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Jacqueline Woodson (born 1963), award-winning author of books for children and adolescents, including "Brown Girl Dreaming" David Wright (born 1964) Jay Wright (born 1935), poet; Kelly Wright, author of Outed Obsession and Fatal Fixation; Richard Wright (1908–1960), writer of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction; Sarah E. Wright, novelist
Self-Portrait in Black and White; Silent Thunder: Breaking Through Cultural, Racial, and Class Barriers in Motorsports; Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry like Christmas; A Song Flung Up to Heaven; Starting Over (autobiography) Surpassing Certainty
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.
The works of these writers span multiple genres, from historical fiction to memoirs to sci-fi. You know what they say: […]
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One of the earliest Black classic books on this list, “The Souls of Black Folk,” is a 1903 collection of essays by Harvard-educated scholar and author W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963).
The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative.. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, [1] is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually ...
Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human. Cole Arthur Riley's newest book is a collection of prayers, letters, poems, meditation questions, breath practices, scriptures ...