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.

 
Maya Angelou
 
James Baldwin
 
Frederick Douglass
 
W. E. B. Du Bois
 
Ralph Ellison
 
Langston Hughes
 
Zora Neale Hurston
 
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Toni Morrison
  • 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
  • Zane (born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction
  • Ahmos Zu-Bolton (1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright

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References

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