Biographies

Beyond Category by John E. Hasse

A Biography of E. Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922), African-American singer and Social Activist by Lisa P. Brevard

Black and Blue by Michael Seth Starr

Black Diva of the Thirties by David E. Weaver

David Merrick - The Abominable Showman by Howard Kissel

Dorothy Dandridge by Donald Bogle

Dorothy Maynor and the Harlem School of the Arts by William F. Rogers

Ella Fitzgerald by Stuart Nicholson

Fabulous Sylvester by Joshua Gamson

Father Hartke by Gilbert V. Hartke; Mary Jo Santo Pietro

The First Female Stars by David W. Menefee

Fred Astaire: His Friends Talk by Sarah Giles

Heat Wave by Donald Bogle

Ira Aldridge by Bernth Lindfors

John E. Owens: Nineteenth Century American Actor and Manager by Thomas A. Bogar

Katherine Dunham by Joyce Aschenbrenner

Lena Horne by Leslie Palmer; Nathan I. Huggins

The Life of Camilla Williams, African American Classical Singer and Opera Diva by Camilla Williams; Stephanie Shonekan

Louis Armstrong - Master of Modernism by Thomas Brothers

Me and the Dead End Kid: Leo Gorcey, the Hollywood Legend, Leo Jr., His Happy Ending by Leo Gorcey, Jr.

Mr. Bojangles by James Haskins; N. R. Mitgang

Night's Dancer by Yaël Tamar Lewin; Janet Collins

Paul Robeson by Sheila T. Boyle; Andrew Bunie

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art by Lindsey R. Swindall

Princess Noire by Nadine Cohodas

Robeson by Arnold H. Lubasch

Sissieretta Jones by Maureen Donnelly Lee

Stormy Weather by James Gavin

With Ossie and Ruby by Ossie Davis; Ruby Dee

Angels Along the Way by Della Reese; Franklin Lett; Mim Eichler

Confessions of a Video Vixen by Karrine Steffans; Karen Hunter

Dyn-O-Mite! Good Times, Bad Times, Our Times : a Memoir by Jimmie Walker; Sal Manna (As told to)

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina by Brenda Dixon Gottschild; Robert Farris Thompson (Foreword by); Ananya Chatterjea (Afterword by)

Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson

Morgan Freeman by Kathleen Tracy

Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming

Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham

Oprah by Kitty Kelley

Oprah Winfrey by Helen S. Garson

Redefining Diva by Sheryl Lee Ralph; Karen Hunter (Contribution by)

Silver Screen Fiend by Patton Oswalt

Sounds Like Me by Sara Bareilles

There Was a Little Girl by Brooke Shields

This Life by Sidney Poitier

True Love by Jennifer Lopez

Whitney Houston, 1963-2012 by James Robert Parish

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling

Will Smith by Lisa Iannucci

Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Anatole Litvak by Michelangelo Capua

Big Mama Thornton : The Life and Music by Spörke, Michael

Colley Cibber by Helene Koon

Crane by Robert Crane; Christopher Fryer

Dalton Trumbo by Larry Ceplair; Christopher Trumbo

Dancing Revelations by Thomas DeFrantz

Dorothy Lee by Jamie Brotherton; Ted Okuda

Edwin Booth by Arthur W. Bloom

Geraldine Farrar by Elizabeth Nash

Jock Mahoney by Gene Freese

Lew Ayres by Lesley L. Coffin; Marya E. Gates (Foreword by)

The Life and Death of Thelma Todd by William Donati

Mama Rose's Turn by Carolyn Quinn

Mamoulian by David Luhrssen

Marie Dressler by Betty Lee

Mary Wickes by Steve Taravella

Mellencamp: American Troubadour by David Masciotra

Pete Duel by Paul Green

Pola Negri by Mariusz Kotowski

Rick Nelson, Rock 'n' Roll Pioneer by Sheree Homer

Shaw and the Actresses Franchise League by Ellen Ecker Dolgin

Swing it! : The Andrews Sisters Story by Sforza, John

Transcending Boundariesa: My Dancing Life by Donald McKayle

Ziegfeld and His Follies by Cynthia Brideson; Sara Brideson