- Terry McMillan / by Fish, Bruce.; Fish, Becky Durost.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Profiles the African American author who survived a violent, impoverished childhood and earned fame as the author and screenwriter of "Waiting to Exhale" and "How Stella Got Her Groove Back."- Subjects: McMillan, Terry; Novelists, American; African American women novelists; African American novelists; McMillan, Terry.; Authors, American.; African Americans; Women;
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© 2001., Chelsea House Publishers,
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- Toni Morrison / by Blashfield, Jean F.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-107) and index.- Subjects: Morrison, Toni; Novelists, American; African American women novelists; African American novelists; Morrison, Toni.; Authors, American.; Women; African Americans;
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© c2001., Chelsea House Publishers,
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- Toni Morrison / by Jones, Amy Robin,1958-;
Includes bibliographical references (p.40) and index.- Subjects: Morrison, Toni; Novelists, American; African American women novelists; African American novelists; Morrison, Toni.; Authors, American.; Women; African Americans; Nobel Prizes;
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© 2001., Child's World,
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- Zora Neale Hurston : Harlem renaissance writer / by
Marsico, Katie,
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. 102) and index.The lure of the lying sessions -- Roots of a remarkable imagination -- Learning harsh lessons -- Eager for an education -- Harlem Renaissance woman -- An anthropological adventurer -- New horizons and unexpected farewells -- Folklore fiction at its best -- The end to a storyteller's story -- Timeline -- Further reading -- Places to visit -- Web sites -- Select bibliography -- Glossary.
- Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale; Novelists, American; Folklorists; African American novelists; African American women; Hurston, Zora Neale.; Authors, American.; African Americans; Women;
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© 2008., ABDO Pub. Co.,
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- Zora Neale Hurston : African American writer / by Cannarella, Deborah.;
Includes bibliographic references (p. 40) and index.Profiles Zora Neale Hurston, whose childhood love of stories led her to a successful career as a folklorist and author of poems, novels, short stories, and plays.The center of the world -- Wanderings -- "Love of talk and song" -- Genius of the South -- Timeline -- Glossary.- Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale; Novelists, American; Folklorists; African American novelists; African American women; Hurston, Zora Neale.; Authors, American.; African Americans; Women;
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© 2002., Child's World,
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- Zora Neale Hurston / by
Bryant, Philip S.
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Discusses the life and career of the twentieth-century African-American writer, Zora Neale Hurston.Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.- Subjects: Hurston, Zora Neale; Novelists, American; Folklorists; African American novelists; African American women; Hurston, Zora Neale.; Authors, American.; African Americans; Women;
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© c2003., Raintree,
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- Contemporary African American novelists : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook / by Nelson, Emmanuel S.(Emmanuel Sampath),1954-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. {513}-514) and index.- Subjects: American fiction; American fiction; Novelists, American; American fiction; African American novelists; American fiction; African Americans in literature;
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© 1999., Greenwood Press,
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- John Grisham : best-selling author / by
Ishizuka, Kathy.
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Discusses the life, career, and influence of the popular writer of legal thrillers.Includes bibliographical references (p. 110) and index.- Subjects: Grisham, John; Legal stories, American; Novelists, American; Grisham, John.; Authors, American.; Grisham, John; Legal stories; American novelists;
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© c2003., Enslow Publishers,
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- Toni Morrison : telling a tale untold / by Haskins, James,1941-;
Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-140) and index.Superior people -- What it's like to be a grown-up -- Developing a canon of Black work -- Telling a tale untold -- America's storyteller -- Being there before the light arrives -- To write the book I'd like to read.- Subjects: Morrison, Toni; Novelists, American; African American novelists; Morrison, Toni.; Authors, American.; African Americans; Women;
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© c2002., Twenty-First Century Books,
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- Toni Morrison / by Patrick-Wexler, Diane.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 47) and index.Discusses the personal life and literary achievements of the woman who, in 1993, became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.- Subjects: Morrison, Toni; Novelists, American; African American novelists; Morrison, Toni.; Authors, American.; Women; African Americans;
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© c1997., Raintree Steck-Vaughn,
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