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| This is a list of ] ]s and ]s, all of whom are considered part of ]. | |||
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| This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of ], and who already have Misplaced Pages articles. The list also includes non-American authors resident in the US and American writers of African descent. | |||
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| ==A== | ==A== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] (born 1957), historian, columnist, novelist, poet, artist and editor | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1954), political activist and journalist | |||
| * ] (born 1952), author and poet | |||
| * ] (born 1993), author and creative writing coach | |||
| * ], aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA for poetry, 1999 | |||
| * ] (born 1943), author and artist | |||
| * ] (born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright | |||
| * ] (born 1968), writer of poetry and children's fiction | |||
| * ] (born 1953), author and artist | |||
| * ] (1898–1945) | |||
| * ] (born 1950), novelist, cultural critic and screenwriter | |||
| * ] (1859–1941), author and educator | |||
| * ] (born 1942), activist, writer and academic | |||
| * ] (1886–1939), playwright | |||
| * ] (1928–2014), author and poet | |||
| * ] (born 1949), novelist, filmmaker, teacher and journalist | |||
| * ] (1939–2011), actor, playwright and stage director | |||
| * ] (1928–2014), author, veteran and educator | |||
| * ] (born 1982), author, poet, screenwriter, professor | |||
| * ] (born 1962), poet, playwright, professor | |||
| * ] (1926–2024), musician, playwright and poet | |||
| * ] (1911–1986), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright and screenwriter | |||
| ==B== | ==B== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] (born 1972), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist | ||
| * ] | * ] (1939–1995) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1959–2011) | ||
| * ] (1934–2014) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born {{circa|1988}}), poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1952) | ||
| * ] (1961–2008) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1857–1932) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1962) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1918–1992) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1933) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1930–2011) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (living) | ||
| * ] (1902–1981) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1936–2004) | ||
| * ] (1928–2018) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1960) | ||
| * ] (living), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1815–1854) | ||
| * ] (1944–2010), writer of crime fiction | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1899–1971) | ||
| * ] (1902–1973) | |||
| * ] (1919–1993) | |||
| * ] (living), writer on civil rights | |||
| * ] (born 1950) | |||
| * ] (1878–1962), poet and literary critic | |||
| * ] (1917–2000) | |||
| * ] (1937–2002) | |||
| * ] (1849–1949) | |||
| * ] (born 1995) | |||
| * ] (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the ] | |||
| * ] (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, '']'' (1853) | |||
| * ] (1920-1990) | |||
| * ] (1923–2022) | |||
| * ] (born 1972), author of romance and mainstream fiction novels | |||
| * ] (1935–2021) | |||
| * ] (1869–1944) | |||
| * ] (1947–2006) | |||
| * ] (1945–2013) | |||
| ==C== | ==C== | ||
| * ] (1943–2010) | |||
| * ] | * ] (1950–2006) | ||
| * ] (1941–1998) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1951) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1830–1881) | ||
| * ] (born 1954) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1957) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (living) | ||
| * ] (1957–2016), actress, author, drag performer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1858–1932), novelist and short-story writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1916–1994), playwright and novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1980) | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1947) | ||
| * ] (1915–1998) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1950), writer, director, actor, publisher | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (living) | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1948) | ||
| * ] (1935–1998) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1946–2016) | |||
| * ] (1936–2010) | |||
| * ] (born 1966) | |||
| * ] (born 1975) | |||
| * ] (1946–2013) | |||
| * ] (1903–2000) | |||
| * ] (1858–1964) | |||
| * ] (1931–2014), playwright | |||
| * ] (1869–1917) | |||
| * ] (1934–2012) | |||
| * ] (born 1937) | |||
| * ] (1861–1949) | |||
| * ] (born 1938), children's book author | |||
| * ] (1945–2020) | |||
| * ] (1916–2005) | |||
| * ] (1903–1946) | |||
| * ] (1906–1976) | |||
| * ] (born 1953) | |||
| ==D== | ==D== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] | |||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living), poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1967) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1956) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1944) political activist, writer, and professor.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Angela Y. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250601845 |title=Angela Davis : an autobiography |date=2022 |isbn=978-0-241-55125-7 |location= |oclc=1250601845}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Directory |url=https://humanities.ucsc.edu/academics/faculty/index.php?uid=aydavis |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=humanities.ucsc.edu}}</ref> | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1905–1987) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1972), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1898–2001) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ], novelist, author, editor, professor, and literary critic | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1961–2021) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1966) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1978) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1932–2011) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1818–1895) | |||
| * ] (born 1952), poet and educator. Youngest person and first Black American to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rita Dove - Ohio History Central |url=https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Rita_Dove |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=ohiohistorycentral.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Rita Dove |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/n80111701/rita-dove/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (born 1948) | |||
