Alice Walker / Tony Gentry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gentry, Tony.

Contributor:

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.

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

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Black Americans of achievement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walker, Alice, 1944---Juvenile literature.

Walker, Alice.

Walker, Alice, 1944-.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography--Juvenile literature.

Authors, American.

African American authors--Biography--Juvenile literature.

African American authors.

African Americans--Biography.

Genre:

Literature.

Biographies.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

105, [6] pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, [©1993].

Summary:

Examines the life and work of the author of "The Color Purple" and other works which focus on the lives of black women.

Contents:

"To Hell with Dying"

The Name of Home

"The Nature of This Flower Is To Bloom"

In Love and Trouble

Living by the Word

Meridian

The Purple Flood

A More Encompassing Embrace.

Notes:

"Senior Consulting Editor Nathan Irvin Huggins Director W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research Harvard University"--Title page.

Contains introductory essay ("On Achievement" pages 8-9) by Coretta Scott King.

Includes bibliographical references (page 102) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is "First Printing".

ISBN:

0791018849

9780791018842

0791019136

9780791019139

OCLC:

25551660

Online:

Internet sites about American authors

Internet sites about African Americans