John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism

by KeithGilyard (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $38.80

  In this first major biography of John Oliver Killens, Keith Gilyard examines the life and career of the man who was perhaps the premier African American writer-activist from the 1950s to the 1980s. Gilyard extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens's times and literary achievement-from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond.

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $139.18

  John Oliver Killens' politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion , or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd , were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The author extends his focus to the broad boundaries of Killens' times and literary achievement - from the Old Left to the Black Arts Movement and beyond.