found: Author's Bittersweet, 1973.
found: Her House of light, c2001:CIP t.p. (Joyce Carol Thomas) CIP data sheet (b. May 25, 1938)
found: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed April 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Thomas, Joyce Carol; novelist, poet, dramatist, educator; born 1938 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, United States; bachelor's degree in Spanish from San Jose State University; master's degree in education from Stanford University (1967); received Before Columbus American Book Award for her first novel, Marked by Fire (1982); Djerassi Fellowship for Creative Writing at Stanford University; taught at California State University, Purdue University, and University of Tennessee at Knoxville; was editor of the West Coast black feminist magazine Ambrosia)
found: SFGate, via WWW, viewed Aug. 22, 2016(in obituary dated Aug 21, 2016: Joyce Carol Thomas, a prolific and prize-winning children's author whose books centered on African American life and tackled racial inequality, has died; she was 78; Ms. Thomas, who lived in Berkeley, died Aug. 13)