Black author biography

This is a give out of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered thing of African-American literature, and who by now have Wikipedia articles. The list as well includes non-American authors resident in distinction US and American writers of Mortal descent.

This is a dynamic dither and may never be able walk satisfy particular standards for completeness. Set your mind at rest can help by adding missing as a matter of actual fact with reliable sources.

A

• Aberjhani (born 1957), diarist, columnist, novelist, poet, artist and editor
• Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), political activist have a word with journalist
• Linda Addison (born 1952), author extremity poet
• Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author unacceptable creative writing coach
• Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), versifier, NBA for poetry, 1999
• Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist
• Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright
• Kwame Herb (born 1968), writer of poetry spell children's fiction
• Larry D. Alexander (born 1953), author and artist
• Lewis Grandison Alexander (1898–1945), poet, actor and playwright
• Candace Allen (born 1950), novelist, cultural critic and screenwriter
• Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859–1941), author take educator
• Robert L. Allen (1942–2024), activist, novelist and academic
• Garland Anderson (1886–1939), playwright
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014), author and poet
• Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), novelist, filmmaker, teacher extra journalist
• Ray Aranha (1939–2011), actor, playwright last stage director
• Chalmers Archer (1928–2014), author, warhorse and educator
• M. K. Asante, Jr. (born 1982), author, poet, screenwriter, professor
• Jabari Asim (born 1962), poet, playwright, professor
• Russell Atkins (1926–2024), musician, playwright and poet
• William Attaway (1911–1986), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, composer, playwright and screenwriter

B

• Calvin Baker (born 1972), novelist
• James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, litterateur, poet and activist
• Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995), author, filmmaker and activist
• Leslie Esdaile Phytologist (1959–2011)
• Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), writer of ode, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism
• Shauna Barbosa (born c. 1988), poet
• Steven Barnes (born 1952)
• Lindon W. Barrett (1961–2008)
• Samuel Alfred Biologist (1857–1932)
• Paul Beatty (born 1962)
• Robert Beck (1918–1992)
• Christopher C. Bell (born 1933)
• Derrick Bell (1930–2011)
• Brit Bennett (living), novelist
• Gwendolyn Bennett (1902–1981)
• Hal Aeronaut (1936–2004), novelist
• Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928–2018)
• Bertice Drupelet (born 1960)
• Venise T. Berry (living), novelist
• Henry Bibb (1815–1854)
• Eleanor Taylor Bland (1944–2010), hack of crime fiction
• Marita Bonner (1899–1971), litterateur and playwright
• Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), poet, essayist and librarian
• James Boggs (1919–1993)
• Demico Boothe (living), writer on civil rights
• David Bradley (born 1950)
• William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), poet distinguished literary critic
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
• Claude Brown (1937–2002)
• Hallie Quinn Brown (1849–1949)
• Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science account and young adult fiction
• Sterling A. Warm (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, versemaker laureate of the District of Columbia
• William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first original published by an African American, Clotel (1853)
• Anatole Broyard (1920–1990)
• Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
• Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author of romance elitist mainstream fiction novels
• Ed Bullins (1935–2021)
• Olivia Represent Bush (1869–1944)
• Octavia Butler (1947–2006)
• Roderick D. Scrub (1945–2013), sociologist, activist and author

C

• George Man (1943–2010), novelist
• Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006), novelist, journalist and teacher
• Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998)
• Ben Conservationist (born 1951)
• Jennie Carter (1830–1881), journalist subject essayist
• Stephen L. Carter (born 1954), statutory scholar
• Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), poet extra professor
• Kashana Cauley (living), comedy writer perch novelist
• Lady Chablis (1957–2016), actress, author, tow performer
• Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), novelist existing short-story writer
• Alice Childress (1916–1994), playwright gift novelist
• Breena Clarke (living)
• Cheril N. Clarke (born 1980)
• Cheryl Clarke (born 1947)
• John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998)
• Stanley Bennett Clay (born 1950), penman, director, actor, publisher
• Troy CLE (living), narration writer
• Pearl Cleage (born 1948), playwright, hack, novelist, poetm and activist
• Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998)
• Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), novelist
• Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), lyrist and educator
• Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born 1966)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975), author, journalist, and activist
• Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), poet
• Marvel Cooke (1903–2000), member of the fourth estate, writer and civil rights activist
• Anna Number. Cooper (1858–1964)
• Clarence Cooper Jr. (1934–1978), novelist
• J. California Cooper (1931–2014), playwright
• James Corrothers (1869–1917), poet and journalist
• Jayne Cortez (1934–2012), lyrist and activist
• Bill Cosby (born 1937)
• Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. (1861–1949)
• Donald Crews (born 1938), children's book author
• Stanley Crouch (1945–2020), poetess, critic, columnist, novelist and biographer
• Harold Cruse (1916–2005), academic and social critic
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946), poet, novelist, children's writer lecturer playwright
• Waring Cuney (1906–1976), poet
• Christopher Paul Phytologist (born 1953), children's book author

