141 Books in the Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Category

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Baldwin: A Love Story Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler Firstborn Girls: A Memoir Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Salvage: Readings from the Wreck This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik Paul Laurence Dunbar Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family The Life of Josiah Henson: Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada; To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America Conversations with John A. Williams Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times (Women Writers of Color) Chester B. Himes: A Biography Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Heav’nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley Poet Laureate of the American Revolution Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones The Lights of Pointe-Noire: A Memoir Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond Hook: A Memoir Alex Haley: And The Books That Changed A Nation The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey into Manhood Dark Justice (Dark Justice Series) Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (New Black Studies Series) Ordinary Light: A Memoir Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean Wandering Time: Western Notebooks Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Last Interview: and Other Conversation The Words & Wisdom of Charles Johnson Letter to Jimmy James Baldwin The Last Interview: and Other Conversations Essence Maya Angelou: Her Phenomenal Life & Poetic Journey A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist (Women Writers of Color) Visible Man: The Life Of Henry Dumas Dreaming of Elsewhere: Observations on Home Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir Men We Reaped Fathering Words: The Making Of An African American Writer Mom & Me & Mom In The House Of The Interpreter: A Memoir There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra And Bid Him Sing: A Biography Of Countee Cullen The South Africa of His Heart: A Memoir about Love, Loss and Serendipity: a work of creative nonfiction One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir My Father’s Name: A Black Virginia Family After the Civil War Things I Should Have Told My Daughter Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara Dorothy West’s Paradise: A Biography Of Class And Color Manchild In The Promised Land The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker Literary Sisters: Dorothy West And Her Circle, A Biography Of The Harlem Renaissance One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir Dust Tracks On A Road: An Autobiography Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist At Work Grand Central Winter: Stories from the Street John Oliver Killens: A Life Of Black Literary Activism Conversations With Yusef Komunyakaa (Literary Conversations Series) The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir Triangular Road: A Memoir Letter to My Daughter Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers Gather Together In My Name I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings The Heart of a Woman (paperback) Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas The 5th Inning Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin Porch Stories: A Grandmother’s Guide to Happiness Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture) Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Richard Wright: The Life and Times Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography of the Spirit (Women Writers of Color) Conversations with Leon Forrest (Literary Conversations) An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege Ralph Ellison: A Biography You Must Set Forth At Dawn: A Memoir In Search of Nella Larsen: A Biography of the Color Line When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters Living to Tell the Tale The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930 What Becomes of the Brokenhearted: A Memoir Liberation Memories: The Rhetoric And Poetics Of John Oliver Killens (African American Life Series) A Song Flung Up to Heaven The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986 Conversations with Margaret Walker Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1914-1967, I Dream a World The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II: 1941-1967, I Dream a World (Life of Langston Hughes, 1941-1967) Finding Fish: A Memoir The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart Donald Writes No More Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy Soldier: A Poet’s Childhood Las Mamis: Favorite Latino Authors Remember Their Mothers Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 The Prisoner’s Wife Sweet Summer: Growing up with and without My Dad A Small Place The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey Always In Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives Crabcakes: A Memoir Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life Black Boy Down These Mean Streets The Heart of a Woman Native in a Strange Land: Trials & Tremors Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations) Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man In America I Shall Not Be Moved South To A Very Old Place Aké: The Years Of Childhood James Baldwin: The Legacy The Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois, Volume I: Selections, 1877–1934 Long Way From Home