Pace University Library - Researching An Author find your author profiled in a reference book with a more specific scope. Examples include African American authors, 17451945 A bio-biographical Critical http://www.pace.edu/library/pages/instruct/birnbaum/author.html
African-American Literature Contemporary authors A biobibliographical guide to Search Everything or by author, title, or subject African American Literature AfricaIn literature Afro http://www.rmc.edu/directory/offices/library/academic_research_guides/afroamlit/
Extractions: This work is designed to compliment the multiple volume American Writers . It contains entries on over thirty African American writers. Each entry begins with a biographical sketch of the author, followed by a series of critical passages, and concludes with a selected bibliography. It also provides a chronology of African-American Literature.
Bio. AALBC Founder The much touted website features author profiles, book excerpts s discovery of a hungry African American book buying up with other websites for specific projects http://aalbc.com/bio.htm
Extractions: AALBC.com Home Page More About AALBC.com Some might say for Troy Johnson, founder of the African American Literature Book Club, that his new found love for literature came late in life. But for all of us long time bibliophiles and newcomers alike, the emergence of AALBC ( http://www.aalbc.com ) four years ago [1997] was right on time. The much touted website features author profiles, book excerpts, poetry, on-line discussion boards, chat sessions, contests, and information about upcoming events. In the last few years AALBC.com has received a fair amount of media attention. The New York Times referred to AALBC.com as the most successful online service that specializes in books for African Americans. And Black Issues Book Review called AALBC.com a true smorgasbord for those who love African American Literature. Troy Johnson is the founder and webmaster of the African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com). Johnson was raised in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School . Johnson also holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University , an MS from Polytechnic University , an MBA from and currently works as a Technology Project Manager for a New York City investment bank.
African Americans - Literature It also provides biographical information about famous africanamerican authors. and read some of the author s writing http//www.wic.org/bio/mangelou.htm Cullen http://www.africanamericans.com/Literature.htm
Margaret Walker - Biography the deepest desire of the author to record What translates is a specific, unparalleled beauty and tales that were integral to African American oral expression http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/walker/bio.html
Extractions: Biography Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents, the Reverend Sigismund C. Walker, a Methodist minister and an educator, and Marion Dozier Walker, a music teacher, encouraged her to read poetry and philosophy from an early age. Walker completed her high school education at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana, where her family had moved in 1925. She went on to attend New Orleans University (now Dillard University) for two years. Then, after acclaimed poet Langston Hughes recognized her talent and urged her to seek training in the North, she transferred to Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where she received a B.A. in English in 1935, at the age of nineteen. In 1937, she published "For My People" in Poetry magazine. Her first poem to appear in print, it became one of her most famous and was even anthologized in 1941 in The Negro Caravan before becoming the opening poem of her first volume of verse in 1942.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou Book Notes Later volumes, which focus on specific parts of her a friend to everyone from author James Baldwin with the difficulties of being African American and female http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/BIO.htm
Extractions: Jump to: Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 28 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 31 Chapter 32 Chapter 33 Chapter 34 Chapter 35 Chapter 36 Author/Context Maya Angelou was born in 1938, and has led a full and public life. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , her most famous work, is the poeticized true story of her childhood in Arkansas and California. She has continued her autobiography with Gather Together in My Name , which is considered superior to Caged Bird in literary style, but inferior in terms of ideas and content. Later volumes, which focus on specific parts of her political or ideological life, include
Westmark School- Books Available The author describes a way of thinking about teaching and chronicles the lives of five hundred africanamerican women, living bioGRAPHIES bio ANG Angelou, Maya http://www.westmark.pvt.k12.ca.us/LRCweb/katebooks.html
Extractions: Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject. If you are committed to making learning active, but occasionally run out of steam, this is the book to get you back on track with fresh ideas and innovative strategies. Time Management for Teachers: Practical Techniques and Skills that Give You More Time to Teach. Includes ready to use procedures and aids to help you eliminate time wasters, make more time for teaching and learning, maximize the use of time during lessons, reduce the time spent on paperwork, and teach your students to manage their own time better. Teaching Students with Learning and Behavior Problems. This book provides information regarding appropriate assessment techniques and instructional methods and suggestions for specific materials and sources. Doisms: Ten Prosocial Principles That Ensure Caring Connections with Kids. A philosophical reflection on what caring adults can DO to interact more successfully with children. Good Friends Are Hard To Find: Help Your Child Find, Make and Keep Friends and Also Deal With: Teasing, Bullying, Meanness and Stormy Relationships. Do you wish your student had more friends? Step by step guide to help a child make friends and solve problems with other kids.
