CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Contemporary African American Novelists -- TINA McELROY ANSA (1949- ) -- DORIS JEAN AUSTIN (c. 1949- 1994) -- JAMES BALDWIN (1924- 1987) -- TONI CADE BAMBARA (1939- 1995) -- BARRY BECKHAM (1944- ) -- HAL BENNETT (1930- ) -- DAVID HENRY BRADLEY, JR. (1950- ) -- GWENDOLYN BROOKS (1917- ) -- CECIL MORRIS BROWN (1943- ) -- FRANK LONDON BROWN (1927- 1962) -- ED BULLINS (1935- ) -- OCTAVIA E. BUTLER (1947- ) -- BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL (1950- ) -- BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD (1939- ) -- ALICE CHILDRESS (1916- 1994) -- MICHELLE CLIFF (1946- ) -- CYRUS COLTER (1910- ) -- STEVEN CORBIN (1953- 1995) -- SAMUEL DELANY (1942- ) -- WILLIAM DEMBY (1922- ) -- MELVIN DIXON (1950- 1992) -- LARRY DUPLECHAN (1956- ) -- RALPH WALDO ELLISON (1914- 1994) -- ARTHUR R. FLOWERS (1950- ) -- LEON FORREST (1937- ) -- ALBERT FRENCH (1943- ) -- ERNEST J. GAINES (1933- ) -- MARITA GOLDEN (1950- ) -- SAM GREENLEE (1930- ) -- BILL GUNN (1934- 1989) -- E. LYNN HARRIS (1957- ) -- CHESTER B. HIMES (1909- 1984) -- KRISTIN HUNTER (1931- ) -- BLYDEN JACKSON (1910- ) -- CHARLES JOHNSON (1948- ) -- GAYL JONES (1949- ) -- JUNE JORDAN (1936- ) -- WILLIAM MELVIN KELLEY (1937- ) -- RANDALL KENAN (1963- ) -- JOHN OLIVER KILLENS (1916- 1987) -- JAMAICA KINCAID (1949- ) -- ANDREA LEE (1953- ) -- AUDREY LEE (1930?-?) -- PHILIP LEWIS (?- ) -- AUDRE LORDE (1934- 1992) -- CLARENCE MAJOR (1936- ) -- PAULE MARSHALL (1929- ) -- SHARON BELL MATHIS (1937- ) -- JOHN A. McCLUSKEY, JR. (1944- ) -- REGINALD McKNIGHT (1956- ) -- TERRY McMILLAN (1951- ) -- LOUISE MERIWETHER (1923- ) -- TONI MORRISON (1931- ) -- WALTER MOSLEY (1952- ) -- ALBERT MURRAY (1916- ) -- WALTER DEAN MYERS (1937- ) -- GLORIA NAYLOR (1950- ) -- ANN PETRY (1908- 1997) -- CARLENE HATCHER POLITE (1932- ) -- ISHMAEL REED (1938- ) -- JEWELL PARKER RHODES (1954- ) -- DORI SANDERS (1934- ) -- SAPPHIRE (1950- ).

GIL SCOTT-HERON (1949- ) -- NTOZAKE SHANGE (1948- ) -- CHARLOTTE WATSON SHERMAN (1958- ) -- ANN ALLEN SHOCKLEY (1927- ) -- APRIL SINCLAIR (1954- ) -- ELLEASE SOUTHERLAND (1943- ) -- JOYCE CAROL THOMAS (1938- ) -- DAWN TURNER TRICE (1965- ) -- ALICE WALKER (1944- ) -- MARGARET WALKER (1915- ) -- DOROTHY WEST (1907- 1998) -- JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN (1941- ) -- SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS (1944- ) -- JACQUELINE WOODSON (1963- ) -- SARAH ELIZABETH WRIGHT (1928- ) -- FRANK GARVIN YERBY (1916- 1991) -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS.