The following list includes African-American writers, poets, journalists, and playwrights, who contributed to the advancement of literature in the United States, including Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and more.
Maya Angelou, poet, writer, composer, actress
James Baldwin, American author
Imamu Amira Baraka, American poet, playwright, and political activist
Arna Bontemps, novelist
Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet
Octavia Butler, science fiction writer
Ed Bullins, playwright
Charles W. Chesnutt, American author and lawyer
Countee Cullen, American poet
Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and novelist
Ralph Ellison, American author
Charles Fuller, playwright
Nikki Giovanni, poet
Alex Haley, author
Jupiter Hammon, American poet
Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright
Bell Hooks, writer
Langston Hughes, American poet
Zora Neale Hurston, American writer
James Weldon Johnson, American author
Jamaica Kincaid, writer
Nella Larsen, American writer
Toni Morrison, novelist
Ann Lane Petry, novelist
Leonard Pitts, Jr., journalist, writer
Carl Thomas Rowan, journalist
John Russwurm, U.S. journalist and Liberian statesman
Ignatius Sancho, writer
Ntozke Shange, writer
Wallace Thurman, writer
Jean Toomer, writer
Gustavus Vassa, writer
Alice Walker, author
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, journalist, activist
Dorothy West, writer
Phillis Wheatley, American poet
John Edgar Wideman, writer
August Wilson, playwright, poet
Richard Wright, American author
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