African American Romance Author Targetting to specific forums or sitewide. Mainstream Regency African American Mystery E-books All Titles Enter any title or author. http://romance.woosy.com/1/african-american-romance-author.html
African American History own index.) Access is by author and subject africanamerican Orators A bio-Critical Sourcebook African American Studies Guide to Internet Resources (University http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/blks/resguide/afamhis.htm
Extractions: African American History: A Research Guide Contents: Getting Started Finding Newspaper and Periodical Articles General Reference Sources Statistics ... Library of Congress Subject Headings Historical information on African Americans is abundantly available in the Morris Library. This select bibliography can be used to identify full-text information online, books, newspaper and periodical articles, and encyclopedia entries on this topic. A few good starting points are: Biography Reference Bank . Bronx, N.Y.: H.W. Wilson Co. LOCATION: Library Databases A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database includes entries from the following directories, which are also available in print: Contemporary Black Biography Notable Black American Men Notable Black American Women , the St. James Guide to Black Artists
Cushcity.com - Promote Your Book Or Product We reach a worldwide audience of over 200,000 africanamerican consumers each our biweekly e-mail newsletter and includes author s photo, bio, cover of http://www.cushcity.com/displaypages/promote.htm
Extractions: Reach Thousands of African-American Book Readers at Affordable Rates!! As a successful author, you know that writing and publishing your book was just the beginning. Marketing your book and getting it in front of the right audience can be extremely challengingand costly. Cushcity.com, the world's largest selection of African-American products online, is here to help. Cushcity.com is the mostly highly trafficked African-American e-commerce site in cyberspace. We reach a worldwide audience of over 200,000 African-American consumers each month and receive 2 million monthly page views. In addition, Cushcity.com: Has been featured in Essence Ebony Black Enterprise and Upscale magazines, as well as in the business section of The New York Times. Cushcity.com was also featured in a national radio and print ad campaign by the U.S. Postal Service for its success as a growing e-commerce enterprise. Is the only online book seller which reports its sales to both the Essence and Black Issues Book Review magazine book lists. This means that when your book achieves a certain sales level at Cushcity.com
Research Guide: African-American Literature American, African, and Caribbean authors A bioBibliography (Littleton title and first line index, author index, and Masterpieces of african-american Literature http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/ulib/ref/guides/lit/AfricanAmericanLit.html
Extractions: Research Guide: African-American Literature African-American Newspapers: The 19th Century This database provides the complete word-for-word texts of major 19th century African-American newspapers. African-American Poetry (1750-1900) Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. African American Studies - History Universe Includes major federal legislation relating to the slave trade, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action and issue related to race relations (1792-1994); U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional issues raised by slavery, reconstruction, Jim crow laws, school segregation, job and housing discrimination, and affirmative action programs (1806-1999); autobiographies of prominent African-Americans; manuscript materials; reference and scholarly articles; photographs; speeches; and government documents. International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) IIBP includes current and retrospective citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, andthe Caribbean. It also includes full text coverage of twenty-five core Black studies periodicals from 1998 forward. The database is international in scope and multidisciplinary, covering cultural, economic, historical, religious, social and political issues. Retrospective citations in the database date as far back as 1902.
Bookreporter.com - Author Talk: Matthew Pearl poet and Harvard medical professor Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, author and editor is the character of Nicholas Rey, the first africanamerican policeman in bio http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/talk-pearl-matthew.asp
Extractions: A CONVERSATION WITH MATTHEW PEARL Matthew Pearl graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in English and American Literature in 1997 and from Yale Law School in 2000. In 1998, he won the prestigious Dante Prize from the Dante Society of America for his scholarly work. In this interview, Pearl discusses his debut novel, THE DANTE CLUB , a captivating thriller that combines fact with fiction. MP: The central historical figures in the novel were writers - so lucky for me (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) they wrote down everything. Letters, journals, notes, memoirs, I had endless entrances into their lives. I always find their comments about one another most intriguing and revealing, particularly when they're critical about their friends. As for the rest of the world of 1865, everything helps. Historical maps, contemporary accounts of daily life, newspaper articles. When you're writing historical fiction, you want to know what your characters would have had for breakfast, what kind of hats they would wear, how they might greet each other if meeting on the street.
African-American Hist Also see our Southern History page for specific state archives. related information about Rudolph Fisher (18971934), an african-american author and physician http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/afroam.html
Black Writers American authors An Illustrated bioBibliography comp. Twentieth-century african-american writers and artists by information about a particular author, do a http://www.lib.jmu.edu/literature/black_writers.htm
Extractions: This guide is intended to help you find information about Black novelists, dramatists, poets, and short story writers. The list of materials is selective, rather than comprehensive, but should serve as a good starting point for research. Other guides on Caribbean Writers, Drama, Novel, Short Story and Poetry are available in the reference area and also list sources that will lead you to information on Black writers. If you have difficulty finding information about an author or work, please ask a reference librarian for help.
