Farah Jasmine Griffin is a professor of English and comparative literature and African American Studies at Columbia University, where she has served as director of the Institute for Research in African American studies.
Books in order of publication:
“Who Set You Flowin’?”: The African-American Migration Narrative (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, ed. (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
If You Can’t Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday (Free Press, 2001)
Uptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies, ed. with Robert G. O’Meally and Brent Hayes Edwards (Columbia University Press, 2004)
Inclusive Scholarship: Developing Black Studies in the United States: A 25th Anniversary Retrospective of Ford Foundation Grant Making, 1982-2007 (Ford Foundation, 2007)
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever with Salim Washington (St. Martin’s, 2008)
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II (Basic Books, 2013)
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (W. W. Norton & Company, 2021)
In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (W.W. Norton & Company, 2023)
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