Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jewell is the award-winning author of Voodoo Dreams, Magic City, Douglass’ Women, Season, Moon, and Hurricane. She is also the Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair and Founding Artistic Director of Arizona State University’s Piper Center for Creative Writing, and has written many award-winning books for children.
Historical Fiction
Douglass’ Women
The critically acclaimed author of Voodoo Dreams delivers an inspired work of historical fiction about the warring passions that drove the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass and two women — one black, one white — who loved him.
Magic City
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man flees, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins.
Nonfiction
Porch Stories
Porch Stories is Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes’s tribute to her beloved grandmother, a real account of the love she received and the lessons she learned.
Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
For the legions of people who have a novel stuck in their word processors, help is finally on the way! Free Within Ourselves is an excellent guide to all the elements necessary to crafting fiction: character development, point of view, plot, atmosphere, dialogue, diction, sentence variety, and revision.
The African American Guide to Writing & Publishing Nonfiction
n college and graduate school, Jewell Parker Rhodes never encountered a single reading assignment or exercise that featured a person of color. Now she has made it her mission to rectify the situation, gathering advice and inspiring tips tailored for African Americans seeking to express their life experiences.
The Marie Laveau Mystery Trilogy
This is the story of Marie Levant, the great-great granddaughter of Marie Laveau, a New Orleans doctor tasked with confronting zombies, vampires, and the forces of nature. Jewell Parker Rhodes delivers a thrilling mystery series rich with Louisiana history and laced with sexual energy.
Season
Season is a fresh and original work of fiction that is a magical womanist tale of mystery and power.
Moon
A jazzman, a wharf worker, a prostitute, all murdered. Wrists punctured, their bodies impossibly drained of blood. What connects them? Why are they rising as ghosts?
Hurricane
In the stunning conclusion to award-winning author Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes’s mystery trilogy begun in Season and Moon, Dr. Marie Lavant, descendent of Voodoo queen Marie Laveau, must confront a murderous evil in New Orleans.
Literary Fiction
Bayou Teché
Jewell Parker Rhodes tells a brief but unforgettable story of heritage, family, and resistance in Bayou Teché.
Long Distances: A Short Story
Jewell Parker Rhodes develops an expansive narrative within the length of a short story of a man getting closer to a new home, but farther from his true self.