An engrossing personal story and a razor-sharp cultural critique, Bird at My Window is the third title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed Black Arts Movement Series.īird at My Window draws our attention to an important phenomenon of recent national history. Unable to recall the circumstances that brought him to commit this unthinkable act, Wade retraces his steps and reveals the rich complexity of mid-twentieth-century Harlem and its mothers, sons, and daughters whose aspirations prevail and perish within both white and black America. Rosa Guy's powerful first novel follows Wade Williams, a young and brilliant black man who wakes in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his sister. Welcome Bird at My Window.' - Maya Angelou

Rosa Guy is a fine writer and she continually gives us new issues to contemplate. Its brave examination of a loving, yet painful, relationship between a Black mother and her son is even more important today. ' This book was welcomed when it was first published in 1966. Her work has received the Coretta Scott King Award, The New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year citation, and the American Library Association's Best Book Award. On Guard was active in a famous protest at the United Nations of the American-sponsored Bay of Pigs Cuban invasion and was active in support of the Congolese liberation leader Patrice Lumumba. Other members included, Harold Cruse and LeRoi Jones. Guy was a member of a Black nationalist literary organization, On Guard for Freedom, which was founded on the Lower East Side of New York City by Calvin Hicks. John Henrik Clarke, Willard Moore and Walter Christmas, co-founded the Harlem Writer's Guild. In 1950, Guy, along with John Oliver Killens, Dr. She attended New York University where she studied theater and writing. During World War II Rosa she was a part of the American Negro Theatre.

Later her family moved to Harlem, New York where they died when Rosa was very young.

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