Contributors
- Contributors
Alvin Ailey, who died on December 1, 1989, was the founder and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in New York. Among his numerous awards were the United Nations Peace Medal and first prize at the 1970 International Dance Festival in Paris.
José Alcántara Almánzar, fiction writer, scholar, and literary critic, is the author of five collections of short stories dating from the early 1980s, many of which are gathered in a recent anthology, El sabor de lo prohibido (1993). He lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Julia Alvarez was born in the Dominican Republic, but came with her family to New York City as a child, in circumstances closely resembling those of her autobiographical novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) and Yo! (1997), winners of numerous literary awards. She has also published In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), a collection of essays, Something to Declare (1998), and several volumes of poetry: The Housekeeping Book (1994), The Other Side / El Otro Lado (1995) and Homecoming: New Selected Poems (1996). Her writings have been published in a great range of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Hispanic Culture Review, Latina, Conjunctions, USA Today, The Washington Post Magazine, and The American Scholar. She teaches English and creative writing at Middlebury College. Her latest work of fiction is a novel, In The Name of Salomé (2000).
James Baldwin, novelist, essayist, and playwright, died December 1, 1987, in France. Born in Harlem in 1924, he made his literary debut in 1953, with the publication of his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain. His last volume, The Price of a Ticket, a collection of essays, appeared in 1985.
Romare Bearden died on March 12, 1988, in New York City. With Carol Holty, he wrote The Painter's Mind: A Study of the Relations of Structure and Space. See the tributes to Mr. Bearden in Callaloo 11.3 (Summer 1988): 401-47.
Hal Bennett, a native of Virginia, is the author of many books of fiction, including Wait Until Evening, A Wilderness of Vines, Seventh Heaven, and Insanity Runs in Our Family. Winner of the Callaloo Award for Fiction in 1983, he lives in Mexico.
Octavia E. Butler, who lives in California, is author of a number of books of science fiction, including Mind of My Mind, Kindred, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster, as well as the Parable series (Parable of the Sower [1993] and Parable of the Talents [1998]). She is a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
Maryse Condé was born in Guadeloupe. She is the author of several novels, including Hérémakhonon, Ségou: les Murailles de terre, Moi, Tituba, sorcière noire de Salem, La vie scèlérate, and Traversée de la mangrove. She is also author of La parole des femmes: essai sur de romancières de Antilles de langue française, La civilisation du bossale, and other studies of literature and culture. A new book, Tales from the Heart, is scheduled to appear in late 2001.
Edwidge Danticat is author of two novels, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) and The Farming of Bones (1999), as well as Krik! Krak! (1995), a short story collection which was a finalist for the National Book Award. When she was twelve, she emigrated from Haiti to the U.S. to join her [End Page 678] parents in Brooklyn. A graduate of Barnard College, she received the M.F.A. degree in creative writing from Brown University in 1993.
Samuel R. Delany, a four-time winner of the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America, is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Temple University. His numerous books of prose fiction and nonfiction prose include Dhalgren, Silent Interviews: On Languages, Sex, Science Fiction, & Some Comics, Atlantis: Three Tales, and The Mad Man.
Brent Hayes Edwards is an assistant professor in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. He is currently completing a book called The Practice of Diaspora, which will be published by Harvard University Press. He is an associate editor of Callaloo.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994) is author of the novel...
