Black women writers at work / edited by Claudia Tate.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tate, Claudia, editor.

Continuum (Firm), publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women authors--Interviews.

African American women authors.

Women authors, American--Interviews.

Women authors, American.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Authors, American--20th century--Interviews.

Authors, American.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States.

Genre:

Interviews.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (inscription) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Tate, Claudia (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 213 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 1983.

Summary:

Contains a collection of interviews with fourteen black women authors

Contents:

Maya Angelou

Toni Cade Bambara

Gwendolyn Brooks

Alexis Deveaux

Nikki Giovanni

Kristin Hunter

Gayl Jones

Audre Lorde

Toni Morrison

Sonia Sanchez

Ntozake Shange

Alice Walker

Margaret Walker

Sherley Anne Williams.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1983 by Claudia Tate"--verso of title page.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks. Inscription from author to Banks: "October 1, 1983. To Joanna -- Herein lie words of vision. Read and share the sight. Best Wishes, Claudia Tate". Dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0826402321 :

OCLC:

9112096