| * ] (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP<ref>{{Cite web |title=W.E.B. Du Bois {{!}} NAACP |url=https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/web-du-bois |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=naacp.org |language=en}}</ref> His most notable work is '']''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Du Bois |first=W. E. B. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/915084092 |title=The souls of Black folk |date=2014 |isbn=978-1-5052-2337-8 |location= |oclc=915084092}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bio + Contact |url=https://www.tananarivedue.com/bio-contact |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Tananarive Due |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (1934–1968) | |||
| * ] (1872–1906), poet | |||
| * ] (1875–1935) | |||
| * ] (born 1969) | |||
| * ],<!-- Article is Draft:Richard Durham – please review--> (1917–1984), wrote radio series '']'' | |||
| * ] (born 1958) | |||
| ==E== | ==E== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] (born 1954) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1825–1907), educator, activist and author | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1929–2008) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1913–1994), novelist, best known as author of '']'' | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1745}}–1797) | |||
| * ] (1938–2003), playwright | |||
| * ] (1919–2017), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1956) | |||
| * ] (born 1986), author, educator, poet, and sociologist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eve L. Ewing |url=https://eveewing.com/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Eve L. Ewing |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2023-03-19 |title=Eve L. Ewing |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eve-l-ewing |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eve L. Ewing {{!}} The University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences |url=https://socialsciences.uchicago.edu/directory/eve-l-ewing |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=socialsciences.uchicago.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Eve L. Ewing - Breaking Down Structural Racism with "Ghosts in the Schoolyard" {{!}} The Daily Show |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47mfgPFhkUA |access-date=2023-03-20 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ==F== | ==F== | ||
| * ] (1928–1979) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1932–2018) | ||
| * ], 19th-century novelist | |||
| * ] (1943–2003), science-fiction author | |||
| * ] (1899–1983) | |||
| * ] (1882–1961), editor, poet, essayist and novelist | |||
| * ] (1849–1883), preacher and author | |||
| * ] (living), author, screenwriter and producer | |||
| * ] (born 1959) | |||
| * ] (1897–1934), novelist, short story writer and dramatist | |||
| * ] (born 1955), writer of young adult literature | |||
| * ] (living), journalist and writer of erotic fiction and horror fiction | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1862}}–1905), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1987), author and screen writer | |||
| * ] (1937–1997), novelist | |||
| * ] (living), poet, essayist and educator | |||
| * ] (born 1937), playwright | |||
| * ] (1915–2009), historian, sociologist, memoirist | |||
| * ] (1923–1981) | |||
| * ] (living), novelist, playwright and screenwriter | |||
| ==G== | ==G== | ||
| * ] (1933–2019), fiction writer | |||
| * ] (1872–1938), educator and playwright | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1887–1940) | ||
| * ] (born 1984), motivational, inspirational, self-help writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1950) | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1974) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1943–2024) | ||
| * ] (1914–1971), fiction writer, ''Is It A Crime'', ''Payback'' | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1936–1974) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1950) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1897}}–1980), poet, fiction writer | |||
| * ] (1891–1972), journalist | |||
| * ] (1925–1995), playwright | |||
| * ] (born 1998), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1962) | |||
| * ] (born {{circa|1786}}) | |||
| * ] (1892–1960), travel writer | |||
| * ] (1929–2021), children's book author | |||
| * ] (1930–2014), novelist, poet, best known as author of '']'' | |||
| * ] (born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic | |||
| * ], author of '']'' book series | |||
| * ] (1932–2017) | |||
| * ] (1872–1933) | |||
| * ] (born 1950), children's book author and poet<ref> at Scholastic.</ref> | |||
| * ] (1880–1958) | |||
| * ] (1837–1914) | |||
| * ] (1922–2012) | |||
| * ] (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of ''Drylongso'' | |||
| * ] (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author of ''].'' | |||
| ==H== | ==H== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] (1921–1992), author of '']'' | |||
| * ] (1934–2002), author of children's books | |||
| * ] (1940–1998) | |||
| * ] (1930–1965), playwright | |||
| * ] (born 1942), author of children's books | |||
| * ] (1931–2014), historian and social activist | |||
| * ] (born 1992), playwright | |||
| * ] (born 1933) | |||
| * ] (1825–1911), poet and abolitionist | |||
| * ] (1955–2009) | |||
| * ] (1891–?) | |||
| * ] (born 1961) writer and academic, known for her seminal work ''Scenes of Subjection''<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rodriques |first=Elias |date=2022-11-03 |title=How Saidiya Hartman Changed the Study of Black Life |language=en-US |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/saidiya-hartman-interview/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hartman |first=Saidiya V. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1294288038 |title=Scenes of subjection : terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America |date=2022 |others=Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Marisa J. Fuentes, Sarah Haley, Cameron Rowland, Torkwase Dyson |isbn=978-1-324-02158-2 |edition= |location=New York, NY |oclc=1294288038}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (1913–1980), poet, essayist, educator | |||
| * ] (1957–1995), poet and activist | |||
| * ] (born 1942) | |||
| * ] (1950–2001), poet | |||
| * ] (1909–1984), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1989) | |||
| * ] (born 1970) | |||
| * ] (born 1949) | |||
| * ] (1952—2021), feminist, and social activist | |||
| * ] (1859–1930), novelist, journalist, playwright, historian and editor | |||
| * ] (born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based in California | |||
| * ] (1798–after 1867) | |||
| * ], real-estate broker, writer, and media personality | |||
| * ], fiction writer<ref>{{Cite web|title = Tracie Howard {{!}} Penguin Random House|url = http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/70140/tracie-howard|website = PenguinRandomhouse.com|access-date = 2016-01-23}}</ref> | |||
| * ] (born 1966) | |||
| * ] (1901–1967), poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist | |||
| * ] (1891–1960), folklorist, anthropologist, author of novels short stories, plays and essays | |||
| ==I== | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1993) | ||
| * ] (born 1941), poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (sic) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==I== | |||
