41. 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

About Us Online Book Store Self-Published Authors Customer Service Meet the Staff Book Reviews Site Map AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE INTERESTS DON'T NEED NO SOAPS Author: Bea Joyner 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. Retails:$10.00 NICE GUYS AND PLAYERS Author: Rom Wills 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

42. 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

Home Heritage History Civil Rights ... Organizations Web This Site Hot Topics Data on African Americans African Americans Dating Resources Marvin Gaye: one of the most successful and popular during the early years of Motown African American History Month - Celebrate! ... A historical overview of black filmmaking and the portrayal of blacks in American film In The News Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Speaks on National African American History Month February 18, 2005 FBI Assistant Director Cassandra M. Chandler Crossing Color Lines and Fulfilling Dreams, Black History Month February 22, 2005 Literature African American Literature and Culture Society Comprehensive newsletters by the AALCS featuring information on the contributions of well-known African American writers and poets. http://www.atomicage.com/aalcs/ African American Literature Handout A comprehensive handout about African-American literature from the 1700's-present. http://www.wilpaterson.edu/courses/eng150/aahis.htm

43. 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

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

44. 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

45. 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

Troy University Regional Library. Literary Bibliography. Updated 04/25/05. African American Literature RESOURCES: Journal articles from academic databases ( click here for section one Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books ( click here for section two Critical and biographical Web sites ( click here for section three 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.

46. 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

About the Libraries Collections Of Special Interest Online Resources ... Services Shortcuts Online Catalog Indexes/Databases Electronic Journals Ask a Librarian ... Print Version myLibrary Login 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.

47. 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

VANDERGRIFT'S BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAGE 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

48. 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

Library Catalog Find: Articles Databases e-Journals MyLibrary ... Individual Libraries Finding Resources on the Multicultural Literature of the United States A Research Guide and Bibliography 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.

49. Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Henry Louis Gates He argues that most systems used to judge art are culturally specific. In addition to editing The Norton Anthology of African American Literature in http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/gates_h.htm

Thomson Gale Learning Thomson.com SEARCH 2. Select Search Type Products (e.g. InfoTrac) Site (e.g. Customer Service) Press Room About Us Contact Us Site Map ... Careers Order Center: Login Sign Up (new customers) About Thomson Gale Home Locations Executive Bios Trade Shows Title List Changes for Licensed Databases Home Alacritude Dialog Factiva ... Yahoo Business Development Home Who We Are What We Do How We Do It ... Contact Us Press Room Home Archives Library of the Year Logo Library ... Need a Speaker? Outside U.S. and Canada Home International Support Product Information: Catalog Catalog Catalog Help How to Order ... Imprint Publishers Customer Service: Billing/Fulfillment Returns Customer Resource Center Support Technical Resources Training Resources Free Resources: Market Your Library Market Your Library Get Connected Find Yourself in the Library ... InfoTrac Discussion List document.write(url); Black History Henry Louis Gates Sept. 16, 1950 - Keyser, West Virginia, United States Nationality : American Occupation : scholar Occupation : college teacher Occupation : critic Occupation : writer Occupation : chairperson 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

50. 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

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 You can search by keyword, author, title, subject, and other things, or you can do a “power search,” also known as a Boolean search (AND, OR, BUT NOT). 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.

51. Ain’t I A Woman? African American Women - A Research Guide To Resources About A rather than books ABOUT African American women. It includes mostly items that articles written by an author with an individual title or on a specific http://www.csun.edu/~htang/ainti.html

"Ain’t I A Woman?" African American Women 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 one’s 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 author’s name or title, and also subject matter. This would be true if you’re searching for full length books or monographs. If however, you are searching for periodicals at CSUN, you would only be able to search by

52. News, Articles, Book Reviews Content - Minority Professional Network (MPN) author bio. This article is an excerpt from the ebook by Bret Searles titled The 7 Building and strengthening African American family is the first http://www.minorityprofessionalnetwork.com/articledata.asp?id=616

53. 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

Home A B - C C . SELECTIONS: AUTHORS (listed alphabetically by authors' first names) AND TEXTS I. African American Alice Walker http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~melindaj/alice.html http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/ http://www.yall.com/culture/quill/walker/walker2.html Possessing the Secret of Joy. Gwendolyn Brooks http://redfrog.norconnect.no/poems/poetpage?author=Gwendolyn+Brooks#english Two poems by Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool and A Sunset of the City in English and Spanish. http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/fpl/resources/poetry/poetryquiz/brooks.html . Features a poem When You Have Forgotten Sunday: A Love Story. http://www.iu13.k12.pa.us/donegal/dms/kif/GWEN.HTM A very short biography. James Baldwin http://www.bridgesweb.com/baldwin.html http://www.artswire.org/ocountry/9.htm http://www.mme.tcd.ie/~m.carley/Books/baldwin.html Excerpts from 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

