Rosa Guy

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1979
  • Latest Book:
    September 2005
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Books in Order: 16 titles

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  • Ruby

    Ruby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives e...

  • Bird at My Window

    "What happens to a dream deferred?" asked Langston Hughes. Bird at My Window answers that question with a psychological study of a black man whose aspirations are subverted by his environment. Wade Williams wakes up in a mental hospital and is tol...

  • The Sun, the Sea, a Touch of the Wind

    Having found hard-won success, a brash, attractive black artist suffers a nervous breakdown and flees to the Haiti of the 1970s, where she incurs the wrath of the authorities and saves a helpless child. 10,000 first printing. Tour....

  • The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III

    In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl relates his anger and confusion as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother...

  • Billy the Great

  • The Music of Summer

    After being spurned by her best friend and a group of light-skinned, upper-middle-class girls vacationing on Cape Cod, Sarah develops a loving friendship with the Caribbean-born Madame Arnaud and her son Jean Pierre....

  • My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl

    "Rosa Guy''s tropical retelling of The Little Mermaid"" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class fami-ly feels t...

  • Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog

  • Mother Crocodile



  • And I Heard a Bird Sing

    Eighteen-year-old Imamu's newly-found contentment, with his job and the apartment he shares with his frail mother, is shattered when he is inadvertently drawn into the sinister events taking place in a wealthy household where he has been delivering g...

  • Friends

    A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship.

    Phyllisia Cathy—She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up...

  • A Measure of Time

  • New Guys Around the Block

    Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes....

  • Edith Jackson

  • Mirror of Her Own

  • Disappearance

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosa Guy has published 16 books.

Rosa Guy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ruby, was published in September 2005.

The first book by Rosa Guy, Disappearance, was published in November 1979.

No. Rosa Guy does not write books in series.
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