Publisher's Synopsis
Meet the black women writers who Lived Their Dreams from the early years to modern times
Margaret Walker Alexander
Maya Angelou
Toni Cade Bambara
Gwendolyn Brooks
Octavia Butler
Lucille Clifton
Alice Moore Dunbar–Nelson
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Nikki Giovanni
Lorraine Hansberry
Frances E. W. Harper
Zora Neale Hurston
Harriet Jacobs
Audre Lord
Paule Marshall
Terry McMillan
Toni Morrison
Ann Petry
Ntozake Shange
Sojourner Truth
Alice Walker
Ida B. Wells–Barnett
Dorothy West
Phillis Wheatley
