ABSTRACT
This interview is inspired in part by Claudia Tate’s classic, Black Women Writers at Work (1983). In this volume, Tate conducted and collected interviews with some of the top Black women writers of our time, including Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Toni Morrison. Her questions were wide-ranging; she asked them about the love of their craft, political and social themes that had impacted their work, the influences they have had over time, as well as their thoughts on current debates within literary criticism, Black feminism, Black politics and history, and the culture at large.
