Gayl Jones

26 books

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

The Birdcatcher

Gayl Jones

fiction historical literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

216 pages | first published 1986

Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate

Black Women Writers at Work

Claudia Tate with Toni Cade Bambara (Contributor), Gwendolyn Brooks (Contributor), Tillie Olsen (Contributor), Alexis DeVeaux (Contributor), Sonia Sanchez (Contributor), Toni Morrison (Contributor), Gayl Jones (Contributor), Ntozake Shange (Contributor), Sherley Anne Williams (Contributor), Kristin Hunter (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), Nikki Giovanni (Contributor), Audre Lorde (Contributor), Maya Angelou (Contributor)

nonfiction feminism emotional reflective slow-paced

296 pages | first published 1983

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction by Octavia E. Butler, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Colleen McElroy, John Edgar Wideman, Ishmael Reed, Wesley Brown, Charles R. Johnson, Randall Kenan, Clarence Major, Darryl Pinckney, Mary Monroe, Xam Wilson Cartier, Paule Marshall, Don Belton, David Bradley, William Demby, Fatima Shaik, Gayl Jones, Steven Corbin, J. California Cooper, Angela Jackson, Carolyn Cole, Ernest J. Gaines, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Toni Cade Bambara, Trey Ellis, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Doris Jean Austin, Arthur Flowers, Melvin Dixon, Amiri Baraka, Richard Perry, Peter Harris, Samuel R. Delany, Connie Rose Porter, Tina McElroy Ansa, Percival L. Everett, Sandra Hollin Flowers, Becky Birtha, Bill Williams Forde, Marita Golden, Ntozake Shange, John McCluskey, Barbara Neely, Rita Dove, James Alan McPherson, William Melvin Kelley, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction

Octavia E. Butler, Grace Edwards-Yearwood, Colleen McElroy, John Edgar Wideman, Ishmael Reed, Wesley Brown, Charles R. Johnson, Randall Kenan, Clarence Major, Darryl Pinckney, Mary Monroe, Xam Wilson Cartier, Paule Marshall, Don Belton, David Bradley, William Demby, Fatima Shaik, Gayl Jones, Steven Corbin, J. California Cooper, Angela Jackson, Carolyn Cole, Ernest J. Gaines, Kristin Hunter Lattany, Toni Cade Bambara, Trey Ellis, Nathaniel Mackey, Wanda Coleman, Doris Jean Austin, Arthur Flowers, Melvin Dixon, Amiri Baraka, Richard Perry, Peter Harris, Samuel R. Delany, Connie Rose Porter, Tina McElroy Ansa, Percival L. Everett, Sandra Hollin Flowers, Becky Birtha, Bill Williams Forde, Marita Golden, Ntozake Shange, John McCluskey, Barbara Neely, Rita Dove, James Alan McPherson, William Melvin Kelley, Gloria Naylor, Terry McMillan, Safiya Henderson-Holmes

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

720 pages | first published 1990

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Corregidora

Gayl Jones

fiction historical dark emotional sad medium-paced

192 pages | first published 1975

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers by Mary Ward Brown, Doris Betts, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Ellen Gilchrist, Gayl Jones, Elizabeth Cox, Margaret Gibson, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Hood, Mary Noailles Murfree, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Eudora Welty, Tina McElroy Ansa, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason, Susie Mee, Elizabeth Spencer, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers

Mary Ward Brown, Doris Betts, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Ellen Gilchrist, Gayl Jones, Elizabeth Cox, Margaret Gibson, Ellen Glasgow, Mary Hood, Mary Noailles Murfree, Lee Smith, Dorothy Allison, Eudora Welty, Tina McElroy Ansa, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Bobbie Ann Mason, Susie Mee, Elizabeth Spencer, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan

fiction short stories emotional reflective medium-paced

512 pages | first published 1995

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work by Horace A. Porter

Dreaming Out Loud: African American Novelists at Work

Horace A. Porter with Langston Hughes (Contributor), John Edgar Wideman (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Richard Wright (Contributor), Martha Southgate (Contributor), Ishmael Reed (Contributor), Walter Mosley (Contributor), Charles Johnson (Contributor), Ernest J. Gaines (Contributor), James Weldon Johnson (Contributor), Arna Bontemps (Contributor), Alice Walker (Contributor), Margaret Walker (Contributor), James Alan McPherson (Contributor), Terry McMillan (Contributor), Toni Morrison (Contributor), Gayl Jones (Contributor), W.E.B. Du Bois (Contributor), Chester Himes (Contributor), Ralph Ellison (Contributor)

nonfiction essays informative medium-paced

240 pages | first published 2015

Eva's Man by Gayl Jones

Eva's Man

Gayl Jones

fiction race challenging dark reflective slow-paced

180 pages | first published 1976

The Granta Book of the American Short Story by Leonard Michaels, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, Peter Taylor, Joy Williams, Paul Bowles, Amy Tan, Jane Bowles, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison, Jean Stafford, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, Gayl Jones, Barry Hannah, Tim O'Brien, David Leavitt, Richard Ford, Robert Coover, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver, James Salter, Grace Paley, Richard Yeats, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tobias Wolff, William H. Gass, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Max Apple, Richard Bausch, Shirley Jackson, Jamaica Kincaid, William Kotzwinkle, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

Leonard Michaels, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Cheever, James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, Peter Taylor, Joy Williams, Paul Bowles, Amy Tan, Jane Bowles, Ann Beattie, Mary Robison, Jean Stafford, Stuart Dybek, Joyce Carol Oates, Gayl Jones, Barry Hannah, Tim O'Brien, David Leavitt, Richard Ford, Robert Coover, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Harold Brodkey, Donald Barthelme, Kurt Vonnegut, Eudora Welty, Raymond Carver, James Salter, Grace Paley, Richard Yeats, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tobias Wolff, William H. Gass, Wallace Stegner, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, Max Apple, Richard Bausch, Shirley Jackson, Jamaica Kincaid, William Kotzwinkle, James Alan McPherson, Stanley Elkin

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

712 pages | first published 1993

The Healing by Gayl Jones

The Healing

Gayl Jones

fiction literary informative reflective slow-paced

283 pages | first published 1998

Mosquito by Helene Atwan, Gayl Jones

Mosquito

Helene Atwan, Gayl Jones

fiction race challenging reflective medium-paced

624 pages | first published 1998