Chicago: Noble Press, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of her 4 years at the Washington Post's new Sunday magazine, where she was both the first African American writer and the first woman writer - and also a look back at her childhood, and at her life and her attempts to "walk the thin line between Uncle Tomming and Mau-Mauing." 243 pp. ISBN: 1-879360241.