Red Room Where the Writers Are

Betty, a 15 year old high school student, has dreams of material wealth, which starkly contrasts with the lifestyle that...

Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco.

“I am not young, or thin, or white, or beautiful,” says the narrator of Sinclair’s worldly-wise and entertaining new novel.

Jean “Stevie” Stevenson, the indomitable heroine of Coffee Will Make You Black, is back—somewhat older and wiser, with some experience...