An extraordinary collection of interviews with black women writers about their work, first published in 1983 and funded in part by Howard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. Each chapter features an edited transcript with a different writer. Interviewees include Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Alexis DeVeaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, Gayl Jones, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker and Sherley Anne Williams. In the preface Tille Olsen describes the interviews as “a book of revelation, of haunting challenge, opening on to central concerns not only of writing, but of life, of living today.”

London: Oldcastle Books, 1985. 213 pages. 20 x 13 x 2 cm. First UK edition. Paperback with laminated covers, in very good condition.