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		AngelaBenson.com ^Votes:0 AngelaBenson.com Contest Time! November 16th, 2007 To celebrate the official release of the trade paperback edition of The Amen Sisters , I’m giving away 10 free autographed copies. Winners will be chosen from those who comment on this blog post. No need to register in order to comment. In case you already have a copy of The Amen Sisters , I’m going to sweeten the pot and also give away 10 free passes to my January writing tele-seminar, “Write that Book.” Winners will be chosen from those who comment on this blog post. No need to register in order to comment. If writing is not your thing, you’ll also have a chance to win one of two $25 Amazon.com gift certificates. Winners will be chosen from those who comment on this blog post. No need to register in order to Read More Go to Site


		Author Valerie Wilson Wesley: Biography ^Votes:0 Novels \| Mysteries \| Message Board \| Appearances \| Book Clubs \| Email \| Home Join Valerie's mailing list! Biography Valerie Wilson Wesley’s latest mystery is Dying in the Dark . She is also the author of the novels Always True to You in My Fashion and Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do for which she received the 2000 award for excellence in adult fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and six other Tamara Hayle Mysteries . Her mysteries include When Death Comes Stealing , Devil's Gonna Get Him , Where Evil Sleeps , No Hiding Place , Easier to Kill , The Devil Riding and Playing My Mother's Blues . All of her books have been Blackboard bestsellers, and When Death Comes Stealing was nominated for a Shamus award. The Tamara Hayle Mysteries are Read More Go to Site

		Elizabeth Johnson Harris: Life Story - Duke University Special Collections Library ^Votes:0 Elizabeth Johnson Harris Life Story, 1867-1923 An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library at Duke University Original documents - scanned images and transcriptions About Elizabeth Harris Read the original documents About the collection at Duke More information about related collections Statement on use and reproduction About the digitized version of the collection Related Sites: African American Women: On-line archival collections Retrieving African-American Women's History: Manuscript Sources at Duke Women's Studies Resources at Duke Special Collections Library, Duke University About Elizabeth Johnson Harris . Elizabeth Harris was born in Augusta, Georgia, in 1867, to parents who had been slaves. She married Jacob Walker Harris in 1883 at the age of 15 and was the mother o Read More Go to Site

		Langston Hughes ^Votes:0 Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar . Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Langston Hughes (1902-1967) African-American poet, novelist, and playwright, who became one of the foremost interpreters of racial relationships in the United States. Influenced by the Bible, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Walt Whitman , Hughes depicted realistically the ordinary lives of black people. Many of his poems, written in rhythmical language, have been set to music. Hughes's poems were meant 'to be read aloud, crooned, shouted and sung'. "Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tendrerly Black like me. (from Dream Variations , 1926) James Langston Hughes was born Read More Go to Site

		Raynetta's World of Romance ^Votes:0 Meet Raynetta Ma?ees, Author of Romance. Click to find out about new releases Click one of these titles for more of Raynetta's World of Romance Click here "ALL FOR LOVE" was voted a finalist as the Best Contemporary Ethnic Romance of 1996 by the annual Affaire de Coeur magazine reader poll. Click here or on the book cover above to learn more about this exciting novel. Page Design Copyright ?NickiAngela, Inc. 1998 If you haven't already read one of Raynetta's novels you can purchase one right now! Search: Books Popular Music Classical Music Video Enter keywords... The banner below is neither endorsed nor supported by the owner of this site! Read More Go to Site

		Salon \| The Salon Interview: Toni Morrison ^Votes:0 T A B L E + T A L K Why is there such a backlash against memoirs? Join the discussion in the Books section of Table Talk R E C E N T L Y Gore Vidal By Chris Haines (01/14/98) Russell Banks By Cynthia Joyce (01/05/98) Haruki Murakami By Laura Miller (12/16/97) Allan Gurganus By Dwight Garner (12/08/97) Mark Leyner By Laura Miller (12/08/97) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - INTERVIEW ARCHIVE R E V I E W S Now and then By Joseph Heller A rambling, frequently amusing memoir about a childhood spent on Coney Island, from the author of "Catch-22." (02/02/98) t o n i M o r r i s o n T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR TALKS ABOUT HER NEW BOOK, "PARADISE," WHAT SHE LEARNED FROM HER MARRIAGE AND WHY O.J. SIMPSON IS INNOCENT. BY ZIA JAFFREY \| I met Toni Morrison at Read More Go to Site

		Shirley G. Ware HomePage ^Votes:0 SHIRLEY GERALD WARE! THE AUTHOR Welcome! You Are Visitor : since April 2, 2006 SHIRLEY'S NEW NOVEL SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES SHIRLEY'S POETRY VISIT FRESH! Online Literary Magazine Shirley Gerald Ware AUTHOR The Author Welcome, I am Shirley Gerald Ware, the author of three published books. All three of my books ?Just Kids,? ?Somebody Too? and ?The Final Goodbye? are available online at Amazom.com, from the publishers or you can order an autographed copy from the author. Besides, publishing books, Shirley is the publisher of Fresh! Literary Magazine, an online and quarterly publication of local and worldwide adults and teens writers of short stories, poetry and articles. Fresh! Literary Magazine was founded ten years ago and has since demonstrated tremendous growth worldwide. We?re nonprofit an Read More Go to Site

		Tony Morrison Biography ^Votes:0 Here we present the biography of Toni Morrison, the first black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, she also has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Chloe Anthony Wofford was born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio (a northern community located near Lake Erie) as what was to be the second of four children of George Wofford and Ramah Willis Wofford. Her parents had moved to Ohio from the South to escape racism and to find better opportunities in the North. George found employment as a shipyard welder, but often worked three jobs in order support his family. He was a hardworking and dignified man who took a great deal of pride in the quality of his work, so that each time he welded a perfect seam he'd also weld his name onto the side of the ship. He also made sure to be well-dresse Read More Go to Site

		Zora Neale Hurston, American Author ^Votes:0 b. 1891 d. 1960 Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston was an American author who wrote stories, novels, anthropological folklore and an autobiography. She died in 1960 but her works have increased in popularity and are passing the test of time with staying power. She was a unique artist and scientist who produced for us a large body of work that stands equal to any body of work in American Literature and world literature. About writing she wrote: Anyway, the force from somewhere in Space which commands you to write in the first place, gives you no choice. You take up the pen when you are told, and write what is commanded. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. Works that are readily available by her include: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) Mules and Men (1935) Tell My Horse ( Read More Go to Site

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