African American authors -- Biography
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- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- The chicken chronicles, by Alice Walker
- Triangular road, a memoir, Paule Marshall
- Selected from I know why the caged bird sings and The Heart of a woman, Maya Angelou
- Punch me up to the gods, Brian Broome
- Mom & me & mom, Maya Angelou
- The chicken chronicles, sitting with the angels who have returned with my memories : Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses, & Babe : a memoir, Alice Walker
- Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, Herb Boyd
- Black boy, Richard Wright
- Black boy (American hunger), a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; foreword by Edward P. Jones
- Sure, I'll be your Black friend, notes from the other side of the fist bump, Ben Philippe
- Voices in the mirror, an autobiography, Gordon Parks
- James Baldwin's Turkish decade, erotics of exile, Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- Claude McKay, the making of a Black Bolshevik, Winston James
- James Baldwin, artist on fire : a portrait, by W.J. Weatherby
- Buck, a memoir, MK Asante
- A song flung up to heaven, Maya Angelou
- Black boy (American hunger), a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright, with an introduction by Jerry W. Ward, Jr
- Invisible, the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster, Stephen L. Carter
- The house where my soul lives, the life of Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham
- Street poison, the biography of Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford
- Paul Robeson, a life of activism and art, Lindsey R. Swindall
- My soul has grown deep, classics of early African-American literature, John Edgar Wideman
- America made me a black man, a memoir, Boyah J. Farah
- The education of Kevin Powell, a boy's journey into manhood, Kevin Powell
- Jazz, jail and God, an impressionistic biography of Bob Kaufman, by Mel Clay
- Gather together in my name, Maya Angelou
- What it is, race, family, and one thinking Black man's blues, Clifford Thompson
- Broken places & outer spaces, finding creativity in the unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor
- Street poison, the biography of Iceberg Slim, Justin Gifford
- Invisible, the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster, Stephen L. Carter
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Broken places & outer spaces, finding creativity in the unexpected, Nnedi Okorafor
- In battle for peace, the story of my 83rd birthday, W.E.B. Du Bois ; with comment by Shirley Graham ; introduction by Manning Marable
- Dust tracks on a road, the restored text established by the Library of America, Zora Neale Hurston ; with a foreword by Maya Angelou
- Black boy, (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, Richard Wright ; with a forword by Edward P. Jones
- James Baldwin, the last interview and other conversations
- Richard Wright, the life and times, Hazel Rowley
- Folklore, memoirs, and other writings, Zora Neale Hurston
- Collected essays & memoirs, Albert Murray ; Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin, editors
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- James Baldwin, a biography, David Leeming
- Harlem speaks, a living history of the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Cary D. Wintz
- W.E.B. Du Bois, James Neyland
- How we fight for our lives, a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Letter to my daughter, Maya Angelou
- Invisible, the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster, Stephen L. Carter
- Mom & me & Mom, Maya Angelou
- James Baldwin, the FBI file, edited and with an introduction and notes by William J. Maxwell
- Alice Walker, a life, Evelyn C. White
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