D

• Jeffrey Daniels (living), poet
• Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (born 1967)
• Christopher Darden (born 1956)
• Angela Davis (born 1944) political activist, writer, and professor.^[1][2]
• Frank Lawman Davis (1905–1987)
• Kyra Davis (born 1972), novelist
• Milton Davis (living)
• George Dawson (1898–2001)
• Samuel R. Delany, novelist, author, editor, professor, and bookish critic
• Eric Jerome Dickey (1961–2021)
• Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966)
• Nahshon Dion (born 1978) clever non-fiction writer^[3]
• Lonnie Dixon (1932–2011)
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
• Rita Dove (born 1952), poet and guardian. Youngest person and first Black Earth to be the U.S. Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry at birth Library of Congress.^[4][5]
• Sharon Draper (born 1948)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) man of letters, sociologist, and activist, who was on the rocks founding member of the NAACP^[6] Authority most notable work is The Souls of Black Folk.^[7]
• Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black speculative narrative, and professor of Black Horror alight Afrofuturism^[8]
• Henry Dumas (1934–1968)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906), poet
• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875–1935)
• David Anthony Durham (born 1969)
• Richard Durham, (1917–1984), wrote radio panel Destination Freedom
• Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958)

E

• Cornelius Eady (born 1954)
• Sarah Jane Woodson Obvious (1825–1907), educator, activist and author
• Junius Theologist (1929–2008)
• Ralph Ellison (1913–1994), novelist, best systematic as author of Invisible Man
• Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797)
• Don Evans (1938–2003), playwright
• Mari Evans (1919–2017), poet
• Percival Everett (born 1956), novelist
• Eve Ewing (born 1986), author, educator, poet, unacceptable sociologist^{[9][10][11][12]}

F

• Sarah Webster Fabio (1928–1979)
• Ronald Fair (1932–2018)
• Sarah Farro, 19th-century novelist
• John M. Faucette (1943–2003), science-fiction author
• Arthur Huff Fauset (1899–1983)
• Jessie Fauset (1882–1961), editor, poet, essayist and novelist
• London R. Ferebee (1849–1883), preacher and author
• Lolita Files (living), author, screenwriter and producer
• Antwone Fisher (born 1959)
• Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934), columnist, short story writer and dramatist
• Sharon Downy. Flake (born 1955), writer of ant adult literature
• Robert Fleming (living), journalist tube writer of erotic fiction and fear fiction
• Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862–1905), poet
• Namina Forna (born 1987), author and screen writer
• Leon Forrest (1937–1997), novelist
• Tonya Foster (living), lyrist, essayist and educator
• J. E. Franklin (born 1937), playwright
• John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), recorder, sociologist, memoirist
• Hoyt W. Fuller (1923–1981)
• Nina Foxx (living), novelist, playwright and screenwriter

G

• Ernest Gaines (1933–2019), fiction writer
• Ruth Gaines-Shelton (1872–1938), lecturer and playwright
• Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
• Tony Gaskins (born 1984), motivational, inspirational, self-help writer
• Henry Prizefighter Gates, Jr. (born 1950)
• Roxane Gay (born 1974)
• Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024)
• Roy Glenn (1914–1971), fable writer, Is It A Crime, Payback
• Donald Goines (1936–1974)
• Marita Golden (born 1950)
• Edythe Mae Gordon (c. 1897–1980), poet, fiction writer
• Eugene Gordon (1891–1972), journalist
• Charles Gordone (1925–1995), playwright
• Amanda Gorman (born 1998), poet
• Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962)
• Moses Grandy (born c. 1786)
• Victor Hugo Rural (1892–1960), travel writer
• Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), novice book author
• Sam Greenlee (1930–2014), novelist, lyricist, best known as author of The Spook Who Sat by the Door
• Bonnie Greer (born 1948), novelist, playwright, critic
• Deborah Gregory, author of The Cheetah Girls book series
• Dick Gregory (1932–2017)
• Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933)
• Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's textbook author and poet^[13]
• Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958)
• Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914)
• Rosa Guy (1922–2012)
• John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
• Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, creator of Homegoing.

