African American Authors – Resources in Randall Library’s Collection

Note: Randall Library has many information resources about or by African American authors- these are just a few!

Check the Randall Library online catalog <http://library.uncw.edu/web/research/search.html>

or ask at the Reference Desk for help finding more resources.

The Upperman African American Cultural Center, located in Modular Unit #2 by the Fisher Student Center, also houses a collection of African American materials.

1. Bibliographies

Afro-American literature and culture since World War II : a guide to information sources / Charles D. Peavy

UNCW Reference, PS153 .N5 .P395 ; UNCW General Collection, PS153.N5 P395 c.2

Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975 : a guide to information sources

UNCW Reference, PS153.N5 A357 ; UNCW General Collection, PS153.N5 A357 c.2

Black American women in literature : a bibliography, 1976 through 1987 / by Ronda Glikin

UNCW Reference, PS153.N5 G57 1989

Black authors : a selected annotated bibliography / James Edward Newby

UNCW Reference, Z1215 .N57 1991

The Negro author, his development in America to 1900

UNCW General Collection, PS153.N5 L65 1964

The pen is ours : a listing of writings by and about African-American women before 1910 with secondary bibliography to the present / compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin, Cynthia D. Bond

UNCW General Collection, PS153.N5 Y44 1991

On the web:

http://www.worldbook.com/features/aawriters/html/index.html

2. A selection of works by major authors, alphabetically by last name

Note: This is just a selected list- if you don’t see your favorite author here, check the library catalog!

Chinua Achebe (African author)

Things fall apart / Chinua Achebe ; with an introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah

UNCW General Collection, PR9387.9.A3 T5 1992b

No longer at ease / by Chinua Achebe

UNCW General Collection, PR9387.9.A3 N6 1969

Maya Angelou

I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou

UNCW General Collection, PS3551.N464 Z466 1993

Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now / Maya Angelou

UNCW General Collection, PS3551.N464 W68 1993

James Baldwin

Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin ; illustrated by Jim Sharpe

UNCW General Collection, PS3552.A45 G55 1981

Notes of a native son / James Baldwin

UNCW General Collection, E185.61 .B2 1990

Claude Brown

The Children Of Ham / Claude Brown

UNCW General Collection, HV1437.H37 B75 1976

Manchild in the promised land / Claude Brown

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.B86 A3 1965

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

The marrow of tradition / Charles W. Chesnutt ; introduction by Robert M. Farnsworth

UNCW General Collection, PS1292.C6 M3 1969

The conjure woman, and other conjure tales / Charles W. Chesnutt ; edited and with an introduction by Richard H. Brodhead

UNCW General Collection, PS1292.C6 A6 1993

Eldridge Cleaver

Soul on fire / Eldridge Cleaver

UNCW General Collection, BV4935.C54 A34

Soul on ice / Eldridge Cleaver ; with an introduction by Maxwell Geismar

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.C6 A3 1969

Countee Cullen

My Soul's High Song : The Collected Writings Of Countee Cullen, Voice Of The Harlem Renaissance / edited And With An Introduction By Gerald Early

UNCW General Collection, PS3505.U287 A6 1991

On these I stand : an anthology of the best poems / of Countee Cullen ; selected by himself and including six new poems never before published

UNCW General Collection, PS3505.U287 A6 1947

Frederick Douglass

Life and times of Frederick Douglass : his early life as a slave, his escape from bondage, and his complete history : an autobiography

UNCW General Collection, E449 .D7382 1993

An appeal to Congress for impartial suffrage [electronic resource] / Frederick Douglass

NetLibrary ebook, available through the Randall Library catalog

Rita Dove

On The Bus With Rosa Parks : Poems / Rita Dove

UNCW General Collection, PS3554.O884 O52 1999

The Darker Face Of The Earth : A Verse Play In Fourteen Scenes / by Rita Dove

UNCW General Collection, PS3554.O884 D68 1994

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The complete poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar / with an introd. to "Lyrics of lowly life" by W. D. Howells

UNCW General Collection, PS1556 .A1 1980

Folks from Dixie / by Paul Lawrence Dunbar ; with ill. by E. W. Kemble

UNCW General Collection, PS1556 .F6 1969

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison

UNCW General Collection, PS3555.L625 I5 1990

Shadow And Act / Ralph Ellison

UNCW General Collection, PS3555.L625 E4 1966

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Plum bun : a novel without a moral / Jessie Redmon Fauset ; with an introduction by Deborah E. McDowell

UNCW General Collection, PS3511.A864 P57 1985

The chinaberry tree; a novel of American life, by Jessie Fauset

UNCW General Collection, PS3511.A864 C45 1969

Nikki Giovanni

The Collected Poetry Of Nikki Giovanni, 1968-1998 / Nikki Giovanni

UNCW General Collection, PS3557.I55 A5 2003

Gemini : An Extended Autobiographical Statement On My First Twenty-Five Years Of Being A Black Poet / Nikki Giovanni

