African-American Authors Book List

Maya Angelou
Donna Hill
Tina McElroy Ansa
Langston Hughes
James Baldwin
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Cade Bambara
Sheneska Jackson
Amiri Baraka
T.D. Jakes
Lerone Bennett
Charles Johnson
Bertrice Berry
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Venise Berry
Bessie Jones
Arna Bontemps
Jamaica Kincaid
Julia A. Boyd
Martin Luther King
Connie Briscoe
Jawanza Kunjufu
Gwendolyn Brooks
Julius Lester
Claude Brown
Clarence Major
William Wells Brown
Paule Marshall
Anita Richmond Bunkley
Rosalyn McMillan
Octavia Butler
Terry McMillan
Tajuana Butler
James McPherson
Bebe Moore Campbell
Louise Merriweather
Veronica Chambers
Carolyn Meyer
Pearl Cleage
Toni Morrison
Floyd Cooper
Walter Mosley
J. California Cooper
Walter Dean Myers
Bill Cosby
Gloria Naylor
Edwidge Danticat
Barbara Neely
Christopher Darden
Kris Nelscott
Sarah Delany
Lionel Newton
Eric Jerome Dickey
Gwendolyn M. Parker
Rita Dove
Steven Pressfield
Paul Dunbar
Patty Rice
Ralph Ellison
Philip Roth
Rita Ewing
Ntozake Shange
Tom Feelings
April Sinclair
Lolita Files
Camika Spencer
Ernest Gaines
Renee Swindle
Henry Louis Gates
Mildred Taylor
Nelson George
Omar Tyree
Nikki Giovanni
Iyanla Vanzant
Marita Golden
Alice Walker
Rosa Guy
Margaret Walker
Alex Haley
Booker T. Washington
Patricia Haley-Brown
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Lorraine Hansberry
Phillis Wheatley
E. Lynn Harris
John Edgar Wideman
David Haynes
Sherley Anne Williams
Richard Wright