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Black/African American Authors Project

In this guide you will find lists of authors, books, and other digital and print resources to complete the English 11 Black/African American authors project.

Pre-1800

Antebellum

  • Phillis Wheatley
  • David Walker
  • Jarena Lee
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Harriet Jacobs
  • Sojourner Truth
  • William Wells Brown
  • Martin Robison Delany
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Harriet E. Wilson
  • James M. Whitefield
  • Lucy Terry
  • Jupiter Hammon 

1800-1900

  • Charlotte Forten
  • Elizabeth Keckley
  • Albery Allson Whitman
  • Henry Walton Bibb 
  • Hallie Quinn Brown
  • William Wells Brown
  • Jennie Carter
  • Anna J Cooper
  • W.E.B. Du Bois

1900 -

  • 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
  • Bowen , Michele Andrea
  • Briscoe , Connie 
  • Brooks, Gwendolyn
  • Bunkley , Anita Richmond
  • Butler , Octavia E.
  • Campbell , Bebe Moore
  • Carter , Charlotte 
  • Cary , Lorene
  • Chase-Riboud , Barbara
  • Clarke , Austin
  • Clifton, Lucille
  • Cleage , Pearl
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi
  • Cooper , J.  California 
  • Danticat , Edwidge
  • Delany , Samuel R.
  • DeLoach , Nora
  • Deonn, Tracey
  • Dickey , Eric Jerome
  • Dove , Rita
  • Draper , Sharon Mills
  • Due , Tananarive
  • Durham , David  Anthony 
  • Edwards , Grace F.
  • Ellison, Ralph
  • Everett , Percival
  • Ford , Aisha
  • Forster , Gwynne
  • Fos , Sharon Ewell
  • Gaines , Ernest J.
  • Giovanni, Nikki
  • Goines , Donald
  • Haley , Alex
  • Haley , Patricia 
  • Hamilton , Virginia 
  • Hansberry , Lorraine
  • Hardwick , Gary
  • Harris , E. Lynn
  • Haywood , Gar Anthony
  • Hill , Donna
  • Himes , Chester
  • hooks , bell
  • Hopkinson , Nalo
  • Hughes , Langston
  • Holton, Hugh
  • Hurston , Zora Neale
  • Jackson , Brenda
  • Jackson , Tiffany
  • Jenkins , Beverly
  • Joe , Yolanda
  • Johnson , Angela
  • Jones , Gayl
  • Kincaid , Jamaica 
  • Kitt , Sandra
  • Larsen, Nella
  • Lester , Julius 
  • Marshall , Paule
  • Mason , Felicia
  • McBride , James
  • McEachin , James
  • McFadden , Bernice L.
  • McGruder , Aaron
  • McKay, Claude
  • McKinney-Whetstone , Diane 
  • McMillan , Terry
  • Morrison , Toni 
  • Mosley , Walter 
  • Myers , Walter Dean
  • Naylor , Gloria 
  • Neely , Barbara
  • Noah, Trevor
  • Palfrey , Evelyn
  • Pate , Alexs D.
  • Phillips , Garry
  • Porter, Connie Rose
  • Poston , Jeffrey A.
  • Ray , Francis 
  • Reed , Ishmael
  • Reynolds , Jason
  • Ridley , John
  • Roby, Kimberla Lawson
  • Monroe, Mary
  • Sanchez , Sonia
  • Sister Souljah
  • Slim , Iceberg 
  • Snoe , Eboni
  • Stringer , Vickie M.
  • Taylor , Mildred D.
  • Thomas , Angie
  • Tyree , Omar
  • Walker , Alice 
  • Walker , Frank X.
  • Weber , Carl
  • Wesley , Valerie Wilson
  • West , Chassie L.
  • West, Dr. Cornel 
  • Wideman , John Edgar
  • Williams , John A.
  • Wilson , August
  • Woods , Paula L.
  • Woodson , Jacqueline 
  • Wootson , Alice 
  • Wright , Courtni
  • Wright , Richard 
  • Yerby , Frank
  • , Zane