A Gift of Story/Encyclopedia of African-American Literature

Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels, General Editor

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Photography

Most author photos are used with permission of Lynda Koolish. The photos appear in her book African American Writers: Portraits and Visions, published in 2001 by the University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 1578062586.

Other Photo Source Sites

James Baldwin
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin.html
Amiri Baraka
http://www.bridgesweb.com/blacktheatre/baraka.html
Gwendolyn Brooks
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=166
Ralph Ellison
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9908/juneteenth.html
Langston Hughes
http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html
Zora Neale Hurston
http://www.hurston-wright.org/home.html
Haki Madhubuti
http://www.founders.howard.edu/Reference/Hakimadhubuti/
Tupac Shakur
http://www.tupac-online.com/pictures/View.aspx?Cat=General&File=3.jpg&Size=M
Richard Wright
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/wright_richard

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