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  • Published: 1 December 1989
  • ISBN: 9780385260152
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $65.00

Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds

Stories by and about Black Women



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

  • Published: 1 December 1989
  • ISBN: 9780385260152
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $65.00

About the author

Mary Helen Washington

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 WritersMidnight Birds: Stories of Contemporary Black Women WritersInvented Lives: Narratives of Black Women; and Memory of Kin: Stories of Family by Black Writers.

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