List of African American writers
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This is a list of African American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African American literature.
Note: Consult Who is African American? to gain a better sense as to who can be listed as an African American writer.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also
[edit] A
- Maya Angelou (born 1928), author and poet
- Tina McElroy Ansa
- M.K. Asante, Jr., author, poet, screenwriter, professor
- Mechelle Avey
[edit] B
- Michael Baisden
- James Baldwin (1924-1987),
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Leslie Esdaile Banks
- Amiri Baraka
- Steven Barnes
- Paul Beatty
- Derrick Bell
- Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- Bertice Berry
- Eleanor Taylor Bland
- Kole Black
- Darnishia Bolden
- Marita Bonner
- Arna Bontemps
- David Bradley (novelist)
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Hallie Quinn Brown
- Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia
- William Wells Brown
- Ed Bullins
- Anita Richmond Bunkley
- Olivia Ward Bush
- Octavia Butler
[edit] C
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Stokely Carmichael
- Stephen L. Carter
- Cyrus Cassells
- Christopher Chambers
- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), novelist and short-story writer[1]
- Rasheed Clark, novelist
- Troy CLE
- Pearl Cleage
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Michelle Cliff
- Lucille Clifton
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson
- Wanda Coleman
- Marvel Cooke
- Anna J. Cooper
- J. California Cooper
- Jayne Cortez
- Bill Cosby
- Donald Crews, (born 1938), children's book author.
- Stanley Crouch
- Countee Cullen
- Christopher Paul Curtis
[edit] D
- Jeffrey Daniels
- Edwidge Danticat
- Angela Davis
- Frank Marshall Davis
- Lucy Delaney
- Samuel R. Delany (born 1942), novelist[2]
- Sarah L. Delany
- William Demby (born 1922),[3] author of Beetlecreek (1950), Anisfield-Wolf's 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award[4]
- Anderson Denner
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Anita Doreen Diggs
- Lonnie Dixon
- Frederick Douglass
- Rita Dove
- Evelyn Dove-Coleman Prayers to Survive, Mt. Olive College Press
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), poet[5]
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- David Anthony Durham
- Michael Eric Dyson
[edit] E
[edit] F
[edit] G
- Ernest Gaines (born 1933), fiction writer[6]
- Marcus Garvey
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Addison Gayle
- Nikki Giovanni
- Roy Glenn (fiction writer of Is It A Crime, Payback and others)
- Donald Goines
- Lawrence Otis Graham
- Dick Gregory
- Sutton E. Griggs
- Terris McMahan Grimes
- Angelina Weld Grimke
- Charlotte Forten Grimké
- Sojourner Marable Grimmett
- Dick GlenRock
- Paige Glowacki
- Patrick Gonzales
[edit] H
- Alex Haley
- Virginia Hamilton
- Henry Hampton
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Vincent Harding
- Frances Harper
- E. Lynn Harris
- Robert Hayden
- Chester Himes
- Hugh Holton
- bell hooks (sic)
- Pauline Hopkins
- George Moses Horton
- Detrick Hughes
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967), Poet
- Zora Neale Hurston
- R Caresse Hightower
[edit] J
- Brenda Jackson
- Jesse C. Jackson (born 1908), young-adult novelist
- Harriet Jacobs
- T.D. Jakes
- Beverly Jenkins
- C.L. Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- Charles R. Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- Mat Johnson
- Edward P. Jones
- Tayari Jones
- June Jordan
[edit] K
- Ron Karenga
- Elizabeth Keckley
- Randall Kenan
- John Oliver Killens
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Etheridge Knight
- Yusef Komunyakaa
[edit] L
- Nella Larsen (1891-1964), novelist
- Victor LaValle
- Alain Locke
- Audre Lorde (1934-1992), author, poet, activist
- Glenville Lovell
[edit] M
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Manning Marable
- Paule Marshall
- Hans Massaquoi
- Brandon Massey
- Nathan McCall
- Claude McKay
- Terry McMillan
- Wendy Raven McNair [6], author, artist
- James Alan McPherson
- Oscar Micheaux
- Penny Mickelbury
- E. Ethelbert Miller
Carol Denise Mitchell (born 1955), author, writer, poet
- Anne Moody
- Mary Monroe
- Kevin D. Morris (born 1958), author, teacher, entrepreneur
- Mary B. Morrison
- Toni Morrison (born 1931), author, Nobel laureate 1993
- Walter Mosley
- Thylias Moss
- Willard Motley
- Jess Mowry
- Albert Murray
- Walter Dean Myers
[edit] N
- Gloria Naylor
- Larry Neal
- Barbara Neely
- Tariq Nasheed
- Derek Duke Noble fitness author, tv host, lifestyle coach, speaker
[edit] O
[edit] P
- ZZ Packer
- Kayla Perrin
- Eric Pete
- Ann Petry
- Kevin Pickett
- Gabrielle Pina
- Brian Pinckney
- Jerry Pinckney
- Ann Plato
- Alvin F. Poussaint
- William Powell Jr.
[edit] Q
[edit] R
- Dudley Randall
- Andy Razaf
- J. Saunders Redding
- Ishmael Reed (born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist
- Octavia V. Rogers Albert
- Al Roker
- Fran Ross
- France Ray
[edit] S
- Sonia Sanchez
- Sapphire
- Charles R. Saunders
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
- George Schuyler
- Gil Scott-Heron
- Victor Séjour
- Ntozake Shange
- Robert Shumake
- Iceberg Slim
- Amanda Smith
- Charles Smith
- Thomas Sowell
- Sister Souljah
- Anne Spencer
- Maria W. Stewart
- Sekou Sundiata
- Brianna Stewart
[edit] T
- Susie Taylor
- Lorenzo Thomas
- Trisha R. Thomas, author of Nappily Ever After
- Wallace Thurman
- Melvin B. Tolson
- Jean Toomer
- Touré
- Quincy Troupe
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Omar Tyree
- Nikki Turner
[edit] V
- Ivan Van Sertima (born in Kitty Village, Guyana, on 26 January, 1935), professor, author, historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University, noted proponent of theories of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas
- Henry Van Dyke
[edit] W
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Margaret Walker
- Mike Warren
- Booker T. Washington
- Carl Weber
- Valerie Wilson Wesley
- Cornel West
- Dorothy West
- Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), first published African American poet
- Colson Whitehead, novelist (The Intuitionist) and journalist
- Steven Whitehurst (1967- ), Award winning author
- Anthony Whyte
- John Wideman
- Chancellor Williams
- John Alfred Williams
- Sherley Anne Williams
- Walter E. Williams
- August Wilson
- Harriet E. Wilson, author of "Our Nig" and first African American novelist
- Kelly Wright, author of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation
- Richard Wright
[edit] X
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
[edit] See also
- List of African American nonfiction writers
- list of writers
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
[edit] Notes
- ^ [1] "As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt..."
- ^ [2] "Although he has written much outside the genre, Samuel R. Delany is, along with Octavia Butler, one of two African Americans who, as writers, rank near the..."
- ^ [3] "African-American novelist William Demby was born [...]"
- ^ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Winners/Biography.aspx?id=830
- ^ [4] "Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet."
- ^ [5] "He is an African-American writer and educator."

