Originally published in 1967,
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers offers a timeless and unforgettable portrait of the tragedy, comedy, triumph, and suffering that were part of African-American life from 1899 to 1967.
This classic anthology features the following distinguished authors:
Alston Anderson | James Baldwin | Lebert Bethune
Robert Boles | Arna Bontemps | Gwendolyn Brooks
Frank London Brown | Charles W. Chesnutt | Alice Childress
John Henrik Clarke | Cyrus Colter | Pearl Crayton
Owen Dodson | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Katherine Dunham
Junius Edwards | Ralph Ellison | Ronald Fair
Rudolph Fisher | Ernest J. Gaines | Chester B. Himes
Langston Hughes | Kristin Hunter | Zora Neale Hurston
Clifford Vincent Johnson | William Melvin Kelley
John Oliver Killens | Woodie King, Jr. | Sylvester Leaks
Paule Marshall | R. J. Meaddough III | Ronald Milner
Willard Motley | Lindsay Patterson | Ted Poston
Conrad Kent Rivers | Charlie Russell | Mike Thelwell
Jean Toomer | Mary Elizabeth Vroman | Alice Walker
Eric Walrond | Dorothy West | John A. Williams
Charles Wright | Richard Wright | Frank Yerby
Also available from Little, Brown and Company: Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present. Edited and with an introduction by Gloria Naylor.
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