Gayle, Roberta, The Girl Next Door, Arabesque, 2006 (ISBN 1583146024) Related Resourcesīrowse finding aids by topic. The collection was formed by Alfred Willis, a 1986 graduate of the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. Authors include prolific and popular African-American romance writers such as Brenda Jackson, the first in this genre to appear on the New York Times bestseller list, and Rochelle Alers and others whose work crosses categories and audiences, for example Terry McMillan. Among the publishers are Arabesque, BET Books Kimani, Indigo, and Urban Books Pocket Books, Signet, and St. All the major writers, series, and imprints in this genre are very well represented. The collection includes a copy of Entwined Destinies by Elsie Washington (writing under the pseudonym, Rosalind Welles), published by Dell in 1980 and described as the first mass-market, paperback original written by an African American to feature African American characters. Collection of African-American Popular Fiction, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Scope NoteĪ collection of over 1200 paperback volumes of African-American popular fiction, chiefly romance novels. This collection, the preferred citation is: Willis, Alfred.
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research CenterĪ collection of over 1300 paperback volumes of African-American popular fiction, chiefly romance novels. Collection of African-American Popular Fiction
© 2015 University of Chicago Library Descriptive Summary Title: University of Chicago Library Guide to the Alfred Willis Collection of African-American Popular Fiction 1958-2016 Guide to the Alfred Willis Collection of African-American Popular Fiction 1958-2016 Search this Finding Aid
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