Black Women Writers at Work
By Maya Angelou , Gwendolyn Brooks , Nikki Giovanni , Toni Morrison , Alice Walker , and others
Edited by Claudia Tate
Read by Allyson Johnson
Unabridged
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2 Formats: Library CD
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2 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9798212395359
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ISBN: 9798212395373
| Runtime: | 9.51 Hours |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis De Veaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margret Walker, and Sherley Anne Williams, the book highlights the practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.
Responding to questions about why and for whom they write, and how they perceive their responsibility to their work, to others, and to society, the featured playwrights, poets, novelists, and essayists provide a window into the connections between their lives and their art.
Finally available for a new generation, this classic work has an urgent message for readers and writers today.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
Author
Author Bio: Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was a singer, actress, dancer, activist, filmmaker, writer, and mother. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies she wrote several volumes of poetry, including “On the Pulse of the Morning” for the inauguration of President Clinton. She was given a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, and in 2010 President Barack Obama awarded her the Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.
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Author Bio: Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author Bio: Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024) was an American poet, writer, activist, commentator, and educator. She was the recipient of more than sixty personal awards, and her works also earned awards. She published her first book of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, in 1968, after which she became one of America’s most widely read poets, writing many books of poetry for children and adults. She called herself, “a Black American, a daughter, a mother, a professor of English.” She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Fisk University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.
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Author Bio: Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor. In 2012, President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She also received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Pulitzer Prize for literature, an American Book Award, the Norman Mailer Prize, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Condorcet Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, and the Anisfield Wolf Book Award, among others. She wrote twelve novels, including Beloved, which won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was made into a major motion picture starring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.
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Author Bio: Alice Walker
Alice Walker is a distinguished author and activist who has written dozens of books, including novels, poems, essays, short stories, and children’s books. She was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her novel The Color Purple, which also won the National Book Award in 1983. Walker’s other books include The Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy. More than fifteen million copies of her books have been sold, and her work has been translated into more than two dozen languages. As an activist, she focuses on issues of inequality, poverty, and social injustice.
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Details
Details
| Available Formats : | Library CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Nonfiction/Literary Collections |
| Runtime: | 9.51 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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