Literature
Literature
Robert Sengstacke Abbott (newspaper publisher)
Maya Angelou (poet; playwright; actress; dancer)
James Baldwin (novelist; essayist; playwright)
Imamu Amiri Baraka (poet; playwright; essayist)
Arna Bontemps (poet; novelist; editor; teacher)
Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)
Claude Brown (author)
Charles Waddell Chestnutt (author; attorney; political activist)
Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter) (poet; novelist; children’s writer; playwright)
William Edward Burghart Du Bois (W. E. B. Du Bois) (civil rights activist; author; historian)
Paul Laurence Dunbar (poet; novelist; playwright)
Ralph Walso Ellison (novelist)
Charles Fuller (playwright)
Ernest James Gaines (author)
Nikki Giovanni (poet; teacher)
Alex Palmer Haley (writer)
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (playwright; writer)
Robert Earl Hayden (born Asa Bundy Sheffey) (poet; essayist)
Chester Bomar Himes (writer)
Langston Hughes (born James Mercer Langston Hughes) (poet; novelist; playwright; social activist)
Zora Neale Hurston (author; anthropologist)
James Weldon Johnson (writer; civil rights activist; diplomat)
Alain Leroy Locke (author; philosopher; educator)
Festus Claudius “Claude” McKay (poet)
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford)
Lucy Terry Price (also known as Lucy Terry) (poet)
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Eugene Toomer) (novelist; dramatist; poet)
Alice Malsenior Walker (novelist; short story writer; poet; social activist)
David Walker (writer; abolitionist)
Phillis Wheatley (poet)
John Edgar Wideman (novelist; short story writer; memoirist; essayist)
August Wilson (playwright; poet)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (novelist; short story writer; poet)