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Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist. Kathy Y. Wilson (d. 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator. William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, and The Declining Significance of Race.
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950), literary critic and Harvard professor. Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962), attorney, speaker, and New York Times best-selling author. John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso.
This is a list of books written by black authors that have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list in any ranking or category. The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category. [1]
Folding "cabinet-bed", forerunner of the Murphy bed; first African-American woman to receive a patent in the United States. [ 81][ 82][ 83] Grant, George F. 1846–1910. Dentist, professor. The first African-American professor at Harvard, Boston dentist, and inventor of a wooden golf tee . [ 84] Graves, Joseph L.
Ki-Jana Carter. Vednita Carter. Bernie Casey. Cyrus Cassells. Colin Channer. (previous page) ( next page ) Categories: 21st-century African-American people by occupation. 21st-century American writers.
African-American songwriters (3 C, 840 P) Pages in category "African-American writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 388 total.
This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa. It includes poets , novelists , children's writers , essayists , and scholars , listed by country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.