- The Power of the Porch: The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)
- Summer Snow: Reflections from a Black Daughter of the South
- Fiction and Folklore: The Novels of Toni Morrison
- Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature
- Afro-American Writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940 (Dictionary of Literary Biography)