Category - Fiction

The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...

First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of enco...

The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting s...

Paule Marshall, the highly acclaimed author of the classic Brown Girl, Brownstones, returns to a Brooklyn setting in this moving and revelatory st...

Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this razor-sharp sequel from acclaimed author Omar Tyree.From hard-k...

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed Jam...

RM Johnson's extraordinary debut is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death -- and the three sons h...

The unforgettable crew of characters from RM Johnson's bestselling debut novel, The Harris Men, returns in a riveting story of love, loss, and sec...

From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed “one of America’s best mystery writers” (The New York Times Book Review)...

Easy Rawlins is on the verge of losing everything—until he gets an offer from the FBI that he has no choice but to accept.For most Black American...

Easy finally believes he can lead a simple life and leave his haunted past behind him—until he meets a woman who changes everything.November 1963...

From an acclaimed playwright comes "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Twilight is a stunning work of "documenta...

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most pro...

A second book of poetry by Louise Erdich, author of the bestselling and award winning novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen and Tracks.Baptisim by b...

Cathy N. Davidson offers a completely corrected edition, with a new introduction, of Charlotte Temple, the most widely read novel in America unti...

An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Em...