Bird at My Window

Guy’s first novel, Bird at My Window (1966), is set in Harlem and examines the relationship between black mothers and their children, as well as the social forces that foster the demoralization of black men. Children of Longing (1970), which Guy edited, contains accounts of black teens’ and…

…a member was Guy’s novel Bird at My Window (1966), a cultural critique of growing up and surviving in 1950s Harlem while facing poverty and racism. Lonne Elder III, a playwright and screenwriter who had joined the guild soon after its founding, wrote his account of a family making their…