Maxine Lavon Montgomery
Maxine Lavon Montgomery is professor of English at Florida State University, where she teaches courses in Africana, American multi-ethnic, and women’s literature. She is coeditor of New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison’s "God Help the Child" and author of A Circle of One: Rituals of Black Girlhood in Africana Women’s Novels. She is also editor of Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison,Conversations with Edwidge Danticat, and Conversations with Gloria Naylor, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.
Conversations with Edwidge Danticat
Collected interviews ranging from the 2000 publication of this award-winning Haitian-American author’s debut work of fiction, Breath, Eyes, Memory, to a personal interview conducted with the volume editor in 2016
Conversations with Gloria Naylor
Collected interviews with the author of The Women of Brewster Place, The Men of Brewster Place, and Linden Hills
New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child
Race, Culture, and History
The first scholarly collection to examine Morrison’s most recent work of fiction, God Help the Child