Meet the black women writers who Lived Their Dreams -from the early years to modern times Margaret Walker Alexander Maya Angelou Toni Cade Bambara Gwendolyn Brooks Octavia Butler Lucille Clifton Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson Jessie Redmon Fauset Nikki Giovanni Lorraine Hansberry Frances E. W. Harper Zora Neale Hurston Harriet Jacobs Audre Lord Paule Marshall Terry McMillan Toni Morrison Ann Petry Ntozake Shange Sojourner Truth Alice Walker Ida B. Wells-Barnett Dorothy West Phillis Wheatley

 

This book was recognised by the Parents' Choice Award.

This book is part of a book series called Black Stars .

There are 176 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by John Wiley and Sons Ltd .

BRENDA WILKINSON is a recipient of a School Library Journal Best Children's Book Award, an American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults Award, and a New York Times Book Review Outstanding Children's Book of the Year Award. JIM HASKINS has written more than one hundred nonfiction books for young readers, including Diary of a Harlem School Teacher; his collaboration with Rosa Parks on her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story; The Harlem Renaissance; and Black Eagles: African Americans in Aviation. He is Professor of English at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and the winner of numerous awards, including the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Award for the body of his work, the Carter G. Woodson Award, and the Coretta Scott King Book Award.

This book has the following chapters: THE EARLY YEARS. Phillis Wheatley. Sojourner Truth. THE CIVIL WAR YEARS AND RECONSTRUCTION. Harriet Jacobs. Frances E. W. Harper. Ida B. Wells-Barnett. INTO THE NEW CENTURY. Jessie Redmon Fauset. Zora Neale Hurston. Dorothy West. Ann Petry. MODERN TIMES. Margaret Walker Alexander. Gwendolyn Brooks. Maya Angelou. Paule Marshall. Lorraine Hansberry. Toni Morrison. Nikki Giovanni. Alice Walker. Octavia Butler. Ntozake Shange. Terry McMillan. Chronology. Bibliography. Picture Credits. Index.