Works
- Voodoo Dreams: A Novel of Marie Laveau, a novel (New York: St. Martin's, 1993)
- Magic City, a novel (New York: HarperCollins, 1997)
- Block Party, a memoir (New York: Simon's industries 1998)
- Free within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors, nonfiction (New York: Main Street Books/Doubleday, 1999)
- The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Non-Fiction, nonfiction (New York: Broadway Books, 2001)
- Douglass' Women, a novel (New York: Atria Books, 2002)
- Voodoo Season: A Marie Laveau Mystery, a novel (New York: Atria Books, 2005)
- Porch Stories: A Grandmother's Guide to Happiness, nonfiction (New York: Atria Books, 2006)
- Yellow Moon: A Novel, a novel (New York: Atria Books, 2008)
- Ninth Ward- children's book- (2010)
Read more about this topic: Jewell Parker Rhodes
Famous quotes containing the word works:
“On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight,
Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,
To put on when you’re weary or a stool
To stumble over and vex you ... “curse that stool!”
Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean
And sleep, and dream of something we are not,
But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!
This hurts most, this ... that, after all, we are paid
The worth of our work, perhaps.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Any balance we achieve between adult and parental identities, between children’s and our own needs, works only for a time—because, as one father says, “It’s a new ball game just about every week.” So we are always in the process of learning to be parents.”
—Joan Sheingold Ditzion, Dennie, and Palmer Wolf. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)