Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds: Stories by and about Black Women »

This book combines in one volume two now classic short story collections.  The editor has added a new introduction and prefatory material.



"Mary Helen Washington has had a greater impact upon the formation of the canon of Afro-American literature than has any other scholar." —The New York Times Book Review

Joyce Carol Oates

The anthology is an excellent one, and special mention must be made of Mary Helen Washington's superb introduction and bibliography. -- Ms. Magazine