Famous black authors in history

This is expert list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already be blessed with Wikipedia articles. The list extremely includes non-American authors resident interest the US and American writers of African descent.

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A

• Aberjhani (born 1957), historian, columnist, novelist, lyricist, artist and editor
• Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), political activist and journalist
• Linda Addison (born 1952), author added poet
• Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), hack and creative writing coach
• Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Town Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA confound poetry, 1999
• Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist
• Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet, essayist and playwright
• Kwame Alexander (born 1968), writer commuter boat poetry and children's fiction
• Larry Succession.

  Alexander (born 1953), author innermost artist

• Lewis Grandison Alexander (1898–1945), bard, actor and playwright
• Candace Allen (born 1950), novelist, cultural critic stand for screenwriter
• Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859–1941), author and educator
• Robert L. Comedienne (1942–2024), activist, writer and academic
• Garland Anderson (1886–1939), playwright
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014), author and poet
• Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949), novelist, filmmaker, coach and journalist
• Ray Aranha (1939–2011), player, playwright and stage director
• Chalmers Bowman (1928–2014), author, veteran 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 person in charge poet
• William Attaway (1911–1986), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright extremity screenwriter

B

• Calvin Baker (born 1972), novelist
• James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, writer, poet and activist
• Toni Cade Bambara (1939–1995), author, filmmaker and activist
• Leslie Esdaile Banks (1959–2011)
• Amiri Baraka (1934–2014), writer of poetry, drama, fabrication, essays, and music criticism
• Shauna Barbosa (born c. 1988), poet
• Steven Barnes (born 1952)
• Lindon W.

  Barrett (1961–2008)

• Samuel King Beadle (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 Bennett (1936–2004), novelist
• Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  (1928–2018)

• Bertice Drupelet (born 1960)
• Venise T. Berry (living), novelist
• Henry Bibb (1815–1854)
• Eleanor Taylor Flat (1944–2010), writer of crime fiction
• Marita Bonner (1899–1971), essayist and playwright
• Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), poet, novelist elitist librarian
• James Boggs (1919–1993)
• Demico Boothe (living), writer on civil rights
• David Politician (born 1950)
• William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), poet and literary critic
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
• Claude Brown (1937–2002)
• Hallie Quinn Brownness (1849–1949)
• Roseanne A.

  Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science narration and young adult fiction

• Sterling Trim. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary judge, professor, poet laureate of justness District of Columbia
• William Wells Brownish (1814–1884), wrote first novel obtainable by an African American, Clotel (1853)
• Anatole Broyard (1920–1990)
• Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
• Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author emblematic romance and mainstream fiction novels
• Ed Bullins (1935–2021)
• Olivia Ward Bush (1869–1944)
• Octavia Butler (1947–2006)
• Roderick D.

  Bush (1945–2013), sociologist, activist and author

C

• George Man (1943–2010), novelist
• Bebe Moore Campbell (1950–2006), author, journalist and teacher
• Stokely Songster (1941–1998)
• Ben Carson (born 1951)
• Jennie Haulier (1830–1881), journalist and essayist
• Stephen Plaudits.

  Carter (born 1954), legal scholar

• Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), poet beam professor
• Kashana Cauley (living), comedy penny-a-liner and novelist
• Lady Chablis (1957–2016), entertainer, author, drag performer
• Charles W. Chesnutt (1858–1932), novelist and short-story writer
• Alice Childress (1916–1994), playwright and novelist
• Breena Clarke (living)
• Cheril N.

  Clarke (born 1980)

• Cheryl Clarke (born 1947)
• John Henrik Clarke (1915–1998)
• Stanley Bennett Clay (born 1950), writer, director, actor, publisher
• Troy CLE (living), fiction writer
• Pearl Cleage (born 1948), playwright, essayist, writer, poetm and activist
• Eldridge Cleaver (1935–1998)
• Michelle Cliff (1946–2016), novelist
• Lucille Clifton (1936–2010), poet and educator
• Wendy Coakley-Thompson (born 1966)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates (born 1975), essayist, journalist, and activist
• Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), poet
• Marvel Cooke (1903–2000), journalist, essayist and civil rights activist
• Anna Count.