| ==J== | ==J== | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1953) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1908–1983), young-adult novelist | ||
| * ] (born 1946), poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1813 or 1815–1897), author of '']'' (1861) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1957) | ||
| * ] (born 1974), science fiction and speculative fiction writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1773–after 1817) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1972), writer of speculative fiction. First person to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://nkjemisin.com/about/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Epiphany 2.0 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schaub |first=Michael |date=2018-08-21 |title=N.K. Jemisin makes history at the Hugo Awards with third win in a row for best novel |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/la-et-jc-nk-jemisin-hugo-awards-20180821-story.html |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1951) | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] (1954–1995), poet, writer and Black lesbian activist | |||
| * ] (born 1982) | |||
| * ] (born 1961) | |||
| * ] (born 1948) | |||
| * ] (1880–1966), poet | |||
| * ] (1906–1995), poet | |||
| * ] (1871–1938), writer and civil rights activist | |||
| * ] (born 1970) | |||
| * ] (born 1977) | |||
| * ] (born 1950), novelist and short-story writer | |||
| * ] (born 1949), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1970), author and academic | |||
| * ] (1936–2002), poet, essayist and activist | |||
| ==K== | ==K== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1941) | ||
| * ] (1925–1986), poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1818–1907) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1937–2017), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1863–1938), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1963–2020) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1931), playwright | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1960), memoirist, screenwriter | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1916–1987), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1949) | |||
| {{col-4}} | |||
| * ] (born 1957) | |||
| * ] (1929–1968) | |||
| * ] (born 1937) | |||
| * ] (1931–1991), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1941) | |||
| ==L== | ==L== | ||
| * ] (1923–2008), poet, editor and teacher | |||
| * ] | * ] (1891–1964), novelist | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1972) | ||
| * ], historian and preservationist, writer, academic | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1953), novelist and memoirist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1939–2018) | |||
| * ] (born 1936) | |||
| * ] (born 1961) author, multimedia artist | |||
| * ] (1885–1954) writer | |||
| * ] (born 1974), novelist | |||
| * ] (1934–1992), author, poet, activist | |||
| * ], abolitionist educator and writer | |||
| * ] (born 1955), novelist and playwright | |||
| ==M== | ==M== | ||
| ]]] | |||
| * ] (born 1965), poet, theologian, essayist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1947), poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1923–2020), poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1942) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1936), poet, painter and novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1950–2011) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1755–1791) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1929–2019) | ||
| * ] (1889–1977), journalist and writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1926–2013) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1973) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1861–1907), essayist, newspaperwoman, activist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1928–1984) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1957) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1955) | ||
| * ] (born 1965), novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1889–1948) | ||
| * ] (1944–2017) | |||
| * ] (born 1956) | |||
| * ] (born 1964), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1951), novelist | |||
| * ] (1943–2016) | |||
| * ] (1923–2023), novelist, essayist, journalist and activist | |||
| * ] (1884–1951) | |||
| * ] (born 1950), poet | |||
| * ] (1899–1995), poet and playwright | |||
| * ] (1920–2012), poet, essayist and educator | |||
| * ] (living), novelist | |||
| * ] (1940–2015) | |||
| * ] (born 1971), poet | |||
| * ] (1931–2019), author, ] 1993 | |||
| * ] (c.1909–1994), first black American appointed to a president's administration (1955–60) | |||
| * ] (born 1952), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1954) | |||
| * ] (1909–1965) | |||
| * ] (born 1960) | |||
| * ] (1916–2013) | |||
| * ] (1910–1985) | |||
| * ] (1937–2014), writer of children's books | |||
| ==N== | ==N== | ||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] | * ] (1950–2016) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1937–1981) | ||
| * ] (1941–2020), novelist, short-story writer and activist | |||
| * ] (1942–1989) | |||
| * ] (1906–1987) | |||
| ==O== | ==O== | ||
| * ] (born 1952) poet and professor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mwatabu S. Okantah, The Muntu Kuntu Energy Poet |url=https://www.mkepoet1.com/ |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=Mysite 3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mwatabu Okantah {{!}} Kent State University |url=https://www.kent.edu/afs/mwatabu-okantah |access-date=2023-03-20 |website=www.kent.edu |language=en}}</ref> | |||
| ] | |||
| * ] (1921–2019), poet and novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1974), writer of science fiction and fantasy | |||
| * ] (1933–2003), author of mystery and suspense | |||
| * ] (born 1988) | |||
| * ] (living), journalist and author | |||
| * ] (born 1973) | |||
| * ] (born 1987), science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer | |||
| * ] (born 1944) | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] (born 1957), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1989), political activist | |||
| ==P== | ==P== | ||
| * ] | * ] (born 1973) | ||
| * ] (1912–2006), photographer, composer, author, poet, and film directo | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1963), playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1969), actor, filmmaker and playwright | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living), novelist and short-story writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1908–1997), writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1959) | ||
| * ] (1950–2014), poet and novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1964), author, columnist, political thought leader | |||
| * ] (1881–1954), orator, educator, journalist, and essayist. | |||
| * ] (born {{circa|1824}}), educator and author | |||
| * ] (born 1940), educator and author | |||
| * ] (1932–2009) | |||
| * ] (born 1934) | |||
| * ] (1931–2014), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at ] | |||
| * ] (born 1942), playwright and poet | |||
| ==Q== | |||
| ==R== | ==R== | ||
