Expanding the Foundation: African American Authors of Young Adult Literature, 1980-2000 - Paperback

by Steven T. Bickmore (Editor), Shanetia P. Clark (Editor)

Within this book we survey and discuss the history of African American Authors of Young Adult Literature.

Author Biography

Steven T. Bickmore is an Associate professor of English Education at UNLV and maintains a weekly academic blog on YA literature (http: //www.yawednesday.com/). He is a past editor of The ALAN Review (2009-2014) and a founding editor of Study and Scrutiny: Research in Young Adult Literature. Shanetia P. Clark, PhD is an associate professor of literacy in the Department of Early and Elementary Education at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland. Her interests include young adult and children's literature, the exploration of aesthetic experiences within reading and writing classrooms, and writing pedagogy