While doing research for a class project for a senior English/Africana Studies seminar at Texas A & M University, I had the incredible opportunity of interviewing author, poet, and painter, Lucinda Roy. With numerous volumes of poetry and two novels, Hotel Alleluia and Lady Moses published, Lucinda Roy explored with me some prevalent themes in her works. Focusing primarily on her first novel, Lady Moses, Roy lends great insight into her creative fiction and poetry. The results of our discussion reveal not only the vastly complex issues in contemporary Black British literature, but draw attention to the novel's common thread of humanity in all peoples. I was particularly struck not only by her brilliant wit and overwhelming intellect, but her genuinely magnanimous character and remarkably humble disposition.

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Interviews

With Laura Dunn April 21, 2005	Searching for Belonging: Contemporary Expressions of Home, Hybridity, and Identity in Lucinda Roy's Lady Moses
With Rebecca Lomax	City Beat: volume 5, issue 12; Feb. 11-Feb. 17, 1999 "Odd Woman Out"
With Public Radio Exchange	"Quilting the Black-eyed Pea " Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middle Passage."
Interview – Nashville Public Radio	The Hotel Alleluia by Lucinda Roy

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Works

	Text (Book, Microform, Electronic, etc.) Roy, Lucinda. Lady Moses : a novel / Lucinda Roy. 1st ed. New York : HarperFlamingo, c1998. 382 p. ; 25 cm. 006018244X
	Text (Book, Microform, Electronic, etc.) Roy, Lucinda. The Hotel Alleluia : a novel / Lucinda Roy. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins, c2000. 355 p. ; 25 cm. 0060193956 (alk. paper)
	Text (Book, Microform, Electronic, etc.) Roy, Lucinda. The humming birds / Lucinda Roy. 1st American ed. Portland , Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 1995. 88 p. ; 23 cm. 0933377398 (cloth : alk. paper)
	Wailing the Dead to Sleep by Lucinda Roy , Nikki Giovanni Publisher: Bogle L'Ouverture Press (1988) ISBN: 0904521451
	Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia Sarah Kennedy  (Editor), R. T. Smith  (Editor), Contribution by  Talvikki Ansel ISBN: 0813922232 Format: Paperback, 178pp Pub. Date: January 2003 Publisher: University of Virginia Press

 

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FAQs and Reviews

FAQs

Lucinda Roy discusses some of her works. The discussions are archived as formatted interviews.

Hotel Alleluia - http://www.english.vt.edu/~roy/NewWWW/HAFAQs.html

Lady Moses - http://www.english.vt.edu/~roy/NewWWW/LMFAQs.html

Readers Pages - http://www.english.vt.edu/~roy/NewWWW/RoyReaders.html

Reviews

Following are online reviews of some of the works of Lucinda Roy

• Reviews of Lady Moses – from Barnes and Noble
• Review by of Lady Moses in New York Times - March 15, 1998 "Continental Divide. " By ABBY FRUCHT http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/15/reviews/980315.15fruchtt.html
• Denver Post Review of Lady Moses - http://63.147.65.175/books/book176.htm
• Christian Science Monitor Review of Lady Moses – http://csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1998/03/10/feat/books.2.html "Migration That Leads to Self-Discovery" by Merle Rubin
• Hotel Alleluia reviews from Barnes and Noble
• The Hotel Alleluia. - Review - book review Black Issues Book Review ,   July, 2000  by Shaun Neblett http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_4_2/ai_65805454
• The Grits.Com review of Hotel Alleluia http://www.thegritsbookclub.com/Reviews/HotelAlleluia.html

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Bibliography and Links

A comprehensive bibliography on the works of Lucinda Roy and some Web links will be added here soon

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