African American Males the central theme of each chapter focuses on specific strategies that He is the author of The African American Writers Handbook and The Wisdom of http://www.cbbooksdistribution.com/males1.html
Extractions: This is the story of a Black female who was not on drugs, didn't prostitute for a living, or participate in any number of typical negative images that America seems to feel we must have in order for our story to be important enough to be told! So begins: A humorous look at life from a woman who has made errors in her life but survived with her sanity intact. Beatrice Joyner looks at her life objectively and without bitterness as she shares her wisdom. She reminds us to celebrate our victories as we climb the mountain of life giving us survival techniques while exploring the joys of living. Her wisdom comes across with humor and graciousness as she makes you realize you aren't alone in this crazy world. What's the cux of Nice Guys and Players? Women have dual needs that must be met in a relationship. All women must be satisfied mentally and physically. Why can't a Nice Guy fully satisfy a woman? he doesn't generate any sexual heat. Why can't a Player fully satisfy a woman? He lacks discipline and is emotionally distant. To fully satisfy a woman, a man must have characteristics of both the Nice Guy and the Player. In his book, Rom Wills outline what these men need to do to become more balanced. In reality, most men, nice or not, fail to attract women. Rom Wills shares the secret to attracting women. What is that secret? Women choose the men. He also explains how women categorize men, traits women find appealing in men, and share the rules for meeting beautiful women
African Americans - Literature century female African American author. Furnishes long excerpts and often specific authors Angelou, Maya A short biography written for the United http://www.africanamericans.com/Literature.htm
Margaret Walker Biography It has also led the author into controversy in 1988, Walker found It alsocelebrates the tradition of African American folktales and expression. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/walker/bio.htm
Extractions: Margaret Walker: Biographical Note Donna Allego D r. Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander's contributions to American lettersfour volumes of poetry, a novel, a biography, and numerous critical essaysmark her as one of this country's most gifted Black intellectuals. These accomplishments, as well as fellowships and awards that she has earned, garner her much deserved praise, but they are even more remarkable given that she achieved most of them after 1943 when she was a college professor and a wife and mother of four children. Although the cumulative demands of these pursuits would have broken the spirit of others, Walker prevailed, and in so doing reached beyond her advantaged middle class background to strengthen her race by leaving them (and all of us) a nurturing literary legacy. Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father, a well educated minister, and mother, a music teacher, provided an environment in which their daughter thrived. Walker completed her B.A. at Northwestern University (Illinois) when she was only nineteen, and while living in Chicago, she was affiliated with several important writing groups. During the depression, she worked for the Federal Writers' Project and contributed a dialect piece, "Yalluh Hammuh," whose folk hero would later appear in For My People (1942). As a member of the South Side Writers Group, Walker was a close colleague of Richard Wright. Walker completed her M.A. at the University of Iowa by writing
Pennsylvania Center For The Book Literary Map Of PA Before relying on such information to fill the body of the bio, Was thisauthor influenced by a specific historic event or a pivotal moment in his/her http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/LitMap/tips.html
Troy University FR Library Nineteenth century literature criticism various volumes by author. African American authors, 1745-1945 bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook http://fwrlibrary.troy.edu/7/literature/africanamerican.htm
Extractions: African American Literature RESOURCES: SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. back to page top Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding African american Literature. DATABASE SEARCH TERMS RESULTS Academic Search Premier african american literature Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals." Provides a number of relevant items. african american literature JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" ( click here for details Provides a great number of excellent items.
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH Selected Black, African and Caribbean authors A bioBibliography. author,title and genre index. Masterpieces of African American Literature. http://library.msstate.edu/reference/blackhis.asp
Extractions: CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH @ THE MSU LIBRARY General Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History . New York: REF 185 .E54 1996. Approximately 2/3 of the entries are biographical in nature. Other entries concern areas of cultural achievements, professions, events, and historical eras. The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era Blacks in America: Biographical Essays . James M. McPherson. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. REF Z 1361 .N39 B56. Biographical Essays topically organized. See Part VIII. The Negro in America: A Bibliography Notable Black American Women . Ed. Jessie Cartney Smith. Detroit: Gale, 1996. 3 vols. REF E 185.96 .N68 1992. 500 entries arranged alphabetically by name. Includes fields of achievement and place/events index. Oxford Companion to African American Literature . Ed. William Andrews, et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. REF PS153 N5 O96 1997. Information on 400 authors ranging from Phyllis Wheatley and Charles Chestnut to Gwendolyn Brooks and Walter Mosely. Entries for 100 titles provide plot summaries. Includes sections on black contributions to genres and influences on American Literature. Identities and Issues in Literature The African American Encyclopedia . 8 vols. Michael Williams. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1993. REF E 185.A253. History and experience of African Americans in the United States. Brief entries with bibliographies on individual authors. Historical survey of literature with recommended readings.