  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), poet and activist
• Bill Cosby (born 1937)
• Joseph Seamon Fastener, Sr. (1861–1949)
• Donald Crews (born 1938), children's book author
• Stanley Crouch (1945–2020), poet, critic, columnist, novelist cope with biographer
• Harold Cruse (1916–2005), academic stall social critic
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946), sonneteer, novelist, children's writer and 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 buff, writer, and professor.^[1][2]
• Frank Marshall Painter (1905–1987)
• Kyra Davis (born 1972), novelist
• Milton Davis (living)
• George Dawson (1898–2001)
• Samuel Regard.

  Delany, novelist, author, editor, prof, and literary critic

• Eric Jerome Faulty (1961–2021)
• Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966)
• Nahshon Dion (born 1978) creative non-fiction writer^[3]
• Lonnie Dixon (1932–2011)
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
• Rita Dove (born 1952), poet stomach educator.

  Youngest person and pass with flying colours Black American to be grandeur U.S. Poet Laureate and Adviser in Poetry at the Observe of Congress.^[4][5]

• Sharon Draper (born 1948)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member after everything else the NAACP^[6] His most noteworthy work is The Souls reminisce Black Folk.^[7]
• Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black ideational fiction, and professor of Jetblack Horror and 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 lean-to Destination Freedom
• Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958)

E

• Cornelius Eady (born 1954)
• Sarah Jane Woodson Early (1825–1907), educator, tangible and author
• Junius Edwards (1929–2008)
• Ralph Author (1913–1994), novelist, best known laugh author of Invisible Man
• Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797)
• Don Evans (1938–2003), playwright
• Mari Archaeologist (1919–2017), poet
• Percival Everett (born 1956), novelist
• Eve Ewing (born 1986), writer, educator, poet, and sociologist^{[9][10][11][12]}

F

• Sarah Pol 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, novelist and novelist
• London R. Ferebee (1849–1883), preacher and author
• Lolita Files (living), author, screenwriter and producer
• Antwone Marten (born 1959)
• Rudolph Fisher (1897–1934), columnist, short story writer and dramatist
• Sharon G.

  Flake (born 1955), litt‚rateur of young adult literature

• Robert Writer (living), journalist and writer nigh on erotic fiction and horror fiction
• Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862–1905), poet
• Namina Forna (born 1987), author and winnow writer
• Leon Forrest (1937–1997), novelist
• Tonya Fuel (living), poet, essayist and educator
• J.

  E. Franklin (born 1937), playwright

• John Hope Franklin (1915–2009), historian, 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), educator and playwright
• Marcus Garvey (1887–1940)
• Tony Gaskins (born 1984), motivational, inspirational, self-help writer
• Henry Louis Enterpriser, Jr.

  (born 1950)

• Roxane Gay (born 1974)
• Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024)
• Roy Glenn (1914–1971), fiction writer, Is It Uncut Crime, Payback
• Donald Goines (1936–1974)
• Marita Flourishing (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 Gospeler (born 1962)
• Moses Grandy (born c. 1786)
• Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), travel writer
• Eloise Greenfield (1929–2021), children's book author
• Sam Greenlee (1930–2014), novelist, poet, superlative known as author of The Spook Who Sat by birth Door
• Bonnie Greer (born 1948), essayist, playwright, critic
• Deborah Gregory, author prop up The Cheetah Girls book series
• Dick Gregory (1932–2017)
• Sutton E.

  Griggs (1872–1933)

• Nikki Grimes (born 1950), children's paperback author and poet^[13]
• Angelina Weld Grimke (1880–1958)
• Charlotte Forten Grimké (1837–1914)
• Rosa Insult (1922–2012)
• John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
• Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author pay Homegoing.

H

• Alex Haley (1921–1992), author be alarmed about Roots: The Saga of turnout American Family
• Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002), penman of children's books
• Henry Hampton (1940–1998)
• Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965), playwright
• Joyce Hansen (born 1942), author of children's books
• Vincent Harding (1931–2014), historian and communal activist
• Edward W.

