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 Notable African-American Literary Figures
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.
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- 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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