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Mary Helen Washington is an African American literary scholar, professor, and author. She is currently a professor of African American literature at the University of Maryland-College Park.

Biography
Mary Helen Washington's work has examined the cultural and literary impact of African Americans. In her 1987 published anthology, Invented Lives: Narratives of Black Women, 1860-1960, she explores the lives and literary work of ten black women writers. In The New Yorker, staff writer Hilton Als referred to this work as "an invaluable study". Washington's most recent book, The Other Blacklist:The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s, she recounts the lives of African American writers and artists who were influenced by the Communist-inspired Left.