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This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones; Organized as an encyclopedia, it provides information on more than 600 noteworthy Black American playwrights whose plays have been written, produced, or published between 1950 and the present.

(Hardback)

Biographical directory of early black American playwrights from the time prior to the Civil War to World War II. Around 200 playwrights, librettists, screenwriters and radio script writers and their work are discussed.