Motown / Philadelphia / Washington / D.C. / Pittsburgh / Brooklyn / New York City / Los Angeles / /
Company
Kindred / Fathers and Sons / Wilson / The Washington Post / San Francisco Review / Negro Ensemble Company / The New York Times / Boston Globe / All About / /
Continent
America / Americas / Africa / /
Country
Antigua / Haiti / United States / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
Critics Circle Awards / /
Event
Movie Release / /
Facility
Homewood / Oxford University / University of Massachusetts / University of Illinois Press / University of Virginia / Beacon Press / University of Pennsylvania / Yale University / /
IndustryTerm
electronic media / /
Movie
On the Road / Waiting to Exhale / Devil in a Blue Dress / /
Organization
University of Illinois Press / University of Virginia / Connie Porter’s All-Bright Court / Oxford University / Oprah’s Book Club / Ivy League / University of Massachusetts / the University of Pennsylvania / Yale University / /
Person
Marilyn Nelson / Amiri Baraka / Ishmael Reed / ROBERT B. STEPTO / Sarah Phillips / JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN / Annie John / Barbara Neely / Charles Johnson / Elaine Potter Richardson / Terry McMillan / Pamela Thomas-Graham / Breena Clarke / Connie Porter / Doris Grumbach / Rita Dove / James Baldwin / Walter Mosley / Stanley Crouch / Joseph Walker / James McBride / Cheryl L. West / Henry Louis Gates / Jr. / Andrea Lee / Yusef Komunyakaa / William Faulkner / Garry Pierre-Pierre / Anna Deavere Smith / Frederick Douglass / Tribute / Toni Morrison / George Schuyler / Suzan-Lori Parks / Valerie Wilson Wesley / Darryl Pinckney / Hedley II / Charles Gordone / Mother Love / Ron Milner / Octavia Butler / Joe Turner / Marina Budhos / Zora Neale Hurston / Lorraine Hansberry / Blanche Among / Chester Himes / Pearl Cleage / Oprah Winfrey / Kathleen Hug / /
Position
black minister / major writer / jazz saxophonist / onetime social worker / detective / private investigator / player / actress / author / maid / King / professor / novelist / Novelist and short story writer / poet / journalist / writer / esteemed professor / professor of African American studies / /
ProvinceOrState
Virginia / Louisiana / New York / Michigan / California / Texas / Pennsylvania / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
The New Yorker / the San Francisco Review / The New York Times / Esquire / Washington Post / The Boston Globe / The Washington Post / /
BLACK AMERICAN L I T E R AT U R E AT Y E A R[removed] : A NEW PRESENCE BY ROBERT B. STEPTO