| * ] (1936–2014), playwright | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1959), author and songwriter | ||
| * ] (1914–2000), poet and publisher | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1852–1916), poet and teacher | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1944–2013), writer of romance fiction | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1895–1973), poet, composer and lyricist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1987), novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1983), YA/Middle-Grade novelist/poet | |||
| * ] (1889–1977), playwright | |||
| * ] (1861–1943), essayist and short-story writer | |||
| * ] (born 1981), playwright | |||
| * ] (1948–2002), writer, producer and director | |||
| * ] (1940–2010), poet | |||
| * ] (1853–{{circa|1890}}) | |||
| * ] (born 1954) | |||
| * ] (1935–1985) | |||
| * ], novelist | |||
| * ] (1842–1924), journalist | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1812}}–?), author of the first known cookbook by a Black woman in the United States | |||
| * ] (born 1959), author of the '']'' series of children's novels | |||
| * ], poet, essayist, playwright, novelist | |||
| * ] (born 1960), actor, author, drag performer, TV show host | |||
| ==S== | ==S== | ||
| * ] (born 1947), poet, author, filmmaker, teacher, activist | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1934), poet | ||
| * ] (born 1934) novelist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1950) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1946–2020), author and journalist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1874–1938), historian, writer, and activist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1895–1977), author, journalist and social commentator | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1949–2011), poet and musician | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1931–2019), author, collector | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (living), playwright and librettist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1817–1874) | ||
| * ] (living), author | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (1971–1996) | ||
| * ] (1948–2018), playwright and poet | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1955) | ||
| * ] (born 1964) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1918–1992) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1837–1915) | |||
| * ] (living), poet | |||
| * ] (1879–1960), poet | |||
| * ] (1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor | |||
| * ] (born 1930), economist, social theorist, political philosopher | |||
| * ] (born 1935) | |||
| * ] (1882–1975), poet | |||
| * ] (born 1979), producer, playwright, screenwriter and reporter | |||
| * ] (1843–1924) | |||
| * ] (1803–1879), journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, women's rights activist | |||
| * ] (born 1950), professor and Pulitzer prize winner | |||
| * ] (born 1985) | |||
| ==T== | ==T== | ||
| * ] (1906–2008) | |||
| * ] (born 1943) | |||
| * ] (1848–1912) | |||
| * ] (1863–1954) | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1730}}–1821) | |||
| * ] (born 1939) | |||
| * ] (born 1988) | |||
| * ] (born 1948) | |||
| * ] (1938–2016), author, poet, playwright, and motivational speaker | |||
| * ] (1944–2005) | |||
| * ] (1928–2011) | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] (born 1963) | |||
| * ] (1905–1986) | |||
| * ] (1899–1981) | |||
| * ] (1902–1934) | |||
| * ] (1878–?) | |||
| * ] (born 1959) | |||
| * ] (1898–1966) | |||
| * ] (1894–1967) | |||
| * ] (born 1971) | |||
| * ] (born 1938), poet, essayist, leading voice of the ] | |||
| * ] (born 1939) | |||
| * ] (c.1797–1883) | |||
| * ] (born 1969) | |||
| * ] (born 1958) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| ==U== | |||
| ==V== | ==V== | ||
| * ] (1928–2011), novelist, editor, teacher and musician | |||
| * ] (1935–2009), professor, author, historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] ({{circa|1813}}–1916), author of ''Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)'' | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1973), novelist | |||
| ==W== | ==W== | ||
| * ] (born 1982) | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1944) | ||
| * ] (born 1961), founding member of Affrilachian poets | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1915–1998), novelist, poet and writer | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1972–1997) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1952) | ||
| * ] (1898–1966) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ], novelist, commentator, journalist, and columnist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1922) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (born 1946) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1930–2021) | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1977) | ||
| * ] | * ] (1856–1915) | ||
| * ] (1828–c.1894), novelist, poet, essayist | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] (1862–1931) | |||
| * ] (born 1945), playwright, screenwriter | |||
| * ] (born 1947) | |||
| * ] (born 1953) | |||
| * ] (1907–1998), novelist | |||
| * ] (1753–1784), first published African-American poet | |||
| * ] (1893–1955) | |||
| * ] (born 1969), novelist ('']'', '']'') and journalist | |||
| * ] (born 1967), award-winning author | |||
| * ] (1851–1901), poet, minister and orator | |||
| * ], writer of urban and hip-hop literature | |||
| * ] (born 1941) | |||
| * ] (born 1961) | |||
| * ] (living) | |||
| * ] (born 1970), children's novelist | |||
| * ] (1893–1992), historian and sociologist | |||
| * ] (1925–2015), author, journalist and academic | |||
| * ] (born 1946), playwright | |||
| * ] (1944–1999) | |||
| * ] (1936–2020) | |||
| * ] (1945–2005) | |||
| * ] (1825–1900), author of ''Our Nig'' and the first African-American novelist | |||
| * ] (d. 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator | |||
| * ] (born 1935), author of ''When Work Disappears'', ''The Truly Disadvantaged'', and ''The Declining Significance of Race'' | |||
| * ] (born 1954) | |||
| * ] (1875–1950) | |||
| * ] (born 1963), award-winning author of books for children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming" | |||
| * ] (born 1964) | |||
| * ] (born 1935), poet | |||
| * ], author of ''Outed Obsession'' and ''Fatal Fixation'' | |||
| * ] (1908–1960), writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction | |||
| * ], novelist | |||
| * ], comic book writer and novelist | |||
| ==X== | ==X== | ||
| * ] (1925–1965) | |||
| * ] | * ] (born 1944) | ||
| ==Y== | ==Y== | ||
| * ] (born 1938) | |||
| *] | |||
| * ] (1916–1991), historical novelist | |||
| * ] (1939–2021), poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and professor | |||
| ==Z== | ==Z== | ||
| * ] (born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction | |||
| * ] (1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright | |||
| * ] | |||
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This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Misplaced Pages articles. The list also includes non-American authors resident in the US and American writers of African descent.
