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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books
  • First Book:
    July 1986
  • Latest Book:
    April 2017
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Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • The compelling, beautifully told story of three black women who meet at a New England college in the late sixties and form a friendship that will guide them through the changes, the joys, and the tears of the coming years....



  • "A novel of impressive artistry and power." The Washington Post
    Caught in the web of history, generations of an African-American family play out their parts on a world stage that constantly changes, protected always by the love of one another, whi...



  • "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 1...



  • In The Edge of Heaven, Marita Golden has fashioned a deceptively simple story of a family whose lives have been shattered by a single moment of angry carelessness--told through the eyes of Teresa Singletary, a twenty-year-old college student with an ...



  • 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 Ice have so many African-Amer...



  • 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 incapab...



  • 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 mat...



  • From an award-winning author, a moving story of acceptance, adaptation, and unconditional love in the face of Alzheimer's disease. You just can't plan for this kind of thing. Diane Tate certainly hasn't. She never expected to slowly lose her ...



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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 ...





Award-Winning Books by Marita Golden

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2007 Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marita Golden has published 9 books.

Marita Golden does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wide Circumference of Love, was published in April 2017.

The first book by Marita Golden, A Woman's Place, was published in July 1986.

No. Marita Golden does not write books in series.