Literature


Literature

  1. Robert Sengstacke Abbott (newspaper publisher)

  2. Maya Angelou (poet; playwright; actress; dancer)

  3. James Baldwin (novelist; essayist; playwright)

  4. Imamu Amiri Baraka (poet; playwright; essayist)

  5. Arna Bontemps (poet; novelist; editor; teacher)

  6. Gwendolyn Brooks (poet)

  7. Claude Brown (author)

  8. Charles Waddell Chestnutt (author; attorney; political activist)

  9. Countee Cullen (born Countee LeRoy Porter) (poet; novelist; children’s writer; playwright)

  10. William Edward Burghart Du Bois (W. E. B. Du Bois) (civil rights activist; author; historian)

  11. Paul Laurence Dunbar (poet; novelist; playwright)

  12. Ralph Walso Ellison (novelist)

  13. Charles Fuller (playwright)

  14. Ernest James Gaines (author)

  15. Nikki Giovanni (poet; teacher)

  16. Alex Palmer Haley (writer)

  17. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (playwright; writer)

  18. Robert Earl Hayden (born Asa Bundy Sheffey) (poet; essayist)

  19. Chester Bomar Himes (writer)

  20. Langston Hughes (born James Mercer Langston Hughes) (poet; novelist; playwright; social activist)

  21. Zora Neale Hurston (author; anthropologist)

  22. James Weldon Johnson (writer; civil rights activist; diplomat)

  23. Alain Leroy Locke (author; philosopher; educator)

  24. Festus Claudius “Claude” McKay (poet)

  25. Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford)

  26. Lucy Terry Price (also known as Lucy Terry) (poet)

  27. Jean Toomer (born Nathan Eugene Toomer) (novelist; dramatist; poet)

  28. Alice Malsenior Walker (novelist; short story writer; poet; social activist)

  29. David Walker (writer; abolitionist)

  30. Phillis Wheatley (poet)

  31. John Edgar Wideman (novelist; short story writer; memoirist; essayist)

  32. August Wilson (playwright; poet)

  33. Richard Nathaniel Wright (novelist; short story writer; poet)