BOOKS My Confederate Kinfolk, Basic Books Civitas, 2006 Amistad, libretto, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1997 Maker of Saints, a novel, Scribner, 1996 Book-of-the-Month Club selection; 1997 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Malcolm X: The Great Photographs, Stewart,Tabori & Chang, 1993 Book-of-the-Month Club selection; American Institute of Graphic Arts Award 1959, a novel, Grove Weidenfeld, 1992 Book-of-the-Month Club featured alternate; LA Times Book Award nominee; American Library Association Book of the Year nominee Playing the Changes, poetry, Wesleyan University Press, 1985 X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, libretto, Nani Press, 1986 All the Renegade Ghosts Rise, poetry, Anemone Press, 1978 Poetry, plays, and articles in over 30 anthologies.

FILM Maker of Saints, Co-producer, Screenwriter, DCI Productions, 2010  Paid in Full, Miramax, 2002, Screenwriter

PLAYS The Sojourner Truth Washing Society, work-in-progress, 2010 The Souls of Black Folk, Adaptation for Five Actors, National Black Arts Festival, 2003 Everybody's Ruby: Story of a Murder in Florida, Kenny Leon, director, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1999 Ava & Cat in Mexico, Staged Reading, McCarter Theater, Princeton, 1994 Adaptation, Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, George C. Wolfe, director, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1990 Paint, Staged Reading, Basement Workshop, New York, 1982 Shadow & Veil, w/ Ntozake Shange, Jessica Hagedorn, Laurie Carlos, et. al., New Heritage Theater, New York, 1982 Sweet Talk and Stray Desires, one-woman show, Chelsea Westside Theater Center, New York, 1979 Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon, w/ Shange &Hagedorn, Oz Scott, director, NY Shakespeare Festival, 1977

MUSICAL WORKS Dark Passages, text, multimedia documentary oratoria on the internment of Japanese Americans, Miya Masaoka, composer. String quartet, samples, Buddhist chants, testimony from former internees and resisters, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 1998. Amistad, an opera, libretto, Anthony Davis, composer, full length work for orchestra and double chorus, George C. Wolfe, director, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, World Premiere, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1997 A Woman Unadorned, text, Bernadette Speach, composer, 30 minute work, piano & spoken word, Lincoln Center, 1994 Baobab Four, text, Bernadette Speach, composer, 30 minute work for six musicians and two voices, P.S. 122, 1994 The E. & O. Line, an electronic opera, libretto, Anne LeBaron, composer, full length work, University of the District of Columbia; Carter Barron Amphitheater, D.C., 1989 X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, an opera, libretto, Anthony Davis, composer, full length opera, commissioned by The Kitchen (NYC), World Premiere, New York City Opera, 1986 X-cerpts, A. Davis, composer, full length work for chamber orchestra and four singers, San Francisco Arts Festival, 1987 Steppin' Other Shores, text, Joseph Jarman, composer, full length work, music, spoken word & dance, New Music America;The Kitchen, 1983 See Tee's New Blues, full length work, spoken word & piano, Anthony Davis, composer, The Kitchen, 1982

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