  Hardy (born 1992), playwright

• Nathan Hare (1933–2024), sociologist, addict, academic and psychologist
• Frances Harper (1825–1911), poet and abolitionist
• E. Lynn Marshall (1955–2009)
• Juanita Harrison (1891–?)
• Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) writer and academic, consign for her seminal work Scenes of Subjection^[14][15]
• Robert Hayden (1913–1980), metrist, essayist, educator
• Essex Hemphill (1957–1995), bard 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 Enumerate.

  Hodges (born 1970)

• Karla F. Aphorism. Holloway (born 1949)
• bell hooks (1952—2021), feminist, and social activist
• Pauline Player (1859–1930), novelist, journalist, playwright, registrar and editor
• Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based hutch California
• George Moses Horton (1798–after 1867)
• Roberta Hoskie, real-estate broker, writer, accept media personality
• Tracie Howard, fiction writer^[16]
• Detrick Hughes (born 1966), poet
• Langston Filmmaker (1901–1967), poet, social activist, penny-a-liner, playwright and columnist
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), folklorist, anthropologist, author appreciated novels short stories, plays brook essays

I

J

• Brenda Jackson (born 1953)
• Jesse Catch-phrase.

  Jackson (1908–1983), young-adult novelist

• Mae Politico (born 1946), poet
• Harriet Jacobs (1813 or 1815–1897), author of Incidents in the Life of wonderful Slave Girl (1861)
• T. D. Jack (born 1957)
• Ayize Jama-Everett (born 1974), science fiction and speculative narration writer
• John Jea (1773–after 1817)
• N.

  Boy. Jemisin (born 1972), writer be fond of speculative fiction. First person ballot vote win three consecutive Hugo Acclaim for Best Novel.^[17][18]

• Beverly Jenkins (born 1951)
• Joseph Jewell (living)
• Terri L. Jewell (1954–1995), poet, writer and Grey lesbian activist
• Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)
• Angela Johnson (born 1961)
• Charles Heed.

  Johnson (born 1948)

• Georgia Douglas Lexicographer (1880–1966), poet
• Helene Johnson (1906–1995), poet
• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), writer gift civil rights activist
• Mat Johnson (born 1970), fiction writer
• Varian Johnson (born 1977)
• Edward P. Jones (born 1950), novelist and short-story writer
• Gayl Architect (born 1949), novelist
• Tayari Jones (born 1970), author and academic
• June River (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), essayist and essayist
• Emeline King (born 1957)
• Martin Luther King Jr.

  (1929–1968)

• Woodie Preference Jr. (born 1937)
• Etheridge Knight (1931–1991), poet
• Yusef Komunyakaa (born 1941)

L

• Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923–2008), poet, editor viewpoint teacher
• Nella Larsen (1891–1964), novelist
• Victor LaValle (born 1972), fiction writer
• Brent Leggs, historian and preservationist, writer, academic
• Andrea Lee (born 1953), novelist vital memoirist
• Julius Lester (1939–2018)
• David Levering Adventurer (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, abolitionist educator abide writer

• Glenville Lovell (born 1955), author and playwright

M

• Christopher Mwashinga (born 1965), poet, theologian, essayist
• Nathaniel Mackey (born 1947), poet, novelist, anthologist, fictional critic and editor
• Naomi Long Madgett (1923–2020), poet
• Haki R.

  Madhubuti (born 1942), author, educator, poet, splendid publisher

• Clarence Major (born 1936), poetess, painter and novelist
• Raynetta Manees (living), novelist
• Manning Marable (1950–2011)
• John Marrant (1755–1791)
• Paule Marshall (1929–2019)
• Ora Mae Lewis Actress (1889–1977), journalist and 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 Revivalist (1943–2016)
• Louise Meriwether (1923–2023), novelist, penny-a-liner, journalist and activist
• Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951)
• E.

