Filter By Subjects
African American authors African American authors Biography African American women authors American fiction Indian authors Authors, American Authors, American 20th century Biography Canadian fiction Indian authors Ernaux, Annie 1940- Speeches, addresses, etc., American African American authors Women authorsFilter By Subjects
African American authors African American authors Biography African American women authors American fiction Indian authors Authors, American Authors, American 20th century Biography Canadian fiction Indian authors Ernaux, Annie 1940- Speeches, addresses, etc., American African American authors Women authorsZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTSummary: A collection of twenty-six crime stories, written by top women authors during the past century, includes pieces by Dorothy L. Sayers, Sara Paretsky, Shirley Jackson, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, J.A. Jance, and other notables.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOMSandeen, Del
Summary: Maya Angelou was a writer, dancer, activist, and actress, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her body of work evokes emotions that range the full spectrum, from joy to heartbreak and from rage to hope. A phenomenal woman, she enriched the world of literature and society as a whole. This essential biography explores her life and creative output and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ANGMorrison, Toni
Summary: Arguably the most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us a new nonfiction collection--a rich gathering of her essays, speeches, and meditations on society, culture, and art, spanning four decades.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 814 MORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MORCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Essay MorrisonBair, Deirdre
Summary: "National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BAIR, DEIRDRE BAIEwing, Eve L.
Summary: Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic, Eve L. Ewing's narrative takes us from the streets of 1990s Chicago to an unspecified future, deftly navigating the boundaries of space, time, and reality. Ewing imagines familiar figures in magical circumstances; blues legend Koko Taylor is a tall-tale hero; LeBron James travels through time and encounters his teenage self. She identifies...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 EWIMcLain, Paula
Summary: After meeting and falling in love while she covered the Spanish Civil War in Madrid, Martha Gellhorn is forced to choose between her marriage to Ernest Hemingway and her career as a war correspondent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MCLMorrison, Toni
Summary: The source of self-regard is brimming with all the elegance of mind and style, the literary prowess and moral compass that are Toni Morrison's inimitable hallmark. It is divided into three parts: the first is introduced by a powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11; the second by a searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., and the last by a heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. In the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814 MORWright, Richard
Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, RICHARD WRIHines, Stephen W.
Summary: Biography of children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, with articles, interviews and recollections of friends and neighbors, focusing on her later life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T. Nelson Publishers 1994
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 HINSummary: The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative dual-portrait documentary. Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) masterfully collages a wealth of archival material, including dishy talk show appearances with David Frost and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRUJudge, Lita
Summary: A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 JUDSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SANCHEZ, ERIKA L. SANSummary: "A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: "Are you ready to be un-settled?" Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Chapman, Ty
Summary: "Jason Reynolds's interest in hip-hop and poetry turned into a successful writing career. Learn about the New York Times best-selling author who has received a Newbery Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and many other accolades" -- Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 REYErnaux, Annie
Summary: "In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's desire and willpower. It is the summer of 1958, the year she turned 18. And then the man she gave herself to moves on. She has submitted her will to his, and now she finds that she is a slave without a master. Now, fifty years later,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ARNSummary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "How We Do It is an anthology curated by Black writers for the creation and proliferation of Black thought. While a creator's ethnicity does not solely define them, it is inherently part of who they are and how they interpret the world. For centuries, Black creators have utilized oral and written storytelling traditions in crafting their art. But how does one begin the process of constructing a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.02 HOWSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: "Moving, joyful, and insightful collection of conversations with today's living literary legends about the books that changed their lives, made them think, and brought them joy, from 'American's Librarian' Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 WRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 028 WRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word PearlDenise, Anika
Summary: "From the author of MONSTER TRUCK and STARRING CARMEN comes a gorgeous and lyrical story about Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who changed the world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Medina, Meg
Summary: This inspiring chapter book biography introduces readers to Pura Belpré who brought Spanish and bilingual storytelling and books to libraries across the country, giving Spanish speakers the opportunity to read and find community in ways they never had before.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BELSilko, Leslie Marmon
Summary: Silko takes readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, weaving tales from both sides of her family's past into her observations, and using the turquoise stones that she finds on her walks to unite the strands of her stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 2011