BOOKS

  • Book cover of 'Paule Marshall: A Writer's Life' featuring a close-up black and white photo of a woman with natural hair, with illustration of a palm tree, water, and a lighthouse in the background, on an orange and teal background.

    Paule Marshall

    Amazon
  • Book cover titled "Black-Eyed Susans" edited by Mary Helen Washington, featuring an illustration of a Black woman with three overlapping profiles, a yellow flower in her hair, and a necklace with red and yellow stripes.

    Black Eyed Susans

    Amazon
  • Book cover titled 'The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s' by Mary Helen Washington, featuring a detailed black and white sketch of seven African American individuals, including a woman in the front with a patterned dress and five men wearing hats, standing close together.

    The Other Blacklist

    Amazon
  • Book cover titled 'Memory of Kin' with subtitle 'Stories about Family by Black Writers' featuring a colorful collage scene of African American families picnicking and socializing outdoors under trees, with people dancing and sitting on blankets.

    Memory of Kin

    Amazon
  • Book cover for "Any Woman's Blues" with a blue bird illustration and red and blue text on a yellow background.

    Any Woman's Blues

    Amazon
  • Book cover titled 'Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960' by Mary Helen Washington, featuring a portrait of a Black woman with natural hair, wearing a hat, and text praising the book at the top.

    Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women 1860-1960

    Amazon

FOREWARDS & INTRODUCTIONS

Their Eyes Were Watching God Paperback

by Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Mary Helen Washington (Foreword)

Publisher: Perennial Classics

December 21, 1999

We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century Revised ed. Edition

by Dorothy Sterling (Editor), Mary Helen Washington (Introduction)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company

July 17, 1997

The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells: An Intimate Portrait of the Activist as a Young Woman (Black Women Writers Series) Paperback

by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Author), Miriam Decosta-Willis (Editor), Dorothy Sterling (Afterword), Mary Helen Washington (Foreword)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Press

October 31, 1995