya Angelou, "diversity makes for a rich tapestry", Donna Brown Agins
- Buck, a memoir, MK Asante
- The last American aristocrat, the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams, David S. Brown
- Richard Wright, a biography, Debbie Levy
- Never would have made it, the rise of Tyler Perry, the most powerful entertainer in black America (and what it really took to get him there), Melvin Childs
- Maya Angelou, and still I rise, American Masters Pictures
- Black boy, Richard Wright
- Gather together in my name, Maya Angelou
- Tyler Perry, a biography of a movie mogul, Marty Gitlin
- Maya Angelou, a glorious celebration, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Rosa Johnson Butler and Richard A. Long ; foreword by Oprah Winfrey
- America made me a black man, a memoir, Boyah J. Farah
- Maya Angelou, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom
- Street poison, the life and times of Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford
- Paul Robeson, a life of activism and art, Lindsey R. Swindall
- Harlem speaks, a living history of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Cary D. Wintz
- African-American writers, Amy Sickels
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; with a forward by Edward P. Jones
- Coretta Scott King award books, using great literature with children and young adults, Claire Gatrell Stephens
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Gather together in my name, Maya Angelou
- James Baldwin, the FBI file, edited and with an introduction and notes by William J. Maxwell
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