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Elena Roses is Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American
Studies at Wellesley College.
Her books include: Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies
of 100 Black Women Writers, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press,
1996)
and Voices of the Storyteller: Cuba’s Lino Nov·s Calvo
(Greenwood Press, 1986).