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African American Authors (including non-fiction)
- Brown, William Wells
- Delany, Martin Robison
- Douglass, Frederick
- Hammon, Jupiter
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Jacobs, Harriet
- Lee, Jarena
- Stewart, Marie W.
- Terry, Lucy
- Truth, Sojourner
- Walker, David
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Whitefield, James M.
- Wilson, Harriet E.
- Bibb , Henry Walton
- Brown, Hallie Quinn
- Carter, Jennie
- Cooper, Anna J
- Forten, Charlotte
- Keckley, Elizabeth
- Whitman, Albery Allson
- Alers, Rochelle
- Angelou, Maya
- Ansa, Tina McElroy
- Baldwin, James
- Bambara, Toni Cade
- Banks, Leslie Esdaile
- Baraka, Amiri
- Barnes, Steven
- Benson, Angela
- Bland, Eleanor Taylor
- Bontemps, Arna
- Briscoe, Connie
- Bunkley, Anita Richmond
- Butler, Octavia E.
- Campbell, Bebe Moore
- Carter, Charlotte
- Cary, Lorene
- Clarke, Austin
- Cleage, Pearl
- Cooper, J. California
- Danticat, Edwidge
- Delany, Samuel R.
- DeLoach, Nora
- Dickey, Eric Jerome
- Dove, Rita
- Draper, Sharon Mills
- Due, Tananarive
- Edwards, Grace F.
- Everett, Percival
- Ford, Aisha
- Forster, Gwynne
- Foster, Sharon Ewell
- Gaines, Ernest J.
- Goines, Donald
- Haley, Alex
- Haley, Patricia
- Hamilton, Virginia
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hardwick, Gary
- Harris, E. Lynn
- Haywood, Gar Anthony
- Hill, Donna
- Himes, Chester
- Hopkinson, Nalo
- Hughes, Langston
- Holton, Hugh
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Jackson, Brenda
- Jenkins, Beverly
- Joe, Yolanda
- Johnson, Angela
- Jones, Gayl
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Kitt, Sandra
- Lester, Julius
- Malcolm X
- Marshall, Paule
- Mason, Felicia
- McBride, James
- McEachin, James
- McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
- McMillan, Terry
- Monroe, Mary
- Morrison, Toni
- Mosley, Walter
- Myers, Walter Dean
- Naylor, Gloria
- Neely, Barbara
- Obama, Barack
- Palfrey, Evelyn
- Pate, Alexs D.
- Phillips, Garry
- Porter, Connie Rose
- Ray, Francis
- Reed, Ishmael
- Ridley, John
- Roby, Kimberla Lawson
- Sister Souljah
- Slim, Iceberg
- Snoe, Eboni
- Taylor, Mildred D.
- Tyree, Omar
- Walker, Alice
- Weber, Carl
- Wesley, Valerie Wilson
- West, Chassie L.
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Williams, John A.
- Woods, Paula L.
- Woodson, Jacqueline
- Wright, Courtni
- Wright, Richard
- Yerby, Frank
- Akilah, Shani
- Bowen, Michele Andrea
- Cole, Kamilah
- Durham, David Anthony
- Gorman, Amanda
- McFadden, Bernice L.
- McGruder, Aaron
- Obama, Michelle
- Poston, Jeffrey A.
- Shenje, Kuchenga
- Stringer, Vickie M.
- Walker, Frank X.
- Wootson, Alice
