List of African-American writers

This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles. The list also includes non-American authors resident in the US and American writers of African descent.

A

Maya Angelou

B

James Baldwin

C

D

Frederick Douglass
W. E. B. Du Bois

E

Ralph Ellison

F

G

H

Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston

I

J

K

Martin Luther King Jr.

L

M

Toni Morrison

N

O

P

R

S

T

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

X

Y

Z

  • Zane (born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction
  • Ahmos Zu-Bolton (1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright

See also


This page was last updated at 2023-12-24 17:55 UTC. Update now. View original page.

All our content comes from Wikipedia and under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.


Top

If mathematical, chemical, physical and other formulas are not displayed correctly on this page, please useFirefox or Safari