Marita Golden
MARITA GOLDEN is the author of works of both fiction and nonfiction. Her books include Migrations of the Heart, Saving Our Sons, and most recently, Don’t Play in the Sun. She is the founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, an organization that supports African American writers. She lives in Mitchellville, Maryland.
Photo © 2004 Luca Pioltelli
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Saving Our Sons
eBook | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-0-307-79475-8 (0-307-79475-X)
July 13, 2011 | $14.99
When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own faily's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden discovered she was...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-0-307-79475-8 (0-307-79475-X)
July 13, 2011 | $14.99
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When Marita Golden decided to write her personal account of the challenges of raising a black son in today's world, she didn't intend to write more than her own faily's story. But through the story of raising her son against the backdrop of a racially divided society, Golden discovered she was...
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And Do Remember Me
eBook | 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-79491-8 (0-307-79491-1)
June 15, 2011 | $14.99
"An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life."
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1963, two very different African-American women meet, each to discover in the other an elegant completion of herself. Jessie...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 208 pages | Ballantine Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-79491-8 (0-307-79491-1)
June 15, 2011 | $14.99
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"An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life."
ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1963, two very different African-American women meet, each to discover in the other an elegant completion of herself. Jessie...
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trade paperback.
A Miracle Every Day
eBook | 140 pages | Anchor | Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-79476-5 (0-307-79476-8)
May 11, 2011 | $12.99
A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical analysis. But, asks Marita Golden, where are the studies that analyze the strengths of single mothers, the positive adaptive skills learned by...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 140 pages | Anchor | Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-79476-5 (0-307-79476-8)
May 11, 2011 | $12.99
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A Miracle Everyday takes an illuminating and intimate look at flourishing single-mother families. Single motherhood and the children of single mothers have been the subject of overwhelmingly negative statistical analysis. But, asks Marita Golden, where are the studies that analyze the strengths of single mothers, the positive adaptive skills learned by...
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Skin Deep
eBook | 320 pages | Anchor | Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-79478-9 (0-307-79478-4)
May 11, 2011 | $13.99
Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as...
Written by Marita Golden and Susan Shreve
eBook | 320 pages | Anchor | Social Science - Women's Studies
978-0-307-79478-9 (0-307-79478-4)
May 11, 2011 | $13.99
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Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as...
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The Word
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Broadway | Literary Criticism & Collections - African-American & Black
978-0-7679-2991-2 (0-7679-2991-8)
January 11, 2011 | $16.99
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual...
Written by Marita Golden
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Broadway | Literary Criticism & Collections - African-American & Black
978-0-7679-2991-2 (0-7679-2991-8)
January 11, 2011 | $16.99
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Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual...
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The Word
eBook | 256 pages | Broadway | Literary Criticism & Collections - African-American & Black
978-0-307-72077-1 (0-307-72077-2)
January 11, 2011 | $12.99
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 256 pages | Broadway | Literary Criticism & Collections - African-American & Black
978-0-307-72077-1 (0-307-72077-2)
January 11, 2011 | $12.99
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Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing have deeply affected their lives by expanding the conceptual...
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The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
eBook | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-75716-6 (0-307-75716-1)
September 1, 2010 | $13.99
In The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s, we rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Nella Larsen's subject is the struggle of sensitive, spirited heroines to find a place for themselves in a hostile world. Passing is the story...
eBook | 304 pages | Anchor | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-75716-6 (0-307-75716-1)
September 1, 2010 | $13.99
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In The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen, whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s, we rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Nella Larsen's subject is the struggle of sensitive, spirited heroines to find a place for themselves in a hostile world. Passing is the story...
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It's All Love
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-7679-1686-8 (0-7679-1686-7)
February 3, 2009 | $18.95
Written by Marita Golden
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-7679-1686-8 (0-7679-1686-7)
February 3, 2009 | $18.95
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In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts...
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It's All Love
eBook | 352 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-7679-3158-8 (0-7679-3158-0)
February 3, 2009 | $13.99
In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 352 pages | Broadway | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors)
978-0-7679-3158-8 (0-7679-3158-0)
February 3, 2009 | $13.99
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In It’s All Love, Black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred. Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she woke up certain that she would meet her soul mate in “My Own Happy Ending”; memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts...
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Migrations of the Heart
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-0-307-48824-4 (0-307-48824-1)
December 18, 2008 | $12.99
Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 240 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-0-307-48824-4 (0-307-48824-1)
December 18, 2008 | $12.99
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Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Don't Play in the Sun
eBook | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Women
978-0-307-42560-7 (0-307-42560-6)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Women
978-0-307-42560-7 (0-307-42560-6)
December 18, 2007 | $13.99
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“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about...
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trade paperback.
After
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Broadway | Fiction
978-0-7679-1778-0 (0-7679-1778-2)
July 17, 2007 | $21.00
In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.
For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly consumed by the mean streets...
Written by Marita Golden
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Broadway | Fiction
978-0-7679-1778-0 (0-7679-1778-2)
July 17, 2007 | $21.00
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In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.
For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly consumed by the mean streets...
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After
eBook | 256 pages | Doubleday | Fiction
978-0-385-51702-7 (0-385-51702-5)
May 16, 2006 | $13.99
In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.
For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly consumed by the mean streets...
Written by Marita Golden
eBook | 256 pages | Doubleday | Fiction
978-0-385-51702-7 (0-385-51702-5)
May 16, 2006 | $13.99
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In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.
For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapable of showing him affection and nearly consumed by the mean streets...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Don't Play in the Sun
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Women
978-1-4000-7736-6 (1-4000-7736-2)
January 4, 2005 | $18.00
“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about...
Written by Marita Golden
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Women
978-1-4000-7736-6 (1-4000-7736-2)
January 4, 2005 | $18.00
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“Don’t play in the sun. You’re going to have to get a light-skinned husband for the sake of your children as it is.”
In these words from her mother, novelist and memoirist Marita Golden learned as a girl that she was the wrong color. Her mother had absorbed “colorism” without thinking about...
Also available as an
eBook.
Migrations of the Heart
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-1-4000-7831-8 (1-4000-7831-8)
January 4, 2005 | $17.00
In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other...
Written by Marita Golden
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Anchor | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - People of Color
978-1-4000-7831-8 (1-4000-7831-8)
January 4, 2005 | $17.00
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In her classic memoir, distinguished author, television executive, and activist Marita Golden beautifully recounts an astounding journey to Africa and back.
Marita Golden was raised in Washington, D.C., by a mother who was a cleaning woman and a father who was taxi-driver. For all their struggles, with life and each other...
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