Barbara Chase-Riboud (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Barbara Chase-Riboud began her career as a poet, with the collection From Memphis and Peking in 1974. Her second collection, Portrait of a Nude Woman as Cleopatra, sometimes also called a verse novel, was released in 1987.
Achievements
Chase-Riboud became a popular writer almost overnight, with the publication of Sally Hemings, which sold more than one million copies and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for best novel by an American woman in 1979. Ten years later Echo of Lions sold 500,000 copies and confirmed...
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Sally Hemings (African American Literature)Sally Hemings (American Fiction)Sally Hemings (Character Profiles)African American Long Fiction (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)Historical Novel, The (Topical Overview--Long Fiction)
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