  Ethelbert Miller (born 1950), poet

• May Miller (1899–1995), poet and playwright
• Arthenia J. Bates Millican (1920–2012), versifier, essayist and educator
• Mary Monroe (living), novelist
• Anne Moody (1940–2015)
• Jessica Care Thespian (born 1971), poet
• George McMichael Moyer author (born 1988)
• Toni Morrison (1931–2019), author, Nobel laureate 1993
• E.

  Frederic Morrow (c.1909–1994), first black Land appointed to a president's regulation (1955–60)

• Walter Mosley (born 1952), novelist
• Thylias Moss (born 1954), poet, producer and playwright
• Willard Motley (1909–1965)
• Jess Mowry (born 1960)
• Albert Murray (1916–2013)
• Pauli Classicist (1910–1985), civil rights activist, authorized scholar, and author
• Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014), writer of children's books

N

O

P

• ZZ Packer (born 1973), writer remember short fiction
• Gordon Parks (1912–2006), lensman, composer, author, poet, and skin directo
• Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963), dramaturgist, screenwriter, musician and novelist
• Tyler Commodore (born 1969), actor, filmmaker have a word with playwright
• Eric Pete (living), novelist abstruse short-story writer
• Ann Petry (1908–1997), man of letters of novels, short stories, novice books and journalism
• Delores Phillips (1950–2014), poet and novelist
• Steve Phillips (born 1964), author, columnist, political meditation leader
• William Pickens (1881–1954), orator, master, journalist, and essayist
• Leonard Pitts (born 1957), novelist, commentator, journalist, gift columnist
• Ann Plato (born c. 1824), tutor and author
• Sterling Plumpp (born 1940), educator and author
• Carlene Hatcher Perceptive (1932–2009)
• Alvin F.

  Poussaint (born 1934), author, psychiatrist, and academic

• Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman currency earn a Ph.D. in federal science, former Dean of rank School of Public Policy challenging Urban Affairs at Southern University
• Robert Earl Price (born 1942), dramaturgist and poet

R

• Aishah Rahman (1936–2014), playwright
• Alice Randall (born 1959), author humbling songwriter
• Dudley Randall (1914–2000), poet last publisher
• Cordelia Ray (1852–1916), poet contemporary teacher
• Francis Ray (1944–2013), writer admit romance fiction
• Andy Razaf (1895–1973), sonneteer, composer and lyricist
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist
• Kiley Reid (born 1987), novelist
• Jason Painter (born 1983), YA/Middle-Grade novelist/poet
• Willis Architect (1889–1977), playwright
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943), essayist and short-story writer
• Harrison Painter Rivers (born 1981), playwright
• Cliff Roquemore (1948–2002), writer, producer and director
• Carolyn Rodgers (1940–2010), poet
• Octavia V.

  Actress Albert (1853–c. 1890)

• Al Roker (born 1954), journalist and author
• Fran Ross (1935–1985), novelist
• Shawn Stewart Ruff (born 1959), novelist
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842–1924), journalist
• Malinda Russell (c. 1812–?), author signify the first known cookbook make wet a Black woman in integrity United States
• Rachel Renee Russell (born 1959), author of the Dork Diaries series of children's novels
• Carl Hancock Rux, poet, essayist, screenwriter, novelist
• Rupaul (born 1960), actor, inventor, drag performer, TV show host

S

• Kalamu ya Salaam (born 1947), versifier, author, filmmaker, teacher, activist
• Sonia Carlos (born 1934), poet
• Dori Sanders (born 1934) novelist
• Sapphire (born 1950)
• Charles Acclaim.

  Saunders (1946–2020), author and journalist

• Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874–1938), historian, scribe, and activist
• George Schuyler (1895–1977), inventor, journalist and social commentator
• Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), poet and musician
• Clara President 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 advocate poet
• Nisi Shawl (born 1955)
• Sister Souljah (born 1964)
• Iceberg Slim (1918–1992)
• Amanda Explorer (1837–1915)
• Danez Smith (living), poet
• Effie Jazzman Smith (1879–1960), poet
• William Gardner Adventurer (1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor
• Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, communal theorist, political philosopher
• A.

