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20th-Century African American Authors Set
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This Library of America 20th-Century African American Authors Set includes the following books:

James Baldwin: Collected Essays | 869 pages
Notes of a Native Son • Nobody Knows My Name • The Fire Next Time • No Name in the Street • The Devil Finds Work • other essays

James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories | 869 pages
Go Tell It on the Mountain • Giovanni’s Room • Another Country • Going to Meet the Man (stories)

Zora Neale Hurston: Novels & Stories | 1,054 pages
Jonah’s Gourd Vine • Their Eyes Were Watching God • Moses, Man of the Mountain • Seraph on the Suwanee • stories

Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings | 1,024 pages
Mules and Men • Tell My Horse • Dust Tracks on a Road • essays

Richard Wright: Early Works | 936 pages
Lawd Today! • Uncle Tom’s Children • Native Son

Richard Wright: Later Works | 887 pages
Black Boy (American Hunger) • The Outsider

James Weldon Johnson: WritingsFREE book—$40 in bookstores!
906 pages
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man • Along This Way • essays and editorials • selected poems

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Southern Women Writers (7-book set)

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