The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original—from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late nineteenth century to the rich and productive work of the Harlem Renaissance: writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright; the World War II accomplishments of Chester Himes, Frank Yerby, and many others; and the later fiction of James Baldwin, Paule Marshall, and LeRoi Jones (Imamu Amiri Baraka). Seven additional contributions round out a century of great stories with the work of Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Eugenia Collier, Jennifer Jordan, James Allan McPherson, Rosemarie Robotham, and Alice Walker. Dr. Clarke has included a new introduction to this 1993 edition, and a short biography of each contributor.
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John Henrik Clarke was born in 1915 in Union Springs, Alabama, and was brought up in Columbus, Georgia. Editor, lecturer, writer, and teacher, Dr. Clarke lived in New York City from 1933 until his death in 1998.
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- Best Short Stories (Dover Large Print Classics) by O. Henry in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Home To Harlem (Northeastern Library of Black Literature) by Claude McKay in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Hue and Cry: Stories by James Alan McPherson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- American Negro Short Stories by John Henrik Clarke in Copyright, and Back Cover
- The Ways of White Folks: Stories by Langston Hughes in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on page 192, page 205, and page 206
- American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Julie Brown on page 192, page 205, and page 206
- An Annotated Bibliography of Jazz Fiction and Jazz Fiction Criticism (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature) by Richard N. Albert on page 50, page 57, and page 59
- My Name is Legion: The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac (Interfaces series) by Michael Willett Newheart in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Ann Petry's Short Fiction: Critical Essays (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets) by Hazel A. Ervin on page 56, and Back Matter
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