Selected Bibliography

Arranged by Award Year

James Baldwin

Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play.  New York: Dial Press, 1964.

The Fire Next Time.  New York: Dial Press, 1963.

Giovanni’s Room. New York: Dial Press, 1956.

Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York: Knopf, 1953.

Notes of a Native Son.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.

Gwendolyn Brooks

 Annie Allen. New York: Harper, 1949.

In the Mecca. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Maud Martha, a Novel. New York: Harper, 1956.

A Street in Bronzeville. New York: Harper, 1945.

John Oliver Killens

The Cotillion or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd. New York: Trident Press, 1971.

‘Sippi. New York: Trident Press, 1967.

Youngblood. New York: Press Dial, 1954.

Toni Cade Bambara

The Salt Eaters. New York: Random House, 1980.

Paule Marshall

Brown Girl, Brownstones. New York: Random House, 1959.

The Chosen Place, the Timeless People. New York: Harcourt Press, 1969.

Daughters. New York: Atheneum, 1991.

Praisesong for the Widow. New York: Putnam Press, 1983.

Reena, and Other Stories. New York: Feminist Press, 1983.

Toni Morrison

Beloved. New York: Knopf, 1987.

The Bluest Eye. New York: Holt, 1969.

Jazz. New York: Knopf, 1992.

Love. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977.

Sula. New York: Knopf, 1973.

Tar Baby. New York: Knopf, 1981.

Sterling A. Brown

Negro Poetry and Drama [and] The Negro in American Fiction. New York: Ayer, 1969.

Southern Road. New York: Harcourt Press, 1932.

Margaret Walker Alexander

For My People. Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1942.

Jubilee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius. New York: Dodd, 1987.

Ralph Ellison

Going to the Territory. New York: Random House, 1986

Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.

Juneteenth. New York: Random House, 1999.

Raymond R. Patterson

Dangerous River. Vermont: Chelsea Green, 1990.

Elemental Blues: Poems 1981-1982. New York: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1983.

Twenty-six Ways of Looking at a Black Man and Other Poems. New York: Award Books, 1969.

Dennis Brutus

Letters to Martha and Other Poems from a South African Prison. New York: Heinemann, 1968.

Poems from Algiers. Texas: University of Texas at Austin Press, 1970.

Salutes and Censures. Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers, 1984.

Alice Walker

The Color Purple. California: Harcourt, 1982.

In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. California: Harcourt, 1973.

Meridian. California: Harcourt, 1976.

In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. California: Harcourt, 1983. 

The Temple of My Familiar. California: Harcourt, 1989.

The Third Life of Grange Copeland. California: Harcourt, 1970.

Amiri Baraka

Black Magic. New York: Morrow, 1967.

Blues People: Negro Music in White America. New York: Morrow, 1963.

Dutchman [and] The Slave: A Fable. New York: Morrow, 1964.

Alice Childress

Trouble in Mind (play) first produced off-Broadway at Greenwich Mews Theatre, November 3, 1955 with a revised version published in Black Theatre: A Twentieth-Century Collection of the Work of Its Best Playwrights. New York: Dodd, 1971

A Hero Ain`t Nothin’ but a Sandwich. London: Coward, 1973.

Maya Angelou 

And Still I Rise.  New York: Random House, 1978.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Random House, 1970.

I Shall Not Be Moved. New York: Random House, 1990.

August Wilson 

Fences. New York: New American Library, 1988.  Fences was first produced in New Haven, CT, at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1985.

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. New York: New American Library, 1990.  Joe Turner’s Come and Gone was first produced in New Haven, CT, at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1986.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.  New York: New American Library, 1985.  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was first produced in New Haven, CT, at the Yale Repertory Theatre, 1984.

Seven Guitars. New York: Dutton, 1995.

Two Trains Running. New York: New American Library/Dutton, 1993. Two Trains Running was first produced in New Haven, CT, at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1990. 

Chinua Achebe 

Anthills of the Savannah. New York: Anchor Books, 1988.

Arrow of God. London, England: Heinemann, 1964.

Morning Yet on Creation Day. New York: Doubleday, 1975.

No Longer at Ease. London, England: Heinemann, 1960.

Things Fall Apart. London, England: Heinemann, 1958.

Ernest Gaines

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. New York: Dial, 1971.

Bloodline. New York: Dial, 1968.

Catherine Carmier. New York: Atheneum, 1964.

A Gathering of Old Men. New York: Knopf, 1983.

A Lesson before Dying. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Of Love and Dust. New York: Dial, 1967.

Albert Murray

The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture. New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970.

Stomping the Blues. New York: McGraw, 1976.

Train Whistle Guitar. New York: McGraw, 1974.

Ishmael Reed

Flight to Canada. New York: Random House, 1976.

Mumbo Jumbo. New York: Doubleday, 1972. 

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down. New York: Doubleday, 1969.

George Lamming

In the Castle of My Skin. New York: McGraw, 1953.

The Pleasures of Exile. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1960.

Sonia Sanchez

Home Coming: Poems. Michigan: Broadside Press, 1969.I’ve Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems. California: Black Scholar Press, 1979.

Wole Soyinka

A Dance of the Forests. London: Oxford University Press, 1960.

Death and the King’s Horseman. New York: Norton, 1976.

Jayne Cortez 

Coagulations: New and Selected Poems. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1984.

Firespitter. New York: Bola Press, 1982.

Taking the Blues Back Home. (sound recording), with band the Firespitters, Harmolodic/Verve,

1997.

Derek Walcott 

The Capeman: A Musical New York: Farrar, Straus, 1998. The Capeman was first produced on Broadway at the Marquis Theater, December, 1997.

Dream on Monkey Mountain, a musical first produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1967.

In a Green Night: Poems. London, England: J. Cape, 1962.

The Castaway. London, England: J. Cape, 1965.

Omeros. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1990.

Sea Grapes. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1976.

The Star-Apple Kingdom. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1979.

Lucille Clifton

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000. New York: BOA Editions, 2000.

An Ordinary Woman. New York: Random House, 1974.

Two-Headed Woman. Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

James A. Emanuel 

The Broken Bow:. New and Uncollected Poems. New York: Lotus Press, 1983.

A Chisel in the Dark: Poems, Selected and New.  New York: Lotus Press, 1980.

The Treehouse and Other Poems. Michigan: Broadside Press, 1968.

Sekou Sundiata 

Free! New York : Shamal Books, 1977.

Off the Subject: the Words of Lyrical Circle of the Brotherhood/Sister Sol. New York: The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, 2006.

Arnold Rampersad

The Art and Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Jackie Robinson: a Biography. New York: Random House, 1997.

The Life of Langston Hughes. England: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Ralph Ellison: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 2007.

John Edgar Wideman

Brothers and Keepers. New York: Henry Holt, 1984.

Damballah. New York: Avon, 1981.

A Glance Away. New York: Harcourt, 1967.

Hiding Place. New York: Avon, 1981.

Philadelphia Fire. New York: Henry Holt, 1990.

Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild and Other Stories. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995.

Kindred. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Parable of the Sower. New York: Warner Books, 1995.

Gregory Howard Williams

Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black. New York: NAL-Dutton, 1995.