William L. Andrews

Biography of William L. Andrews

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored, edited, or co-edited more than 40 books on African American literature and history. He is the recipient of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in the study of American literature.

He is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt; and To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760—1865.

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10 Books by William L. Andrews


Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 4th Ed.

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1): 4th Edition by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 1)

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2): 4th Edition by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Frances Foster, Brent Hayes Edwards, Deborah E. McDowell, Hortense J. Spillers, Kimberly W. Benston, Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Jesse McCarthy

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature (Volume 2)

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Book Cover Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840-1865 by William L. Andrews

Slavery and Class in the American South

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O'Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall (Editors)

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

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Book Cover The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed. by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Valerie Smith, William L. Andrews, Kimberly Benston, Brent Hayes Edwards, Frances Smith Foster, Deborah E. McDowell, Robert G. O’Meally, Hortense J. Spillers, and Cheryl A. Wall

The Norton Anthology of African American Literature 3rd Ed.

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Book Cover The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology by William L. Andrews

The North Carolina Roots of African American Literature

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Book Cover North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones by William L. Andrews

North Carolina Slave Narratives

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Book Cover The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

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Book Cover The Oxford Companion to African American Literature by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

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