Multicultural Literature Resources articles pertaining to the study of africanamerican women novelists Ward, Robert E. A bio-Bibliography of German list of writings by the listed author as well http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/multicultural.html
Extractions: Library Catalog Find: Articles Databases e-Journals MyLibrary ... Individual Libraries Reference Services This guide contains tips and strategies for locating biographical and critical information on American writers grouped by ethnicity (e.g., African-American, Jewish-American, etc.), as well a bibliography of resources, both in print and online. Since it focuses primarily on reference materials, it is necessarily selective. The Library Catalog and Find Databases will list and/or provide access to far more material than can be listed below. CONTENTS Ascertaining Ethnicity Using LC Subject Headings for Ethnic Literatures Full Text Online Resources Databases ... Reference Sources by Ethnicity Ethnic-American Literatures Ascertaining Ethnicity Surnames are not always indicative of ethnicity, and often it can be difficult to compile a list of authors by ethnic background. To identify writers of a specific ethnic ancestry, try the following strategies: Search the Literature Resource Center: Click on "Authors by Type" Scroll down to the "Author Ethnicity" menu box and select one of the four categories.
Selected Library Resources For authorspecific Works. Contemporary authors a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general African American Literary Criticism, 1773-2000. http://www.ar.cc.mn.us/crlibrary/OldFiles/LiteraryCriticism.htm
Extractions: Selected Library Resources for Literary Criticism Anoka Ramsey Community College REFERENCE MATERIALS General Contemporary Literary Criticism PN 771 .C59 Ongoing encyclopedia of current literary criticism, bringing together criticism of all the various kinds from widely diverse sources. Presents significant passages from the published criticism of work by well-known novelists, short story writers, poets, and playwrights. Covers criticism of authors living from 1960-present. Literature Criticism from 1400-1800 PN 86 .L53 1984 Excerpts from criticism of the works of fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century novelists, poets, playwrights, philosophers, and other creative writers, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations. Modern American Literature PS 221 .C8 1969 Provides excerpts and references to critical articles on the works of the major American authors of the first half of the 20 th century. Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism PN 761 .N56
Research Guide: Women Writers africanamerican Women Playwrights A Research Guide, Ref Story Criticism (SSC) (use author index at Playwrights of Diversity A bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, http://www.wcsu.edu/library/gd_women_writers.html
Extractions: Resources on the Web Reference Books CONSULS Catalog Periodical Indexes ... Questions? Here are some links to help you explore Web resources on women writers: African American Women Writers of the 19th Century (New York Public Library) ARTFL French Women Writers Project (Univ. of Chicago) Bibliography of Works by and about Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Juliet Sloger/Univ. of Rochester Library) A Celebration of Women Writers (Mary Mark Ockerbloom/Univ. of Pennsylvania Digital Library) Emory Women Writers Resource Project Medieval Women Writers (Laurie Churchill/Five Colleges of Ohio Consortium) Victorian Women Writers Project (Indiana University) Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color (Univ. of Minnesota) Women's Studies Resources: Literature (Karla Tonella/Univ. of Iowa) Women Writers (Electronic Text Center) Women Writers Project (Brown University) International Marie de France Society (includes full-text) The Lais of Marie de France Study Guide (12th Century) (Paul Brians) The Lais of Marie de France: A Verse Translation (Judith P. Shoaf)
BooksSquare.com- A Directory Of Specific Poets Book specific Poets. Listing Faison, Latorial Immaculate Perceptions african-american Poet from Virginia, author of Secrets Of My Soul. http://www.bookssquare.com/Arts_Poetry_SpecificPoets.html
Author Research Pathfinder - Snohomish High School Library Yearbook contains biographical information on people who were in the news during a specific year. About the author. Masterpieces of africanamerican Literature. http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/SHS-pages/Library/author_research.htm
Extractions: Snohomish High School Library 1316 Fifth Street Snohomish, WA 98290 Phone: 360-563-4047 Library home page: http://shs.sno.wednet.edu/library.htm Librarian Email: Volkert.Volkersz@sno.wednet.edu Author Research Pathfinder S.H.S. LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG http://192.168.221.249:9000/webopac/main?siteid=1 Author Search Tips When searching for an author, start with the last name. For a book by an author, click the Author button. For a book about the author, click the Subject button. To see if the author is listed somewhere else in a book description, click the Keyword button. In this case you may want to try last name only, or first/middle/last in the proper order. Some authors are not fully cataloged in our library (yet), so you may also want to search for a specific book title. Type in the title , and click the Title button. Subject search terms include: authors, books, literature, English, American, etc.