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A
- Aberjhani (born 1957), historian, columnist, novelist, poet, artist and editor
- Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), political activist and journalist
- Linda Addison (born 1952), author and poet
- Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author and creative writing coach
- Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA for poetry, 1999
- Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist
- Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright
- Kwame Alexander (born 1968), writer of poetry and children's fiction
- Larry D. Alexander (born 1953), author and artist
- Lewis Grandison Alexander (1898–1945)
- Candace Allen (born 1950), novelist, cultural critic and screenwriter
- Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859–1941), author and educator
- Robert L. Allen (born 1942), activist, writer and academic
- Garland Anderson (1886–1939), playwright
- Maya Angelou (1928–2014), author and poet
- Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), novelist, filmmaker, teacher and journalist
- Ray Aranha (1939–2011), actor, playwright and stage director
- Chalmers Archer (1928–2014), author, veteran and educator
- M. K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982), author, poet, screenwriter, professor
- Jabari Asim (born 1962), poet, playwright, professor
- Russell Atkins (1926–2024), musician, playwright and poet
- William Attaway (1911–1986), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright and screenwriter
B
- Calvin Baker (born 1972), novelist
- James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and activist
- Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995)
- Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959–2011)
- Amiri Baraka (1934–2014)
- Shauna Barbosa (born c. 1988), poet
- Steven Barnes (born 1952)
- Lindon W. Barrett (1961–2008)
- Samuel Alfred Beadle (1857–1932)
- Paul Beatty (born 1962)
- Robert Beck (1918–1992)
- Christopher C. Bell (born 1933)
- Derrick Bell (1930–2011)
- Brit Bennett (living)
- Gwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981)
- Hal Bennett (1936–2004)
- Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928–2018)
- Bertice Berry (born 1960)
- Venise T. Berry (living), novelist
- Henry Bibb (1815–1854)
- Eleanor Taylor Bland (1944–2010), writer of crime fiction
- Marita Bonner (1899–1971)
- Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)
- James Boggs (1919–1993)
- Demico Boothe (living), writer on civil rights
- David Bradley (born 1950)
- William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), poet and literary critic
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
- Claude Brown (1937–2002)
- Hallie Quinn Brown (1849–1949)
- Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995)
- Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia
- William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853)
- Anatole Broyard (1920-1990)
- Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
- Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author of romance and mainstream fiction novels
- Ed Bullins (1935–2021)
- Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944)
- Octavia Butler (1947–2006)
- Roderick D. Bush (1945–2013)
C
- George Cain (1943–2010)
- Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006)
- Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998)
- Ben Carson (born 1951)
- Jennie Carter (1830–1881)
- Stephen L. Carter (born 1954)
- Cyrus Cassells (born 1957)
- Kashana Cauley (living)
- Lady Chablis (1957–2016), actress, author, drag performer
- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), novelist and short-story writer
- Alice Childress (1916–1994), playwright and novelist
- Breena Clarke (living)
- Cheril N. Clarke (born 1980)
- Cheryl Clarke (born 1947)
- John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998)
- Stanley Bennett Clay (born 1950), writer, director, actor, publisher
- Troy CLE (living)
- Pearl Cleage (born 1948)
- Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998)
- Michelle Cliff (1946–2016)
- Lucille Clifton (1936–2010)
- Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born 1966)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975)
- Wanda Coleman (1946–2013)
- Marvel Cooke (1903–2000)
- Anna J. Cooper (1858–1964)
- J. California Cooper (1931–2014), playwright
- James Corrothers (1869–1917)
- Jayne Cortez (1934–2012)
- Bill Cosby (born 1937)
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. (1861–1949)
- Donald Crews (born 1938), children's book author
- Stanley Crouch (1945–2020)
- Harold Cruse (1916–2005)
- Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
- Waring Cuney (1906–1976)
- Christopher Paul Curtis (born 1953)
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- Jeffrey Daniels (living), poet
- Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967)
- Christopher Darden (born 1956)
- Angela Davis (born 1944) political activist, writer, and professor.
- Frank Marshall Davis (1905–1987)
- Kyra Davis (born 1972), novelist
- Milton Davis (living)
- George Dawson (1898–2001)
- Samuel R. Delany, novelist, author, editor, professor, and literary critic
- Eric Jerome Dickey (1961–2021)
- Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966)
- Nahshon Dion (born 1978)
- Lonnie Dixon (1932–2011)
- Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
- Rita Dove (born 1952), poet and educator. Youngest person and first Black American to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
- Sharon Draper (born 1948)
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member of the NAACP His most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk.
- Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative fiction, and professor of Black Horror and Afrofuturism
- Henry Dumas (1934–1968)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), poet
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)
- David Anthony Durham (born 1969)
- Richard Durham, (1917–1984), wrote radio series Destination Freedom
- Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958)
E
- Cornelius Eady (born 1954)
- Sarah Jane Woodson Early (1825–1907), educator, activist and author
- Junius Edwards (1929–2008)
- Ralph Ellison (1913–1994), novelist, best known as author of Invisible Man
- Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797)
- Don Evans (1938–2003), playwright
- Mari Evans (1919–2017), poet
- Percival Everett (born 1956)
- Eve Ewing (born 1986), author, educator, poet, and sociologist
F
- Sarah Webster Fabio (1928–1979)
- Ronald Fair (1932–2018)
- Sarah Farro, 19th-century novelist
- John M. Faucette (1943–2003), science-fiction author
- Arthur Huff Fauset (1899–1983)
- Jessie Fauset (1882–1961), editor, poet, essayist and novelist
- London R. Ferebee (1849–1883), preacher and author
- Lolita Files (living), author, screenwriter and producer
- Antwone Fisher (born 1959)
- Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934), novelist, short story writer and dramatist
- Sharon G. Flake (born 1955), writer of young adult literature
- Robert Fleming (living), journalist and writer of erotic fiction and horror fiction
- Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862–1905), poet
- Namina Forna (born 1987), author and screen writer
- Leon Forrest (1937–1997), novelist
- Tonya Foster (living), poet, essayist and educator
- J. E. Franklin (born 1937), playwright
- John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), historian, sociologist, memoirist
- Hoyt W. Fuller (1923–1981)
- Nina Foxx (living), novelist, playwright and screenwriter
G
- Ernest Gaines (1933–2019), fiction writer
- Ruth Gaines-Shelton (1872–1938), educator and playwright
- Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
- Tony Gaskins (born 1984), motivational, inspirational, self-help writer
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950)
- Roxane Gay (born 1974)
- Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024)
- Roy Glenn (1914–1971), fiction writer, Is It A Crime, Payback
- Donald Goines (1936–1974)
- Marita Golden (born 1950)
- Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1897–1980), poet, fiction writer
- Eugene Gordon (1891–1972), journalist
- Charles Gordone (1925–1995), playwright
- Amanda Gorman (born 1998), poet
- Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962)
- Moses Grandy (born c. 1786)
- Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), travel writer
- Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), children's book author
- Sam Greenlee (1930–2014), novelist, poet, best known as author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Bonnie Greer (born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic
- Deborah Gregory, author of The Cheetah Girls book series
- Dick Gregory (1932–2017)
- Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933)
- Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's book author and poet
- Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958)
- Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914)
- Rosa Guy (1922–2012)
- John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
- Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author of Homegoing.
H
- Alex Haley (1921–1992), author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002), author of children's books
- Henry Hampton (1940–1998)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), playwright
- Joyce Hansen (born 1942), author of children's books
- Vincent Harding (1931–2014), historian and social activist
- Edward W. Hardy (born 1992), playwright
- Nathan Hare (born 1933)
- Frances Harper (1825–1911), poet and abolitionist
- E. Lynn Harris (1955–2009)
- Juanita Harrison (1891–?)
- Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) writer and academic, known for her seminal work Scenes of Subjection
- Robert Hayden (1913–1980), poet, essayist, educator
- Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), poet and activist
- David Henderson (poet) (born 1942)
- Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950–2001), poet
- Chester Himes (1909–1984), novelist
- Kameisha Jerae Hodge (born 1989)
- Corey J. Hodges (born 1970)
- Karla F. C. Holloway (born 1949)
- bell hooks (1952—2021), feminist, and social activist
- Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930), novelist, journalist, playwright, historian and editor
- Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based in California
- George Moses Horton (1798–after 1867)
- Roberta Hoskie, real-estate broker, writer, and media personality
- Tracie Howard, fiction writer
- Detrick Hughes (born 1966)
- Langston Hughes (1901–1967), poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), folklorist, anthropologist, author of novels short stories, plays and essays
I
- Jordan Ifueko (born 1993)
- Rashidah Ismaili (born 1941), poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright
J
- Brenda Jackson (born 1953)
- Jesse C. Jackson (1908–1983), young-adult novelist
- Mae Jackson (born 1946), poet
- Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
- T. D. Jakes (born 1957)
- Ayize Jama-Everett (born 1974), science fiction and speculative fiction writer
- John Jea (1773–after 1817)
- N. K. Jemisin (born 1972), writer of speculative fiction. First person to win three consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel.