54. 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

PowerSearch: Libri Italiani English Books DVD Reparto Selezionato Artists, Architects, Photographers Business Childhood Memoir Cooking ... Women Altri Reparti Architecture Art Computers Cooking ... True Crime Lesbians Specific Groups S/He Autore: Minnie Bruce Pratt Alyson Publications, March 2005 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 The Assault of Laughter: A Daughter's Journey Back to Her Lesbian Mother Autore: Melissa Hart Windstorm Creative Ltd., February 2005 When Melissa's mother, Maggie, comes out, she packs up her three kids and leaves the safety of the only life she's ever known. But a short time later, Melissa's father has Maggie declared unfit and Maggie loses custody of Melissa, Katie and Tim. Caught between... ( Continua Hungry Ghosts Autore: Roxanne Reaver Xlibris Corporation, May 2004

55. New York University | Bobst Library: Research Assistance -- Rg68b.html It is also possible to search for criticism of a specific author or one of his/herworks, eg, Includes author index. Modern African American Writers. http://library.nyu.edu/research/rg68b.html

HOME COLLECTIONS RESEARCH ASSISTANCE SERVICES ... Printer-friendly guide African-American Literature RG#68b 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]. Examples for a broad search are: s= American literature Afro-American authors s= American drama Afro-American authors s= American fiction Afro-American authors s= American poetry Afro-American authors Another type of search is: s= Afro-American novelists It is also possible to search for criticism of a specific author or one of his/her works, e.g., s= Baldwin, James, 1924- Criticism and interpretation s= Baldwin, James, 1924- Go tell it on the mountain For more information please consult the library of Congress Subject Headings [LCSH]. Copies of LCSH are available in all reference centers and the catalog area in the atrium. 2. RESEARCH GUIDES

56. 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

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. Why is literary criticism worth studying? Read this article by Steven Hale, Georgia Perimeter College. Why analyze literature? Read this article by Professor John Lye, Brock University, for tips and rationale. Our handout on What is Literary Criticism? 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!

57. 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

Annotated Bibliographies by Topic (ML 128 and VARIOUS) African-American Music and Musicians Berry, Lemuel. Biographical Dictionary of Black Musicians and Music Educators. Brown, Linda Rae. Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters. See Catalogs of Music Libraries, Societies and Exhibitions Carter, Madison H. An Annotated Catalog of Composers of African Ancestry Clifford, Mike. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music. 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. Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600-1920. Walker-Hill, Helen. Piano Music by Black Women Composers: A Catalog of Solo and Ensemble Works.

58. 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

59. High School Literature - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library Browse by author name or by subject category including African American (many slave There are links to critical essays on specific works, information on http://www.multcolib.org/homework/hslit.html

skip navigation links Log in Search this site About the library ... Homework Center High School Literature General High School Literature Banned Books Week Electronic Texts Literature by Period or Century ... Individual Poets General High School Literature Booklist http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm The Web site of the American Library Association's Booklist provides access to reviews of books for adults, young adults, and children, written by librarians. The overall ALA Web site is searchable, and you can browse the reviews by category (Adult, Youth, Nonfiction, etc.). From January 1996 to the present; reviews appear approximately one month after their appearance in the print version of Booklist. BookWire http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/ BookWire calls itself "the first place to look for book information," and it does offer an impressive number of features, including reviews from The Quarterly Black Review of Books, The Boston Book Review, The Asia Pacific Review, Computer Book Review, and others. The overall site is searchable by author, title, or publisher name, and the individual review sources can be browsed. There is a nice Frequently Asked Questions list about book publishing available also. A Celebration of Women Writers http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/writers.html

60. 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

READERS' SERVICES HOME READERS’ ADVISORY TOOLS READING LISTS or "if you like...try..." HOW TO GET A LIBRARY CARD BIBLIOTECH ONLINE EDITION TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ...coming soon... Albany Public Library 161 Washington Ave, Albany NY 12210 Phone 518.427.4300 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. Washington Post - Online book reviews, interviews, literary criticism, essays and more. Los Angeles Times - Book news and reviews, including first chapters of new titles appearing regularly. QBR.com: The Black Book Review Online - Online reviews, interviews, and book news by and for African Americans; includes online discussion forums, recommended reading and bestseller lists. Salon.com

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