Marita Golden

A Miracle Every Day

de Marita Golden

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...

Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

de Marita Golden & Susan Shreve

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...

The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing

de Marita Golden

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...

It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends

de Marita Golden

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...

Don't Play in the Sun: One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex

de Marita Golden

“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...

Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

de Marita Golden

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....

After: A Novel

de Marita Golden

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....

Gumbo: Celebration of African American Writers

de E. Lynn Harris & Marita Golden

A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars.

Not since Terry McMillan’s Breaking...

Saving Our Sons

de Marita Golden

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...

And Do Remember Me

de Marita Golden

"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...