Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Dr. Elizabeth McHenry Duke University Press, 2002, 352 pp., $54.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2980-8; $18.95 paper, ISBN 0-- 8223-2996-6 When writers such as Terry McMillan, Walter Mosley and E. Lynn Harris burst into the ranks of best-selling American authors, the media hailed their success as a triumph for the African