Subject: African American authors › Biography

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• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (4,389 copies)
• Black Boy by Richard Wright (1,690 copies)
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou (874 copies)
• In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker (673 copies)
• Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou (536 copies)
• Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou (444 copies)
• All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou (418 copies)
• Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (P.S.) by Zora Neale Hurston (395 copies)
• Bad Boy: A Memoir by Walter Dean Myers (213 copies)
• Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings… by Zora Neale Hurston (195 copies)
• The SAME RIVER TWICE: A Memoir by Alice Walker (194 copies)
• The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart by Alice Walker (178 copies)
• A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou (166 copies)
• Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life (Wounds of Passion) by bell hooks (122 copies)
• Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel… by James Campbell (54 copies)
• Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James Campbell (52 copies)
• Zora Neale Hurston: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY by Robert E. Hemenway (52 copies)
• Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale… by Lucy Hurston (49 copies)
• James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming (44 copies)
• Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and… by John Edgar Wideman (36 copies)
• The Richer, the Poorer by Dorothy West (36 copies)
• Zora Hurston and the Chinaberry Tree (Reading Rainbow Book) by William Miller (35 copies)
• Forty-Three Septembers: Essays by Jewelle Gomez (33 copies)
• Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius : A Portrait of the Man a… by Margaret Walker (31 copies)
• Pagan Spain by Richard Wright (30 copies)
• James Baldwin: Artist on Fire by William J. Weatherby (30 copies)
• Crabcakes: A Memoir by James Alan McPherson (30 copies)
• Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Ranaissance by Cary Wintz (26 copies)
• Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley (21 copies)
• Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson by James Weldon Johnson (21 copies)
• Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale… by Mary E. Lyons (19 copies)
• The Fire This Time by Randall Kenan (19 copies)
• A long way from home by Claude McKay (18 copies)
• James Baldwin: The Legacy by Quincy Troupe (13 copies)
• The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright by Michel Fabre (10 copies)
• Jump at de sun : the story of Zora Neale Hurston by A. P. Porter (9 copies)
• Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women… by Deborah G. Plant (8 copies)
• FROM HARLEM TO PARIS: Black American Writers in France,… by Michel Fabre (8 copies)
• Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance : A… by Wayne F. Cooper (8 copies)
• The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness by Cynthia Earl Kerman (6 copies)
• In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: A Black Family… by Wade Hudson (6 copies)
• Coming through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in… by C. Eric Lincoln (6 copies)
• Maya Angelou (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (6 copies)
• Cornerstones: An Anthology of African American Literature by Melvin Donalson (6 copies)
• Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of… by Melba Joyce Boyd (5 copies)
• Maya Angelou: The Poetry of Living by Margaret Courtney-Clarke (4 copies)
• The furious passage of James Baldwin by Fern Marja Eckman (4 copies)
• African-American Writers (To Z of African Americans) by Philip Bader (3 copies)
• Selected Black American authors: An illustrated… by James A. Page (3 copies)
• Maya Angelou: Greeting the Morning (Gateway Biographies) by Sarah E. King (3 copies)

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