Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds Paperback by Mary Helen Washington

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor (1989-12-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385260152
• Item Weight: 483.37 grams
• Dimensions: 21.49 x 13.84 x 2.41 cm

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.  The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.



"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." --The New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Mary Helen Washington is a critic, essayist, anthologist, and English professor at the University of Maryland. Previously she taught at the University of Massachusetts and was a Bunting Fellow at Harvard. She is the editor of numerous anthologies of black writing, including Black-Eyed Susans: Classic Stories by Black Women Writers; Midnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers; Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.