African American Studies Resource Guide: Biography

A two volume set which provides a biographical overview and a survey and discussion of the writer's main works.

This volume compiles data on African American artists and craftsmen culled from exhibition catalogues, reviews, periodicals, and books to span the period of the 18th century slave craftsmen to the time of the volume's publication in 1973.

A bibliography of poets and published black playrights, born or with a primary residence in the United States.

Coverage spans from the first African American woman poet, Lucy Terry (1746) to 1991. Authors are listed alphabetically, with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

This three volume set compiles "excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years."

"A bibliography, with biographical notes, of books by and about Afro-American writers associated with New England in the collection of Afro-American literature, Suffolk University, Museum of Afro-American History, Boston African American National Historic Site." Compiled by Edward Clark, Professor Emeritus of English, Suffolk University, and founder of Suffolk's Collection of African American Literature.

Brief biographical data and bibliography of works by authors published by the Broadside Press of Detroit, Michigan.

The goal of this volume was to analyze and index the contents of over 250 collective biographies, dating from 1837-1982, in order to provide "references to biographical information on 1900 black American writers," who are not to be found in standard biographical sources. The scope includes not only creative writers, but also biographers, autobiographers, historians, journalists, literary critics, book illustrators, scholars, and bibliographers.

A biographical dictionary of artists of African descent. Each entry includes biographical and career information as well as a brief illustrated discussion of the artists work. The primary focus is on artists of the twentieth century, however some nineteenth century artists are included. African Americans make up the majority of the selected artists, with artists from Africa, the Caribbean and other areas of the African diaspora making up the remainder.

This volume includes biographical information, the full-text of speeches, and background information on the events and people contributing to the circumstances of each speech. The book is arranged alphabetically by speaker, with an ethnicity index, a speech category index, and a keyword index.