UNCW General Collection, PS3557.I55 Z5 1971

Alex Haley

Roots / Alex Haley

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.H24 A33

Alex Haley's Queen : The Story Of An American Family / Alex Haley And David Stevens

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.H24 A32 1994

Virginia Hamilton

Her Stories : African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, And True Tales / told By Virginia Hamilton ; Illustrated By Leo & Diane Dillon

UNCW Juvenile Dewey, 398.2 H18h

The People Could Fly : American Black Folktales / told By Virginia Hamilton ; Illustrated By Leo And Diane Dillon

UNCW Juvenile Dewey, 398.2 H18p 1985

Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin In The Sun; A Drama In Three Acts

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.A515 R3

Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry. Edited, with critical backgrounds, by Robert Nemiroff. Introd. by Julius Lester

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.A515 B5 1972

Langston Hughes

Five Plays By Langston Hughes / edited With An Introduction By Webster Smalley

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.U274 A19 1968

The Ways Of White Folks / Langston Hughes

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.U274 W35 1962

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God : A Novel / Zora Neale Hurston ; With A New Foreword By Mary Helen Washington

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.U789 T639 1990

Dust Tracks On A Road : An Autobiography / Zora Neale Hurston ; Edited And With An Introduction By Robert Hemenway

UNCW General Collection, PS3515.U789 Z465 1984

James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man / James Weldon Johnson ; Edited With An Introduction By William L. Andrews

UNCW General Collection, PS3519.O2625 A95 1990

God's Trombones; Seven Negro Sermons In Verse, / by James Weldon Johnson, Drawings By Aaron Douglas, Lettering By C.B. Falls

UNCW General Collection, PS3519.O2625 G6

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from the Birmingham jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreword by Bernice King

UNCW General Collection, F334.B69 N446 1994

A Testament Of Hope : The Essential Writings Of Martin Luther King, Jr. / edited By James Melvin Washington

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.K5 A25 1991

Yusef Komunyakaa

Pleasure dome : new and collected poems / Yusef Komunyakaa

UNCW General Collection, PS3561.O455 P58 2001

Dien Cai Dau / Yusef Komunyakaa

UNCW General Collection, PS3561.O455 D5 1988

Alain Locke

The New Negro / edited By Alain Locke ; With A New Preface By Robert Hayden

UNCW General Collection, NX512.3.N5 N4 1969

The Negro And His Music ; Negro Art : Past And Present / Alain Locke

UNCW General Collection, ML3556.L6 N4 1988

Claude McKay

Home to Harlem / by Claude McKay ; foreword by Wayne F. Cooper

UNCW General Collection, PS3525.A24785 H65 1987

Banjo : a story without a plot / by Claude McKay

UNCW General Collection, PS3525.A24785 B3 1957

Toni Morrison

Beloved : a novel / by Toni Morrison

UNCW General Collection, PS3563.O8749 B4 1987

Jazz / Toni Morrison

UNCW General Collection, PS3563.O8749 J38 1992

Mildred D. Taylor

Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; Frontispiece By Jerry Pinkney

UNCW Juvenile Fiction, T216r 1997

The Road To Memphis / Mildred D. Taylor

UNCW Juvenile Fiction, T216ro

Jean Toomer

Jean Toomer : selected essays and literary criticism / edited, with an introduction, by Robert B. Jones

UNCW General Collection, PS3539.O478 A6 1996

Cane [by] Jean Toomer; with a foreword by Waldo Frank

UNCW General Collection, PS3539.O478 C3 1951

Alice Walker

The color purple / Alice Walker

UNCW General Collection, PS3573.A425 C6 2003

Once : poems / by Alice Walker

UNCW General Collection, PS3573.A425 O5 1976

Phillis Wheatley

The poems of Phillis Wheatley / edited with an introduction by Julian D. Mason, Jr

UNCW General Collection, PS866 .W5 1989

Poems on various subjects, religious and moral [electronic resource] / Phillis Wheatley

NetLibrary ebook, available through the Randall Library catalog

August Wilson

The piano lesson / August Wilson

UNCW General Collection, PS3573.I45677 P54 1990

Fences : a play / by August Wilson ; introduction by Lloyd Richards

UNCW General Collection, PS3573.I45677 F4 1986b

Richard Wright

Black Boy (American Hunger) : A Record Of Childhood And Youth / Richard Wright ; With An Introduction By Jerry W. Ward, Jr

UNCW General Collection, PS3545.R815 Z5 1993

Native Son And How "Bigger" Was Born / Richard Wright ; With An Introduction By Arnold Rampersad

UNCW General Collection, PS3545.R815 N26 1993

Malcolm X

The autobiography of Malcolm X / with the assistance of Alex Haley ; introduction by M.S. Handler ; epilogue by Alex Haley

UNCW General Collection, E185.97.L5 A3 1973

By any means necessary; speeches, interviews, and a letter, by Malcolm X. Edited by George Breitman

UNCW General Collection, E185.61 .L577