A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Peng...

In Myself Painting Clarence Major seeks to re-create for readers the inexpressible feeling that c...

Beginning and ending in Clarence Major's atelier, My Studio demonstrates how art can influence ou...

For over forty years, Clarence Major (b. 1936) has engaged several artistic and literary pursuits...

Deeply felt and brimming with humor and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the late...

A retrospective of poems written during the 1950s to the present, including selections from each ...

This novel, narrated by Baldy, a Navajo Hopi guitar player, tells the story of Zuni folk singer P...

People in a town in Connecticut that have just passed a law requiring all men to carry all women ...

This bluesy, meticulously envisioned collection establishes Major as an important voice in Americ...

Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.

A showcase of skillful artwork from the renowned artist

Chicago Heat and Other Stories employs a gorgeous purity and simplicity of language in a series o...

This first collected essays of a National Book Award finalist for Poetry is a portrait of the art...

A book-length poem by an African-American author that uses the city of Venice as its backdrop, co...

Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. Whether you've known Major's work for decade...

The follow-up to Clarence Major's National Book Award finalist volume, 'Configurations.'

Swallow the Lake

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An engaging new novel by African-American literary icon Clarence Major reveals personal and polit...

In Down and Up, Clarence Major makes use of American and European public places, their character ...

'This novel follows two friends, one Black and one white, who grew up wards of the state in New Y...

'Mark Smith, is a sensitive thirty-seven-year-old environmental scientist of mixed race. He tries...

PEN REGINALD LOCKETT LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN LITERATURE • PRIZE-WINNING NOVE...