BIOGRAPHY In reading about the coming of age of a favorite author, potential writers maybegin to africanamerican Young Adult Biography In Search of Self, in http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/biography.html
Extractions: Young Adult Literature Page Children's Literature Page Author biography Foregrounding Women in History With the increased emphasis on composition in schooling, it is important to recognize that the reading-writing connection might be encouraged through having students see how authors and illustrators talk about the relationships between their lives and their work in autobiographies. In reading about the coming of age of a favorite author, potential writers may begin to see connections and possibilities for their own work. Biographies, as well as autobiographies, provide insights into a creator's work; and, where both are available, it could be informative to compare the two. A parallel writing activity for young people might be to interview each other about a specific incident in each student's own life and then compare the subject's own written autobiographical account with that of his or her student biographer. The works listed below should prove helpful in exploring a variety of standpoints on the writing of biography and autobiography. Young people may find biography/autobiography of great interest if it is presented with enthusiasm and honesty. Some may find the
Multicultural Literature Resources Know that the Dictionary of Literary biography has some ethnicspecific African American Authors, 1745-1945 a bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/multicultural.html
Extractions: Library Catalog Find: Articles Databases e-Journals MyLibrary ... Individual Libraries Reference Services This guide contains tips and strategies for locating biographical and critical information on American writers grouped by ethnicity (e.g., African-American, Jewish-American, etc.), as well a bibliography of resources, both in print and online. Since it focuses primarily on reference materials, it is necessarily selective. The Library Catalog and Find Databases will list and/or provide access to far more material than can be listed below. CONTENTS Ascertaining Ethnicity Using LC Subject Headings for Ethnic Literatures Full Text Online Resources Databases ... Reference Sources by Ethnicity Ethnic-American Literatures Ascertaining Ethnicity Surnames are not always indicative of ethnicity, and often it can be difficult to compile a list of authors by ethnic background. To identify writers of a specific ethnic ancestry, try the following strategies: Search the Literature Resource Center: Click on "Authors by Type" Scroll down to the "Author Ethnicity" menu box and select one of the four categories.
Extractions: SEARCH 2. Select Search Type Products (e.g. InfoTrac) Site (e.g. Customer Service) Login Sign Up (new customers) Home Locations Executive Bios Trade Shows Home Alacritude Dialog Factiva ... Yahoo Home Who We Are What We Do How We Do It ... Contact Us Home Archives Library of the Year Logo Library ... Need a Speaker? Home International Support Catalog Catalog Catalog Help How to Order ... Imprint Publishers Billing/Fulfillment Returns Support Technical Resources Training Resources Market Your Library Market Your Library Get Connected Find Yourself in the Library ... InfoTrac Discussion List document.write(url); Sept. 16, 1950 - Awards Selected: Carnegie Foundation fellowship for Africa, 1970-71; Phelps fellowship, Yale Univ, 1970-71; Mellon fellowships, Cambridge University, 1973-75, and National Humanities Center, 1989-90; grants from Ford Foundation, 1976-77 and 1984-85, and National Endowment for the Humanities, 1980-86; A. Whitney Griswold fellowship, 1980; Rockefeller Foundation fellowships, 1981 and 1990; MacArthur Prize fellowship, MacArthur Foundation, 1981-86; Yale Afro-American teaching prize, 1983; award from Whitney Humanities Center, 1983-85; Award for creative scholarship, Zora Neale Hurston Soc, 1986; Woodrow Wilson National Fellow, 1988-89 and 1989-90; Amer Book Award and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Race Relations, both for
Author Research Pathfinder - Snohomish High School Library When searching for an author, start with the last name. For a book by an author, There are also encyclopedias on specific subjects such as http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/SHS-pages/Library/author_research.htm
Extractions: Snohomish High School Library 1316 Fifth Street Snohomish, WA 98290 Phone: 360-563-4047 Library home page: http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/library.htm Librarian Email: Volkert.Volkersz@sno.wednet.edu Author Research Pathfinder S.H.S. LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG http://192.168.221.249:9000/webopac/main?siteid=1 Author Search Tips When searching for an author, start with the last name. For a book by an author, click the Author button. For a book about the author, click the Subject button. To see if the author is listed somewhere else in a book description, click the Keyword button. In this case you may want to try last name only, or first/middle/last in the proper order. Some authors are not fully cataloged in our library (yet), so you may also want to search for a specific book title. Type in the title , and click the Title button. Subject search terms include: authors, books, literature, English, American, etc.
