Deborah E. McDowell

Deborah E. McDowell (born 1951) is the co-editor of Slavery of the Literary Imagination; author of The Changing Same: Studies in Fiction by Black Women; Leaving the Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin; and editor of Larsen’s Quicksand and Passing, Fauset’s Plum Bun, and Hopkins’s Of One Blood. Photo credit: Eduardo Montes-Bradley