... John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom , 1829–1865 ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1989 ) , 131 . 6. Langston , From the Virginia Plantation , 125 . 7. Paul Finkelman , “ Prelude to the Fourteenth Amendment ...
With scorching honesty but also fair and compassionate, Rampersad lays bare his subject’s troubled psychology and its impact on his art and on the people about him.This book is both the definitive biography of Ellison and a stellar model ...
"A brother on the lam, the sighting of a Confederate ghost during a high fever, a therapist s flat tire the events of a single episode of Howard Norman s superb memoir are both on the edge of chaos and gathered superbly into coherent ...
... in author's possession). 28. Nelson v. Tyler, case file 15168, record group number, 96-171, box 91 (State of ... John Langston was found on a number of excellent Web sites, including the African American Registry's Web site at ...
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A radiant collection of letters from the renowned author of Invisible Man that traces the life and mind of a giant of American literature, with insights into the riddle of identity, the writer’s craft, ...
... third daughter of Governor Smith . The Rev. Thos . King , of Wallington , Surrcy , to Amelia , third daughter of ... John Langston , esq . of Sarsden - house , Oxfordshire . - At Twickenham , the Rev. C. F. Moore , to ( atherine ...
Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor. For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other.
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s—and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan ...
... University Press , 2008 ) , 141 . 2. Vincent Julius ... John Lindsay , " Jet , Dec. 9 , 1965 , 5 . 6. " Robert Lowery Named N.Y. City Fire Commissioner by Mayor - Elect John Lindsay . " For the 1964 Harlem Riot , see Langston ...