A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers

A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers is an important research tool because it provides access to so many writers and is recommended for academic and large public libraries. - Booklist Reference Books Bulletin
...This compilation provides access to an array of primary and secondary source materials by and about 900 African-American women, writers. Inclusiveness is the hall-mark of this bibliography. Jordan lists authors of all genres-poetry, novels, essays, memoirs, and plays-from more than two centuries of American literary history. ...a commendable effort to organize useful, but often hard to find, material on a large number of famous and little-known African-American women writers. This book belongs on the reference shelf of academic and large public libraries. - RQ Spring 1994
. . . Since this spans more than two centuries and because it treats many more writers than . . . much of its useful information augments bibliographic access to these creative women's works and to readers' responses to those works. . . . students of African American women writers . . . should be grateful for the timesaving guidance it offers. - Wilson Library Bulletin
. . . the most complete record of the literary achievement of black American women, this bibliography documents the works of and about 900 writers from Theresa Williams Abram to Sister Zubena. - 0B0CALA News
The only work that covers so vast an array of African American women writers; highly recommended for all libraries. - Choice