Clarence Major
Author of Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories
About the Author
Artist and writer Clarence Major grew up in Chicago and later received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Ohio. He has been a judge for the National Book Awards and was twice named to the panel of the National Endowment of the Arts. Major has written eight novels including "Such Was The Season" show more and "Painted Turtle," which received citations from the New York Times Book Review as Summer Reading and Notable Book of the Year, and "My Amputations," which received the Western States Book Award. Major published "Juba Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang," as well as nine other books of poetry that won a National Council of the Arts Award and two Pushcart Prizes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Clarence Major
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Editor; Contributor — 105 copies
Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang (Penguin Reference Books) (1994) 56 copies, 1 review
The new Black poetry 2 copies
Parking Lots 1 copy
Associated Works
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Contributor — 279 copies, 1 review
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (2020) — Contributor — 195 copies, 4 reviews
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributor — 119 copies
Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (1994) — Contributor — 94 copies
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Contributor — 65 copies
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contributor — 44 copies
This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets (2024) — Contributor — 41 copies, 1 review
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Contributor — 30 copies, 1 review
Oyez Review : Vol. 8, No. 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
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