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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ralph Ellison: an American journey is the first documentary on one of the most gifted and intellectually provocative authors of modern American literature. It establishes Ellison as a central figure in contemporary debates over art, politics, race and nationhood. Narrated by Andre Braugher, the film brilliantly presents the first scenes ever filmed from Ellison's landmark novel, Invisible man. The extended Film version is nothing less than a virtual...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A successful African-American novelist who has made his reputation with a series of romantic novels for women, Shareef Crawford yearns to expand his literary range but is unable to find the essential inspiration, until a book tour brings him home to Harlem.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of an important American cultural intellectual of the twentieth century--Ralph Ellison, author of the masterpiece Invisible Man. In 1953, Ellison's explosive story of a young black man's search for truth and identity catapulted him to national prominence. Ellison earned many honors, but his failure to publish a second novel, despite years of striving, haunted him for the rest of his life. Rampersad, the first scholar given...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful (NPR). Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon's first work of nonfiction looks...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Chester B. Himes has been called 'one of the towering figures of the black literary tradition' (Henry Louis Gates Jr.), 'the best writer of mayhem yarns since Raymond Chandler' (San Francisco Chronicle), and 'a quirky American genius' (Walter Mosley). He was the twentieth century's most prolific black writer, captured the spirit of his times expertly, and left a distinctive mark on American literature. Yet today he stands largely forgotten. In this...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 75
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's New Books: February 2023 Biographies
Children's Special Topics: 2022 SLJ Best Books of the Year_ Nonfiction
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Children's New Books: February 2023 Biographies
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics, and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism of her own literature.
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