Rosa Guy

Rosa Cuthbert Guy () () adalah penulis kelahiran Trinidad berkebangsaan Amerika Serikat yang berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat bersama keluarganya sejak kecil, dan tumbuh di New York. Menjadi yatim-piatu sejak muda di lingkungan rumah yatim piatu, namanya dikenal melalui buku-buku fiksi untuk kalangan dewasa muda yang memberikan dukungan dalam hubungan.

Dia tinggal dan bekerja di New York City, di mana dia merupakan salah satu di antara pendiri Harlem Writers Guild tahun 1950, yang cukup berpengaruh dalam rangka mendorong para penulis keturunan Afrika-Amerika untuk menerbitkan karya-karyanya. Dia meninggal akibat sakit kanker, pada tanggal 3 Juni 2012.

Penghargaan 
 Buku Terpuji dari The New York Times (The Friends, in 1973)
 Coretta Scott King Award
 American Library Association′s Best Book for Young Adults Award.

Bibliografi 
 Bird at My Window (London: Souvenir Press, 1966; Allison & Busby, 1985; Virago, 1989; Coffee House Press, 2001)
 Children of Longing (essays, introduction by Julius Lester; Holt, Rinehart, 1971)
 The Friends (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973; Macmillan Educational, 1982; New York: Bantam Books, 1983; Perfection Learning, 1995; Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1996; Heinemann, 1996; Glencoe McGraw-Hill, 2001)
 Ruby (New York: Viking Press, 1976; London: Gollancz, 1981; Puffin Books, 1989)
 Edith Jackson (New York: Viking Juvenile, 1978; London: Gollancz, 1978; Longman, 1989; Puffin, 1995)
 The Disappearance (New York: Delacorte, 1979; Puffin, 1985)
 Mirror of Her Own (New York: Delacorte, 1981)
 Mother Crocodile: An Uncle Amadou Tale from Senegal (illustrated by John Steptoe - Coretta Scott King Award; New York: Delacorte, 1981; Doubleday, 1993). A translation of Birago Diop's Maman-Caïman (1961)
 A Measure of Time (New York: Henry Holt, 1983; London: Virago, 1983)
 New Guys Around the Block (New York: Delacorte, 1983; London: Gollancz, 1983; Laurel Leaf, 1992: Puffin, 1995)
 Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog (London: Gollancz, 1984; New York: Delacorte, 1985; Puffin, 1986; Nelson Thornes Ltd, 1988)
 My Love, My Love, or the Peasant Girl (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985; London: Virago, 2000; Coffee House Press, 2002)
 And I Heard a Bird Sing (New York: Delacorte, 1987; London: Gollancz, 1987; Puffin, 1994)
 The Ups and Downs of Carl Davis III (Delacorte, 1989; Gollancz, 1989; Collins Educational, 1994)
 Billy the Great Child (London: Gollancz, 1991; New York: Delacorte, 1992)
 The Music of Summer (New York: Delacorte, 1992)
 The Sun, the Sea, A Touch of the Wind (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1995)

Referensi

Bacaan lanjutan 
J. Saunders Redding, review of Bird at My Window, The Crisis 103.3 (April 1966), pp. 225–227.

Pranala luar 
 Banyan: Interview with Rosa Guy , 2nd International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers, Trinidad & Tobago, April 27, 1990.
 African American Literary Bookclub: Rosa Guy

1922 births
2012 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American women novelists
African-American women writers
African-American novelists
Trinidad and Tobago women novelists
20th-century women writers
African-American dramatists and playwrights
American women short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Penulis Afrika-Amerika abad ke-20
Novelis Amerika Serikat abad ke-20
Tokoh Afrika-Amerika abad ke-21
Penulis perempuan Amerika Serikat abad ke-20
Novelis perempuan Amerika Serikat
Novelis Afrika-Amerika