The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

by Marita Golden

Book Overview

Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives--in often unexpected ways. In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah's Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual borders of their communities and broadening their sense of self. Edwidge Danticat movingly recounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767929918
• ISBN13: 9780767929912
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"