Maya Angelou, 1 Victor Hernández Cruz, 224 Countée Cullen, 234 James Baldwin, 16 Toni Cade Bambara, 40 Samuel R. Delany, 248 Amiri Baraka, 55 Toi Derricotte, 269 Arna Wendell Bontemps, Owen Dodson, 277 77 Frederick Douglass, 286 Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Rita Dove, 295 90 W. E. B. Du Bois, 308 Gwendolyn Brooks, 108 Paul Laurence Dunbar, 318 Sterling A. Brown, 124 Ed Bullins, 135 Cornelius Eady, 341 Octavia E. Butler, 154 Lonne Elder III, 350 Ralph Ellison, 360 Bebe Moore Campbell, 168 Barbara Chase-Riboud, 177 Jessie Redmon Fauset, 385 Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Charles Fuller, 394 186 Alice Childress, 206 Ernest J. Gaines, 406 Lucille Clifton, 215 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 432

Volume 2

Nikki Giovanni, 443 Zora Neale Hurston, 560

Alex Haley, 460 Charles Johnson, 582 Virginia Hamilton, 469 June Jordan, 603 Lorraine Hansberry, 477 Michael S. Harper, 493 William Melvin Kelley, 613 Robert Hayden, 506 Adrienne Kennedy, 622 Chester Himes, 521 Jamaica Kincaid, 634 Langston Hughes, 539 Martin Luther King, Jr., 652 xv Notable African American Writers

Etheridge Knight, 661 Paule Marshall, 776 Yusef Komunyakaa, 672 Toni Morrison, 792 Walter Dean Myers, 812 Nella Larsen, 682 Audre Lorde, 692 Gloria Naylor, 821

Claude McKay, 707 Gordon Parks, Sr., 835 Reginald McKnight, 722 Suzan-Lori Parks, 844 Terry McMillan, 730 Ann Petry, 854 James Alan McPherson, 740 Haki R. Madhubuti, 750 Dudley Randall, 870 Clarence Major, 768 Ishmael Reed, 884

Volume 3

Sonia Sanchez, 901 African American Long Ntozake Shange, 915 Fiction, 1169 African American Poetry, Jean Toomer, 929 1188 African American Short Alice Walker, 952 Fiction, 1210 Joseph A. Walker, 980 Booker T. Washington, 988 Appendixes Cornel West, 997 More African American Phillis Wheatley, 1006 Writers, 1241 John Edgar Wideman, 1025 Bibliography, 1266 John A. Williams, 1049 Electronic Resources, August Wilson, 1059 1294 Jay Wright, 1072 Chronological List of Richard Wright, 1090 Authors, 1303

Frank Yerby, 1112 Indexes Al Young, 1125 Genre Index, 1307 Personages Index, 1309 Essays Title Index, 1315 African American Drama, Subject Index, 1328 1151 xvi