her plays were still produced by Karamu Theatre in Cleveland and other major Black companies. Her work was also seen in many colleges and both Track Thirteen (1940) and Tom-Tom were aired on the radio. Due to the difficulty in getting musicals or plays produced and published, Graham turned to literature. She wrote in a variety of genres, specializing from the 1950s in biographies of leading African-American and world figures for young readers. She wanted to increase the number of books that dealt with notable African Americans in elementary school libraries. Owing to her personal knowledge of her subjects, her books on Paul Robeson and Kwame Nkrumah are considered especially interesting. Other subjects included Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, and Booker T. Washington; as well as Gamal Abdul Nasser, and Julius Nyerere. One of her last novels, Zulu Heart (1974), included sympathetic portrayals of whites in South Africa despite racial conflicts. Selections from her correspondence with her husband (both before and after their relationship began) appear in the three volume 1976 collection edited by Herbert Aptheker (ed.), Correspondence of W.E.B. Du Bois. Shirley Graham Du Bois is the subject of Race Woman: The Lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois. Biographical Works Biographies for young readers: with George D. Lipscomb, Dr. George Washington Carver, Scientist, New York: Julian Messner, 1944, (Library binding has ) Paul Robeson, Citizen of the World, Connecticut, 1946: Greenwood Press, reprint 1972 Your Most Humble Servant: Benjamin Banneker, New York: Julian Messner, 1949; winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1950 The Story of Phillis Wheatley: Poetess of the Revolution, New York: Julian Messner, 1949 The Story of Pocahontas, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1953 Jean Baptiste Pointe duSable: Founder of Chicago (1953) Booker T. Washington: Educator of Head, Hand and Heart, New York: Julian Messner, 1955 His Day Is Marching On: A Memoir of W.E.B. Du Bois, New York: Lippincott, 1971 Julius K. Nyerere, Teacher of Africa, New York: Julian Messner, 1975 Du Bois: A Pictorial Biography, Johnsons, 1978 Novels: There Once Was a Slave (1947), the Messner Prize-winning historical novel on the life of Frederick Douglass; and Zulu Heart, New York: Third Press, 1974 References Sources Azikiwe, Abayomi. “Pan-Africanism, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Nkrumah's Ghana: Pambazuka News.” Pan-Africanism, Shirley Graham Du Bois and Nkrumah's Ghana | Pambazuka News, 16 Mar. 2017, www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/pan-africanism-shirley-graham-du-bois-and-nkrumah%E2%80%99s-Ghana. D'Amato, Lilyanna. “The Legacy of Black Classical Music: Shirley Graham Du Bois.” Cleveland