Robert Fleming
Content by Robert Fleming
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Like its author Vernon Jordan, the former civil rights leader turned capable businessman and lawyer, the memoir Vernon Can Read! is candid, worldly, controversial and distinctively smart.
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<B>A slave's quest for freedom</B> Overwhelming acclaim greeted David Anthony Durham's debut novel, <I>Gabriel's Story</I>, which inspired comparisons to William Faulkner an
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When the Johnson brothers, James Weldon and Rosamond, wrote the song, "Lift Every Voice And Sing, in 1900 to honor President Lincoln's birthday, they certainly had no idea how important th
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With the arrival of Black History Month comes the expectation of a host of African-American books, geared not only to that unique, highly creative community but to the general population as well.
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Let's face it. Not every writer has been able to make the leap from the romance category to mainstream fiction without producing a literary stumble or losing a bit of her audience.
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While not intended as a sequel to his National Book Award-winning volume Slaves in the Family, Edward Ball's latest work, The Sweet Hell Inside, takes a look at many of the same theme
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One of the leading writers of historical fiction, Jeff Shaara follows his popular bestsellers, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, with his latest novel, Gone For
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Timothy Dumas, former managing editor of Greentown News, is obsessed with the most infamous murder mystery to occur in America's wealthiest community, Greenwich, Connecticut.
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Inspired by the tragic 1994 Susan Smith incident in North Carolina, Richard Price sought to understand the social and cultural effects of a heinous crime cruelly exploited by a headline-thirsty med
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In witty, well-researched previous books, London author Robert Lacey infiltrated the closed societies of megabusiness (Ford: The Man and the Machine) and the underworld (Meyer Lansky and the Gangst
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In the past, John Edgar Wideman has often taken an oddly intellectual, emotionally distant approach to some of his controversial novels examining the crucial challenges confronting the African Amer
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Although Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, has been dead since 1992, works bearing his name continue to surface, capitalizing on the momentum generated by the soaring best-sellin
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Versatile novelists never stay content for long with a specific genre or style.
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David Haynes, a novelist deserving of greater recognition, continues to examine the humor and irony to be found in the social and cultural institutions of African-American life.
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What distinguishes the recent work of Michael Connelly from other current mysteries is his emphasis on the psychological terrain of his central character, Detective Harry Bosch.
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When Gayl Jones burst back on the literary scene in 1998 after a 20-year absence, she returned with a searing novel, The Healing, a National Book Award finalist.
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Sometimes an author can flop with a second book after a big hit (The View from Here), but that is not the case with Brian Keith Jackson's follow-up novel, Walking Through Mirrors.
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Sequels are rarely as good as the original, but Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents tops the imaginative vision of her 1994 Nebula Award-nominated outing, Parable of the Sower.
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The much-anticipated first novel, Among Others, from Lois Griffith, a director of New York City's noted Nuyorican Poets Cafe, has finally arrived.
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Early publicity on Mars Hill's debut novel, The Moaner's Bench, never mentioned the stunning pictorial quality of the book's glorious narrative.
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A superbly researched recounting of the controversial 1856 Margaret Garner case, which inspired Toni Morrison's Beloved, can be found in Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child Murder from
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Clayborne Carson, a Stanford University professor, has done the impossible with his reconstruction of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled from the vast collection of King's writing
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Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee are Black America's First Family of the theater and film.
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It is rare to read a biography these days that doesn't trash its subject.
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No current book brings the oppressive life of slavery to reality like Remembering Slavery.
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Wisdom exudes from every page of Steven Barboza's The African American Book of Values.
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Award-winning author Randall Kenan, known for his stylish short story collection, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, checks the pulse of Black America at the close of the 1990s with an extensive cross-cou
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Fans of Ralph Ellison's classic novel Invisible Man have endured a 40-year wait for the master novelist's follow-up work, Juneteenth, which Ellison worked on until his death in 1994.
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Veteran novelist Howard Fast shows his versatility as a storyteller with his latest work, Redemption, which combines several popular genres into a no-frills entertainment that will undoubtedly plea
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It is not unusual for a political thriller to possess a far-fetched plot, with America's military and diplomatic power laid low through some foreign threat against the President or the Congress.
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In Greg Iles's new book, the title explains the wall of silence and resistance confronted by Houston prosecutor Penn Cage upon his return to his Mississippi hometown.
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Fans of psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis will satisfy their need for thrills with Jonathan Kellerman's latest, Monster.
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Fans of psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis will satisfy their need for thrills with Jonathan Kellerman's latest, Monster.
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Ever wonder how jazz songstress Billie Holiday came to sing the classic tune, Strange Fruit ?
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In her new novel Half a Heart, Rosellen Brown uses the experiences of one woman to examine the dual themes of motherhood and race.
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One of the leading writers of historical fiction, Jeff Shaara follows his popular bestsellers, Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, with his latest novel, Gone For Soldiers.
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With his new novel, E. Lynn Harris tries to add something fresh to his usual formula of lies, double-dealing, betrayal, and bisexuality.
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vers Row imprint makes its debut As the market for African-American books grows, mainstream publishers are seeking new ways to meet the demand.
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vers Row imprint makes its debut As the market for African-American books grows, mainstream publishers are seeking new ways to meet the demand.
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vers Row imprint makes its debut As the market for African-American books grows, mainstream publishers are seeking new ways to meet the demand.
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he buzz surrounding Lee Martin's stunning memoir, From Our House, left readers and critics alike eager to see what the author would do next.
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So much has been written about the controversial African-American author Richard Wright, who penned Black Boy and Native Son.
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In time for Black History Month, publishers are honoring a community that has enriched the American social, cultural and political landscapes.
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he early work of novelist Jeff Shaara was inevitably compared to that of his father, Michael Shaara, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel The Killer Angels.
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