Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds - by Mary Helen Washington (Paperback)

About the Book

Combining two critically acclaimed short story collections (for a total of 20 stories) published after 1960 by and about black women, this collection features the work of today's most celebrated black women writers.

Book Synopsis

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.