Ishmael Reed is one of America's most renowned African American writers. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and UC Berkeley. Reed is the award-winning author of more than 20 books—novels, essays, plays, and collections of poetry—that have been translated into seven languages. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and has twice been nominated for the National Book Award. Reed lives in Oakland, California. Richard Allen is a three-time Audie®-nominated and Earphone Award–winning narrator who is one of the freshest voices to come onto the audiobook scene. A stage actor by training, Allen has worked on both sides of the Atlantic. He originated the role of Booker T. Washington in the world premiere of Ragtime–The Musical, in addition to several TV appearances on Star Trek: TNG, and ER.
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Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . . Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkling sister city across the Bay, Oakland is itself an American wonder. The city is surrounded by and filled with natural beauty—mountains and hills an... SEE MORE