- Beverly Jenkins (born 1951)
- Joseph Jewell (living)
- Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), poet, writer and Black lesbian activist
- Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)
- Angela Johnson (born 1961)
- Charles R. Johnson (born 1948)
- Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), poet
- Helene Johnson (1906–1995), poet
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), writer and civil rights activist
- Mat Johnson (born 1970)
- Varian Johnson (born 1977)
- Edward P. Jones (born 1950), novelist and short-story writer
- Gayl Jones (born 1949), novelist
- Tayari Jones (born 1970), author and academic
- June Jordan (1936–2002), poet, essayist and activist
K
- Ron Karenga (born 1941)
- Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), poet
- Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907)
- William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017), novelist
- Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (1863–1938), novelist
- Randall Kenan (1963–2020)
- Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), playwright
- Nina Kennedy (born 1960), memoirist, screenwriter
- John Oliver Killens (1916–1987), novelist
- Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949)
- Emeline King (born 1957)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
- Woodie King Jr. (born 1937)
- Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), poet
- Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1941)
L
- Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923–2008), poet, editor and teacher
- Nella Larsen (1891–1964), novelist
- Victor LaValle (born 1972)
- Brent Leggs, historian and preservationist, writer, academic
- Andrea Lee (born 1953), novelist and memoirist
- Julius Lester (1939–2018)
- David Levering Lewis (born 1936)
- Willie Little (born 1961) author, multimedia artist
- Alain Locke (1885–1954) writer
- Attica Locke (born 1974), novelist
- Audre Lorde (1934–1992), author, poet, activist
- Bettina L. Love, abolitionist educator and writer
- Glenville Lovell (born 1955), novelist and playwright
M
- Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), poet, theologian, essayist
- Nathaniel Mackey (born 1947), poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic and editor
- Naomi Long Madgett (1923–2020), poet
- Haki R. Madhubuti (born 1942)
- Clarence Major (born 1936), poet, painter and novelist
- Raynetta Manees (living), novelist
- Manning Marable (1950–2011)
- John Marrant (1755–1791)
- Paule Marshall (1929–2019)
- Ora Mae Lewis Martin (1889–1977), journalist and writer
- Hans Massaquoi (1926–2013)
- Brandon Massey (born 1973)
- Victoria Earle Matthews (1861–1907), essayist, newspaperwoman, activist
- Julian Mayfield (1928–1984)
- James McBride (writer) (born 1957)
- Nathan McCall (born 1955)
- Bernice McFadden (born 1965), novelist
- Claude McKay (1889–1948)
- Patricia McKissack (1944–2017)
- Reginald McKnight (born 1956)
- Kim McLarin (born 1964), novelist
- Terry McMillan (born 1951), novelist
- James Alan McPherson (1943–2016)
- Louise Meriwether (1923–2023), novelist, essayist, journalist and activist
- Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951)
- E. Ethelbert Miller (born 1950), poet
- May Miller (1899–1995), poet and playwright
- Arthenia J. Bates Millican (1920–2012), poet, essayist and educator
- Mary Monroe (living), novelist
- Anne Moody (1940–2015)
- Jessica Care Moore (born 1971), poet
- Toni Morrison (1931–2019), author, Nobel laureate 1993
- E. Frederic Morrow (c.1909–1994), first black American appointed to a president's administration (1955–60)
- Walter Mosley (born 1952), novelist
- Thylias Moss (born 1954)
- Willard Motley (1909–1965)
- Jess Mowry (born 1960)
- Albert Murray (1916–2013)
- Pauli Murray (1910–1985)
- Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014), writer of children's books
N
- Tariq Nasheed (living)
- Gloria Naylor (1950–2016)
- Larry Neal (1937–1981)
- Barbara Neely (1941–2020), novelist, short-story writer and activist
- Huey P. Newton (1942–1989)
- Richard Bruce Nugent (1906–1987)
O
- Mwatabu S. Okantah (born 1952) poet and professor
- Gabriel Okara (1921–2019), poet and novelist
- Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974), writer of science fiction and fantasy
- Marc Olden (1933–2003), author of mystery and suspense
- Porsha Olayiwola (born 1988)
- Rita Omokha (living), journalist and author
- Terry a. O'Neal (born 1973)
- Tochi Onyebuchi (born 1987), science fiction and fantasy writer and former civil rights lawyer
- Roscoe Orman (born 1944)
- Ewuare Osayande (living)
- Brenda Marie Osbey (born 1957), poet
- Candace Owens (born 1989), political activist
P
- ZZ Packer (born 1973)
- Gordon Parks (1912–2006), photographer, composer, author, poet, and film directo
- Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963), playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist
- Tyler Perry (born 1969), actor, filmmaker and playwright
- Eric Pete (living), novelist and short-story writer
- Ann Petry (1908–1997), writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism
- Debra Phillips (born 1959)
- Delores Phillips (1950–2014), poet and novelist
- Steve Phillips (born 1964), author, columnist, political thought leader
- William Pickens (1881–1954), orator, educator, journalist, and essayist.
