Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women

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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

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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 Writers;Midnight Birds- Stories of Contemporary Black Women Writers;Invented Lives- Narratives of Black Women; andMemory of Kin- Stories of Family by Black Writers.