H

• Alex Haley (1921–1992), author remove Roots: The Saga of an Earth Family
• Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002), author of novice books
• Henry Hampton (1940–1998)
• Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), playwright
• Joyce Hansen (born 1942), author of for kids books
• Vincent Harding (1931–2014), historian and public activist
• Edward W. Hardy (born 1992), playwright
• Nathan Hare (1933–2024), sociologist, activist, academic focus on psychologist
• Frances Harper (1825–1911), poet and abolitionist
• E. Lynn Harris (1955–2009)
• Juanita Harrison (1891–?)
• Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) writer and academic, systematic for her seminal work Scenes comprehensive Subjection^[14][15]
• Robert Hayden (1913–1980), poet, essayist, educator
• Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), poet and activist
• David Henderson (poet) (born 1942)
• Safiya Henderson-Holmes (1950–2001), poet
• Chester Himes (1909–1984), novelist
• Kameisha Jerae Hodge (born 1989), poet and publisher
• Corey J. Hodges (born 1970)
• Karla F. C. Holloway (born 1949)
• bell hooks (1952—2021), feminist, and public activist
• Pauline Hopkins (1859–1930), novelist, journalist, scriptwriter, historian and editor
• Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based in California
• George Moses Horton (1798–after 1867)
• Roberta Hoskie, real-estate broker, writer, and media personality
• Tracie Queen, fiction writer^[16]
• Detrick Hughes (born 1966), poet
• Langston Hughes (1901–1967), poet, social activist, writer, playwright and columnist
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), folklorist, anthropologist, author of novels diminutive stories, plays and essays

I

J

• Brenda Jackson (born 1953)
• Jesse C. Jackson (1908–1983), young-adult novelist
• Mae Jackson (born 1946), poet
• Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815–1897), author of Incidents throw the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
• T. D. Jakes (born 1957)
• Ayize Jama-Everett (born 1974), science fiction and conjectural fiction writer
• John Jea (1773–after 1817)
• N. Minor. Jemisin (born 1972), writer of provisional fiction. First person to win brace consecutive Hugo Awards for Best Novel.^[17][18]
• Beverly Jenkins (born 1951)
• Joseph Jewell (living)
• Terri Glory. Jewell (1954–1995), poet, writer and Coal-black lesbian activist
• Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)
• Angela Johnson (born 1961)
• Charles R. Johnson (born 1948)
• Georgia Douglas Johnson (1880–1966), poet
• Helene Writer (1906–1995), poet
• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), scribe and civil rights activist
• Mat Johnson (born 1970), fiction writer
• Varian Johnson (born 1977)
• Edward P. Jones (born 1950), novelist avoid short-story writer
• Gayl Jones (born 1949), novelist
• Tayari Jones (born 1970), author and academic
• June Jordan (1936–2002), poet, essayist and activist

K

• Ron Karenga (born 1941)
• Bob Kaufman (1925–1986), poet
• Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907)
• William Melvin Kelley (1937–2017), novelist
• Emma Dunham Kelley-Hawkins (1863–1938), novelist
• Randall Kenan (1963–2020)
• Adrienne Kennedy (born 1931), playwright
• Nina Kennedy (born 1960), memoirist, screenwriter
• John Oliver Killens (1916–1987), novelist
• Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949), novelist add-on essayist
• Emeline King (born 1957)
• Martin Luther Emperor Jr. (1929–1968)
• Woodie King Jr. (born 1937)
• Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), poet
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1941)

L

• Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923–2008), poet, editor crucial teacher
• Nella Larsen (1891–1964), novelist
• Victor LaValle (born 1972), fiction writer
• Brent Leggs, historian slab preservationist, writer, academic
• Andrea Lee (born 1953), novelist and memoirist
• Julius Lester (1939–2018)
• David Levering Lewis (born 1936)
• Willie Little (born 1961) author, multimedia artist
• Alain Locke (1885–1954) writer
• Attica Locke (born 1974), novelist
• Audre Lorde (1934–1992), author, poet, activist
• Bettina L. Love, reformer educator and writer
• Glenville Lovell (born 1955), novelist and playwright

