Superior people -- What it's like to be a grown-up -- Developing a canon of Black work -- Telling a tale untold -- America's storyteller -- Being there before the light arrives -- To write the book I'd like to read.
Summary:
Examines the life and work of the successful novelist, who became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
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