Henry Dumas was an American writer and poet. He was called "an absolute genius" by Toni Morrison, who as a commissioning editor at Random House published posthumous collections of his poetry and of his short stories, in 1974.
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Goodbye, Sweetwater
1988
ISBN 9780938410584
Echo tree
2021
ISBN 9781566896078
Goodbye Sweetwater New and Selected Stories
1990
ISBN 9781569562475