Extractions: A Research Guide to Resources About African American Women by M. Burdex This is intended to be a bibliographical guide TO reference materialspoints of departures, etc.rather than books ABOUT African American women. It includes mostly items that are regularly found in college or university libraries, as well as in some large/main or central branches of public libraries. No Attempt has been made to list every reference source on African American women. The intent is to cite and annotate those major items that will facilitate ones research on African American women. One important key to understanding and using the CSUN library - in fact any library - effectively is the catalog. The catalog is the source wherein one is able to find the holdings of the library listed by authors name or title, and also subject matter. This would be true if youre searching for full length books or monographs. If however, you are searching for periodicals at CSUN, you would only be able to search by
Selections: Authors And Texts http//redfrog.norconnect.no/poems/poetpage?author=Gwendolyn+Brooks english It also gives more specific details on Toni Morrison as the prize recipient. http://www.salzburgseminar.org/ASC/csacl/progs/lit98/group8/C.htm
Extractions: Home A B - C C . SELECTIONS: AUTHORS (listed alphabetically by authors' first names) AND TEXTS I. African American Alice Walker Gwendolyn Brooks James Baldwin Jean Toomer http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/toomer.html A descriptive bibliography. Links to many sites of other black writers. http://members.aol.com/bonvibre/toomer0.html
Biography & Autobiography > Specific Groups > Lesbians The longawaited first biography of the author of The Cancer Journals, anAmerican icon of womanhood, poetry, African American arts, and survival. http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/BUS/r_BIO50304/p_1/Lesbians.htm
Extractions: This brave memoir chronicles Pratt's struggle to overcome the repressive traditions of Southern womanhood and live her life honestly. It chronicles her youth, her marriage, her eventual decision to come out as a lesbian, and her life with transgendered activist and author Leslie Feinberg. Minnie Bruce... ( Continua
Extractions: Printer-friendly guide This Guide Contains Information on: HOW TO FIND BOOKS ON BOBCAT BY SUBJECT RESEARCH GUIDES BIBLIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARIES ... INDEXES 1. HOW TO FIND BOOKS BY BOBCAT BY SUBJECT BobCat can be searched for books and other materials on African American literature with a subject search [s=1].
Pathfinder For Literary Research Look for volumes of the Understanding Series, which deals with specific major For online text and author biography see Rivendell s American Literature http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/litpath.html
Extractions: Pathfinder for Literary Criticism The following are reference tools you will find useful in any literary research. Choose the ones that make the most sense for your particular research problem and examine their tables of contents and indexes. DATABASES ROCK for Lit Crit and Literary Biography! netlibrary in ACCESS PA POWER LIBRARY offers access to hundreds of e-books containing critical essays! NoveList in the ACCESS PA POWER LIBRARY Don't miss GaleNet's Literature Resource Center Biography Resource Center (Look for Gale's Literary Index on the to right of the page!) Biography Reference Bank (select More Information for critical articles, interviews, and reviews.) Remember to check the patron catalog . We have many books of collected criticism that you may borrow located in the 800s! NEW!
Annotated Bibliographies -- African-American Music And Musicians Choral Music by African American Composers A Selected Annotated Bibliography . Pros The book descriptions are helpful when looking for specific http://music.lib.byu.edu/RefGuide/bibliographies/afroamerican.html
Extractions: Floyd, Samuel A., and Marsha J. Reisser. Black Music Biography: An Annotated Biography. Floyd, Samuel A., and Marsha J. Reisser. Black Music in the United States. ... Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians.
Research Center African American Literature Book Club Contains author profiles, book reviews, Listing of authorspecific websites that provide biographical and http://research.bcls.lib.nj.us/result.phtml?topic=42
Readers' Advisory Service Looking for a specific sidekic k or series character? African AmericanLiterature Book Club Complete author index, interviews, articles, http://www.albanypubliclibrary.org/rs/readersadvisory.htm
Extractions: Fax 518.449.3386 Click on the topic below to jump to online resources dedicated to helping you find the books and movies you want to read and watch. Stay tuned for new links! BOOK REVIEWS BIOGRAPHIES MOVIES AFRICAN AMERICAN ... HORROR BOOK REVIEWS IN MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS New York Times Book Review - one of the most popular sources for bestseller lists, the NYT Book Review includes reviews, interviews and commentary on the latest fiction and nonficti on releases. Requires free registration.
