$5.00 Vintage Postcard Green tree frogs Louisiana's Atchafalaya Swamp, home to these two Green tree frogs, is also a nesting and feeding habitat for more than 170 bird species. To find out how you can help save America's wildlife by becoming a member, call the National Audubon Society
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$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ DARRYL PINCKNEY, New York, N.Y., October 18, 1995 Darryl Pinckney (b. 1953) is an award-winning critic, essayist, and novelist whose witty, brilliant, and lyrical prose has been called as good as any now being written in English. His picaresque debut novel, High Cotton 1992), was lauded for its excruciating honesty and total freedom from restraint.
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ DORI SANDERS, Charlotte, N.C., April 3, 1994 Dori Sanders (b. 1934) was raised on her family's peach farm in York County, South Carolina, which is still in operation. Her first novel, Clover 1990), draws on that setting to create an instantly memorable tale of race relations in the modern South. Her second novel, Her Own Place (1993), was equally well received. POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ CONNIE BRISCOE, Falls Church, Va., February 15, 1996 Connie Briscoe added a fresh new voice to contemporary fiction with her debut novel, Sisters d- Lovers (1994), a witty and instructive tale of three sisters living in Washington, D.C. Her literary gifts were reaffirmed in the best-selling Big Girls Don't Cry (1996). Deaf for most of her adult life, Briscoe is former managing editor of American Annals of the Deaf at Gallaudet University. POMEGRANATE BOX
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ A. J. UERDELLE, Brooklyn, N.Y., March 1, 1996 A. J. Verdelle (b. 1960) made an immediate impact on the literary scene with her debut novel, The Good Negress (1995), which won wide praise and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Verdelle founded and operates a successful consulting company in New York, Applied Statistics & Research.
$5.00 Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ TONI MORRISON, New York, N.Y., February 13, 1974 Toni Morrison (b. 1931) creates richly textured prose that mines her experience as an African American woman in a predominantly white society. For her entire body of work-from her first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), through Jazz (1992)-she was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature. © Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ ANN PETRY, Old Saybrook, Conn., March 12, 1996 Ann Petry (b. 1908) grew up in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where her family ran the local drugstore. In 1938 she moved to Harlem, attended Columbia University, and began writing fiction. Her first novel, The Street (1946), was a stunning debut and is now regarded as an American classic. Her later novels Country Places and The Narrows were set in New England, to which she returned in 1948. © Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ ERNEST GAINES, San Francisco, Calif., March 13, 1975 Ernest Gaines (b. 1933) was raised in the rich black culture and storytelling tradition of rural Louisiana but was deeply influenced by Russian writers such as Chekhov, Gogol, and Turgenev. The "austere dignity" of his prose has filled six novels, including Catherine Carmier (1964), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), and, most recently, A Lesson Before Dying (1993). © Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ ROBERT HAYDEN, Washington, D.C., October 27, 1976 Robert Hayden (1913-1980) was the first African American to be named Consultant in Poetry (now Poet Laureate) at the Library of Congress. His poetic voice, rooted in black experience, had a universal vision that resounded with power in such works as A Ballad of Remembrance (1962) and Words in the Mourning Time (1970). © Jill Krementz POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ STANLEY CROUCH, LEON FORREST, ALBERT MURRAY, and JAMES ALAN MCPHERSON, New York, N.Y., May 26, 1994 The influential writers Stanley Crouch (b. 1945), Leon Forrest (b. 1937), Albert Murray (b. 1916), and James Alan McPherson (b. 1943) are pictured here paying homage to a mentor and generous friend, Ralph Ellison, following a memorial service at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ RITA DOUE, Charlottesville, Va., March 4, 1995 Rita Dove (b. 1952) has won numerous awards for her verse, including a Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah (1987), a story-poem about her grandparents. In 1993 she was appointed U.S. Poet Laureate, becoming the youngest poet and the first African American to receive this honor.
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ ISHMAEL REED, Berkeley, Calif., March 22, 1974 Ishmael Reed (b. 1938) has, from his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers (1967), and his first book of poetry, Conjure (1972), been a provocative presence in contemporary writing. His work is filled with tricks of time and typography, voodoo, Egyptian symbolism, satire, and invective. A collection of his best essays, Writin' Is Fightin', was published in 1990. POMEGRANATE
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ DEREK WALCOTT, New York, N.Y., January 18, 1986 Derek Walcott (b. 1930) won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1992, becoming the first native Caribbean to be so honored. "In him," stated the Academy, "West Indian culture has found its great poet." A brilliant scholar and thinker, Walcott has taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities and has written numerous volumes of poetry and plays.
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ SONIA SANCHEZ, Philadelphia, Pa., March 14, 1996 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) is a poet, playwright, and professor (at Temple University) who has committed herself to political progressivism since the 1960s. She has written and edited numerous volumes, including We a Baddddd People 1970), We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans (1973), and A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women 1974).
$5.00 Vintage Postcard Black Writers PHOTOGRAPHS BY JILL KREMENTZ VERONICA CHAMBERS, New York, N.Y., June 4, 1996 Veronica Chambers (b. 1970) turned her singleminded desire to be a writer into a rite of passage and an act of redemption, capturing both in her spellbinding debut, Mama's Girl 1996). A memoir of her Brooklyn childhood, the book also chronicles her swift rise in the literary world, which includes her former editorial position at the New York Times Magazine. POMEGRANATE
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