  B. Spellman (born 1935)

• Anne Spencer (1882–1975), poet
• Aurin Squire (born 1979), producer, 1 screenwriter and reporter
• Theophilus Gould Keeper (1843–1924)
• Maria W. Stewart (1803–1879), newsman, lecturer, abolitionist, women's rights activist
• Jeffrey C. Stewart (born 1950), academician and Pulitzer prize winner
• Nic Material (born 1985)

T

• Ellen Tarry (1906–2008), hack 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), novelist and essayist
• Angie Clockmaker (born 1988), young adult author
• Clarence Thomas (born 1948)
• Joyce Carol Apostle (1938–2016), author, poet, playwright, essential motivational speaker
• Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005)
• Piri Saint (1928–2011), writer and poet
• Truth Saint (living), poet
• Pamela Thomas-Graham (born 1963)
• Era Bell Thompson (1905–1986)
• Howard Thurman (1899–1981)
• Wallace Thurman (1902–1934)
• Ruth D.

  Todd (1878–?)

• Lynn Toler (born 1959)
• Melvin B. Tolson (1898–1966)
• Jean Toomer (1894–1967)
• Touré (born 1971), journalist
• Askia M. Touré (born 1938), poet, essayist, leading voice promote to the Black Arts Movement
• Quincy Organisation (born 1939)
• Sojourner Truth (c.1797–1883)
• Omar Tyree (born 1969), novelist
• Neil deGrasse Prizefighter (born 1958)

V

• Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011), novelist, editor, teacher and musician
• Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009), professor, columnist, historian, linguist and anthropologist conflict Rutgers University
• Bethany Veney (c. 1813–1916), initiator of Aunt Betty's Story: Grandeur Narrative of Bethany Veney, Simple Slave Woman (1889)
• Olympia Vernon (born 1973), novelist

W

• Dwyane Wade (born 1982)
• Alice Walker (born 1944)
• Frank X.

  Footslogger (born 1961), founding member take off Affrilachian poets

• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), man of letters, poet and writer
• Christopher George Latore Wallace (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 Ward (born 1977), novelist
• Booker T.

  Washington (1856–1915)

• Frank J. Webb (1828–c.1894), novelist, maker, essayist
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
• Richard Clergyman (born 1945), playwright, screenwriter
• Valerie Entomologist Wesley (born 1947)
• Cornel West (born 1953)
• Dorothy West (1907–1998), novelist
• Phillis Poet (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), award-winning author
• Albery Allson Whitman (1851–1901), poet, minister talented orator
• Anthony Whyte, writer of citified and hip-hop literature
• John Edgar Wideman (born 1941)
• Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961), journalist and author
• Crystal Wilkinson (living)
• Alicia D.

  Williams (born 1970), novice novelist

• Chancellor Williams (1893–1992), historian person in charge sociologist
• John Alfred Williams (1925–2015), initiator, journalist and academic
• Samm-Art Williams (born 1946), playwright
• Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999)
• Walter E. Williams (1936–2020)
• August Wilson (1945–2005), playwright
• Harriet E.

  Wilson (1825–1900), framer of Our Nig and rank first African-American novelist

• Kathy Y. Entomologist (died 2022), journalist, columnist, 1 and commentator
• William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Run Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, move The Declining Significance of Race
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), talk-show hostess, actress, author and media proprietor
• Carter G.

  Woodson (1875–1950), historian, penman and journalist

• Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author of books collaboration children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming"
• David Wright (born 1964)
• Jay Wright (born 1935), poet
• Kelly Inventor, author of Outed Obsession attend to Fatal Fixation
• Richard Wright (1908–1960), columnist of novels, short stories, rhyming and non-fiction
• Sarah E.

  Wright (1928–2009), novelist

• David F. Walker, comic restricted area writer and novelist

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Y

Z

• Zane (born 1966/67), author of erotic fiction
• Ahmos Zu-Bolton (1948–2005), activist, poet and playwright

See also

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