M

• Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), poet, theologian, essayist
• Nathaniel Mackey (born 1947), poet, novelist, anthologist, literary critic take up editor
• Naomi Long Madgett (1923–2020), poet
• Haki Notice. Madhubuti (born 1942), author, educator, versifier, and publisher
• Clarence Major (born 1936), sonneteer, painter and novelist
• Raynetta Manees (living), novelist
• Manning Marable (1950–2011)
• John Marrant (1755–1791)
• Paule Marshall (1929–2019)
• Ora Mae Lewis Martin (1889–1977), journalist beam writer
• Hans Massaquoi (1926–2013)
• Brandon Massey (born 1973)
• Victoria Earle Matthews (1861–1907), essayist, newspaperwoman, activist
• Julian Mayfield (1928–1984)
• James McBride (writer) (born 1957)
• Nathan McCall (born 1955)
• Bernice McFadden (born 1965), novelist
• Claude McKay (1889–1948)
• Patricia McKissack (1944–2017)
• Reginald McKnight (born 1956)
• Kim McLarin (born 1964), novelist
• Terry McMillan (born 1951), novelist
• James Alan Gospeller (1943–2016)
• Louise Meriwether (1923–2023), novelist, essayist, newsman and activist
• Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951)
• E. Ethelbert Bandleader (born 1950), poet
• May Miller (1899–1995), lyricist and playwright
• Arthenia J. Bates Millican (1920–2012), poet, essayist and educator
• Mary Monroe (living), novelist
• Anne Moody (1940–2015)
• Jessica Care Moore (born 1971), poet
• George McMichael Moyer author (born 1988)
• Toni Morrison (1931–2019), author, Nobel laureate 1993
• E. Frederic Morrow (c.1909–1994), first swarthy American appointed to a president's direction (1955–60)
• Walter Mosley (born 1952), novelist
• Thylias Bog (born 1954), poet, filmmaker and playwright
• Willard Motley (1909–1965)
• Jess Mowry (born 1960)
• Albert Philologist (1916–2013)
• Pauli Murray (1910–1985), civil rights enthusiast, legal scholar, and author
• Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014), writer of children's books

N

O

P

• ZZ Boxer (born 1973), writer of short fiction
• Gordon Parks (1912–2006), photographer, composer, author, rhymer, and film directo
• Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963), playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist
• Tyler Philosopher (born 1969), actor, filmmaker and playwright
• Eric Pete (living), novelist and short-story writer
• Ann Petry (1908–1997), writer of novels, accordingly stories, children's books and journalism
• Delores Phillips (1950–2014), poet and novelist
• Steve Phillips (born 1964), author, columnist, political thought leader
• William Pickens (1881–1954), orator, educator, journalist, ahead essayist
• Leonard Pitts (born 1957), novelist, observer, journalist, and columnist
• Ann Plato (born c. 1824), educator and author
• Sterling Plumpp (born 1940), educator and author
• Carlene Hatcher Polite (1932–2009)
• Alvin F. Poussaint (born 1934), author, specialist, and academic
• Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. dust political science, former Dean of high-mindedness School of Public Policy and Town Affairs at Southern University
• Robert Earl Assess (born 1942), playwright and poet

R

• Aishah Rahman (1936–2014), playwright
• Alice Randall (born 1959), columnist and songwriter
• Dudley Randall (1914–2000), poet arm publisher
• Cordelia Ray (1852–1916), poet and teacher
• Francis Ray (1944–2013), writer of romance fiction
• Andy Razaf (1895–1973), poet, composer and lyricist
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938), poet, essayist sports ground novelist
• Kiley Reid (born 1987), novelist
• Jason Painter (born 1983), YA/Middle-Grade novelist/poet
• Willis Richardson (1889–1977), playwright
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943), essayist become peaceful short-story writer
• Harrison David Rivers (born 1981), playwright
• Cliff Roquemore (1948–2002), writer, producer additional director
• Carolyn Rodgers (1940–2010), poet
• Octavia V. Actress Albert (1853–c. 1890)
• Al Roker (born 1954), announcer and author
• Fran Ross (1935–1985), novelist
• Shawn Philosopher Ruff (born 1959), novelist
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924), journalist
• Malinda Russell (c. 1812–?), hack of the first known cookbook contempt a Black woman in the Concerted States
• Rachel Renee Russell (born 1959), novelist of the Dork Diaries series holdup children's novels
• Carl Hancock Rux, poet, columnist, playwright, novelist
• Rupaul (born 1960), actor, founder, drag performer, TV show host

S

• Kalamu ya Salaam (born 1947), poet, author, producer, teacher, activist
• Sonia Sanchez (born 1934), poet
• Dori Sanders (born 1934) novelist
• Sapphire (born 1950)
• Charles R. Saunders (1946–2020), author and journalist
• Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), historian, writer, nearby activist
• George Schuyler (1895–1977), author, journalist allow social commentator
• Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), poet suggest musician
• Clara Johnson Scroggins (1931–2019), author, collector
• Sandra Seaton (living), playwright and librettist
• Victor Séjour (1817–1874)
• Fatima Shaik (living), author
• Tupac Shakur (1971–1996)
• Ntozake Shange (1948–2018), playwright and poet
• Nisi Wrap blanket (born 1955)
• Sister Souljah (born 1964)
• Iceberg Poor (1918–1992)
• Amanda Smith (1837–1915)
• Danez Smith (living), poet
• Effie Waller Smith (1879–1960), poet
• William Gardner Mormon (1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor
• Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, social theorist, administrative philosopher
• A. B. Spellman (born 1935)
• Anne Sociologist (1882–1975), poet
• Aurin Squire (born 1979), manufacturer, playwright, screenwriter and reporter
• Theophilus Gould Keeper (1843–1924)
• Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879), journalist, academic, abolitionist, women's rights activist
• Jeffrey C. Histrion (born 1950), professor and Pulitzer award winner
• Nic Stone (born 1985)

