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Glikin's bibliography is a boon to the study of Afro-American creative literature. It names works by and about some 300 writers of essays, poetry, novels, short stories, and plays. The main content is an alphabetical arrangement by author subdivided by genre. Appendix A: "Works about Black Women Writers" and Appendix B: "Authors by Genre" identify the collective body of material that has already been published in this area and combine to make this a guide to the literature as well. The better known Afro-American women writers such as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Nikki Giovanni, etc., are of course included; but for the first time writers who have been less published, such as Mignon Holland Anderson, Terry McMillan, and Lorna V. Williams, are also added to the rolls. This multigenre bibliography updates and complements in part the excellent work done in Afro-American Women Writers 1746-1933: An Anthology and Critical Guide, ed. by Ann Allen Shockley (CH, Jan '89) and All the Women Are White, and All the Blacks Are Men, but Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies, ed. by Gloria T. Hull et al. (CH, Jun '82). One could only wish that the time period covered were longer than 12 years. Recommended for graduate and upper-level undergraduate libraries, especially those with strong collections in black studies, women's studies, or American literature. -F. D. Goff, Bryn Mawr College