- Ann Plato (born c. 1824), educator and author
- Sterling Plumpp (born 1940), educator and author
- Carlene Hatcher Polite (1932–2009)
- Alvin F. Poussaint (born 1934)
- Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University
- Robert Earl Price (born 1942), playwright and poet
R
- Aishah Rahman (1936–2014), playwright
- Alice Randall (born 1959), author and songwriter
- Dudley Randall (1914–2000), poet and publisher
- Cordelia Ray (1852–1916), poet and teacher
- Francis Ray (1944–2013), writer of romance fiction
- Andy Razaf (1895–1973), poet, composer and lyricist
- Ishmael Reed (born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist
- Kiley Reid (born 1987), novelist
- Jason Reynolds (born 1983), YA/Middle-Grade novelist/poet
- Willis Richardson (1889–1977), playwright
- Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943), essayist and short-story writer
- Harrison David Rivers (born 1981), playwright
- Cliff Roquemore (1948–2002), writer, producer and director
- Carolyn Rodgers (1940–2010), poet
- Octavia V. Rogers Albert (1853–c. 1890)
- Al Roker (born 1954)
- Fran Ross (1935–1985)
- Shawn Stewart Ruff, novelist
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924), journalist
- Malinda Russell (c. 1812–?), author of the first known cookbook by a Black woman in the United States
- Rachel Renee Russell (born 1959), author of the Dork Diaries series of children's novels
- Carl Hancock Rux, poet, essayist, playwright, novelist
- Rupaul (born 1960), actor, author, drag performer, TV show host
S
- Kalamu ya Salaam (born 1947), poet, author, filmmaker, teacher, activist
- Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), poet
- Dori Sanders (born 1934) novelist
- Sapphire (born 1950)
- Charles R. Saunders (1946–2020), author and journalist
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), historian, writer, and activist
- George Schuyler (1895–1977), author, journalist and social commentator
- Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), poet and musician
- Clara Johnson Scroggins (1931–2019), author, collector
- Sandra Seaton (living), playwright and librettist
- Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
- Fatima Shaik (living), author
- Tupac Shakur (1971–1996)
- Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), playwright and poet
- Nisi Shawl (born 1955)
- Sister Souljah (born 1964)
- Iceberg Slim (1918–1992)
- Amanda Smith (1837–1915)
- Danez Smith (living), poet
- Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), poet
- William Gardner Smith (1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor
- Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, social theorist, political philosopher
- A. B. Spellman (born 1935)
- Anne Spencer (1882–1975), poet
- Aurin Squire (born 1979), producer, playwright, screenwriter and reporter
- Theophilus Gould Steward (1843–1924)
- Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879), journalist, lecturer, abolitionist, women's rights activist
- Jeffrey C. Stewart (born 1950), professor and Pulitzer prize winner
- Nic Stone (born 1985)
T
- Ellen Tarry (1906–2008)
- Mildred D. Taylor (born 1943)
- Susie Taylor (1848–1912)
- Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
- Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821)
- Michael Thelwell (born 1939)
- Angie Thomas (born 1988)
- Clarence Thomas (born 1948)
- Joyce Carol Thomas (1938–2016), author, poet, playwright, and motivational speaker
- Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005)
- Piri Thomas (1928–2011)
- Truth Thomas (living)
- Pamela Thomas-Graham (born 1963)
- Era Bell Thompson (1905–1986)
- Howard Thurman (1899–1981)
- Wallace Thurman (1902–1934)
- Ruth D. Todd (1878–?)
- Lynn Toler (born 1959)
- Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
- Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
- Touré (born 1971)
- Askia M. Touré (born 1938), poet, essayist, leading voice of the Black Arts Movement
- Quincy Troupe (born 1939)
- Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883)
- Omar Tyree (born 1969)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958)
V
- Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011), novelist, editor, teacher and musician
- Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009), professor, author, historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University
- Bethany Veney (c. 1813–1916), author of Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)
- Olympia Vernon (born 1973), novelist
W
- Dwyane Wade (born 1982)
- Alice Walker (born 1944)
- Frank X. Walker (born 1961), founding member of Affrilachian poets
- Margaret Walker (1915–1998), novelist, poet and writer
- Christopher George Latore Wallace (1972–1997)
- Michele Wallace (born 1952)
- Eric Walrond (1898–1966)
- Leonard Pitts, novelist, commentator, journalist, and columnist
- Mildred Pitts Walter (born 1922)
- Marilyn Nelson Waniek (born 1946)
- Douglas Turner Ward (1930–2021)
- Jesmyn Ward (born 1977)
- Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
- Frank J. Webb (1828–c.1894), novelist, poet, essayist
- Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
- Richard Wesley (born 1945), playwright, screenwriter
- Valerie Wilson Wesley (born 1947)
- Cornel West (born 1953)
- Dorothy West (1907–1998), novelist
- Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first published African-American poet
- Walter Francis White (1893–1955)
- Colson Whitehead (born 1969), novelist (The Intuitionist, The Underground Railroad) and journalist
- Steven Whitehurst (born 1967), award-winning author
- Albery Allson Whitman (1851–1901), poet, minister and orator
- Anthony Whyte, writer of urban and hip-hop literature
- John Edgar Wideman (born 1941)
- Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961)
- Crystal Wilkinson (living)
- Alicia D. Williams (born 1970), children's novelist
- Chancellor Williams (1893–1992), historian and sociologist
- John Alfred Williams (1925–2015), author, journalist and academic
- Samm-Art Williams (born 1946), playwright
- Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
- Walter E. Williams (1936–2020)
- August Wilson (1945–2005)
- Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist
- Kathy Y. Wilson (d. 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator
- William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, and The Declining Significance of Race
- Oprah Winfrey (born 1954)
- Carter G. Woodson (1875–1950)
- Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author of books for children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming"
- David Wright (born 1964)
- Jay Wright (born 1935), poet
- Kelly Wright, author of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation
- Richard Wright (1908–1960), writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction
- Sarah E. Wright, novelist
- David F. Walker, comic book writer and novelist
X
Y
- Camille Yarbrough (born 1938)
- Frank Yerby (1916–1991), historical novelist
- Al Young (1939–2021), poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter and professor
Z
- Zane (born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction
- Ahmos Zu-Bolton (1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright
See also
- List of African-American nonfiction writers
- List of Black New York Times Best Selling Authors
- African-American literature
- Lists of writers
- Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States
- Before Columbus Foundation
- List of Mexican-American writers
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