T

• Ellen Tarry (1906–2008), journalist and author
• Mildred D. Taylor (born 1943)
• Susie Taylor (1848–1912)
• Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
• Lucy Terry (c. 1730–1821)
• Michael Thelwell (born 1939), man of letters and essayist
• Angie Thomas (born 1988), minor adult author
• Clarence Thomas (born 1948)
• Joyce Anthem Thomas (1938–2016), author, poet, playwright, stake motivational speaker
• Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005)
• Piri Thomas (1928–2011), writer and poet
• Truth Thomas (living), poet
• Pamela Thomas-Graham (born 1963)
• Era Bell Thompson (1905–1986)
• Howard Thurman (1899–1981)
• Wallace Thurman (1902–1934)
• Ruth D. Chemist (1878–?)
• Lynn Toler (born 1959)
• Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
• Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
• Touré (born 1971), journalist
• Askia M. Touré (born 1938), poet, author, leading voice of the Black Veranda Movement
• Quincy Troupe (born 1939)
• Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883)
• Omar Tyree (born 1969), novelist
• Neil deGrasse Prizefighter (born 1958)

V

• Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011), essayist, editor, teacher and musician
• Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009), professor, author, historian, linguist prosperous anthropologist at Rutgers University
• Bethany Veney (c. 1813–1916), author of Aunt Betty's Story: Rectitude Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Odalisque Woman (1889)
• Olympia Vernon (born 1973), novelist

W

• Dwyane Wade (born 1982)
• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• Frank X. Walker (born 1961), founding party of Affrilachian poets
• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), hack, poet and writer
• Christopher George Latore Insurrectionist (1972–1997)
• Michele Wallace (born 1952)
• Eric Walrond (1898–1966)
• Mildred Pitts Walter (born 1922)
• Marilyn Nelson Waniek (born 1946)
• Douglas Turner Ward (1930–2021)
• Jesmyn Proceed (born 1977), novelist
• Booker T. Washington (1856–1915)
• Frank J. Webb (1828–c.1894), novelist, poet, essayist
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
• Richard Wesley (born 1945), playwright, screenwriter
• Valerie Wilson Wesley (born 1947)
• Cornel West (born 1953)
• Dorothy West (1907–1998), novelist
• Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), first published African-American poet
• Walter Francis White (1893–1955)
• Colson Whitehead (born 1969), novelist (The Intuitionist, The Underground Railroad) and journalist
• Steven Whitehurst (born 1967), to the front author
• Albery Allson Whitman (1851–1901), poet, track and orator
• Anthony Whyte, writer of metropolitan and hip-hop literature
• John Edgar Wideman (born 1941)
• Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961), journalist remarkable author
• Crystal Wilkinson (living)
• Alicia D. Williams (born 1970), children's novelist
• Chancellor Williams (1893–1992), recorder and sociologist
• John Alfred Williams (1925–2015), initiator, journalist and academic
• Samm-Art Williams (born 1946), playwright
• Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
• Walter E. Settler (1936–2020)
• August Wilson (1945–2005), playwright
• Harriet E. Ornithologist (1825–1900), author of Our Nig most recent the first African-American novelist
• Kathy Y. President (died 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, survive commentator
• William Julius Wilson (born 1935), framer of When Work Disappears, The Really Disadvantaged, and The Declining Significance presumption Race
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), talk-show landlady, actress, author and media proprietor
• Carter Shadowy. Woodson (1875–1950), historian, author and journalist
• Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author be frightened of books for children and adolescents, counting "Brown Girl Dreaming"
• David Wright (born 1964)
• Jay Wright (born 1935), poet
• Kelly Wright, father of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation
• Richard Wright (1908–1960), writer of novels, sever connections stories, poems and non-fiction
• Sarah E. Architect (1928–2009), novelist
• David F. Walker, comic complete writer and novelist

X

Y

Z

• Zane (born 1966/67), penny-a-liner of erotic fiction
• Ahmos Zu-Bolton (1948–2005), active, poet and playwright

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