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The Art of Fiction in the Heart of Dixie: An Anthology of Alabama Writers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986. Philip Beidler, ed. Many Voices, Many Rooms: A New Anthology of Alabama Writers. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. Lynda Brown; et al. (1998). "Antebellum Period, 1830-1860: Literature, Language and Folklore".
Writers from Mobile, Alabama (42 P) Writers from Montgomery, Alabama (37 P) ... Hugo Black; I. M. E. Blandin; Walter Block; James Boggs (activist) Willie Dee Bowles;
Ashley Michelle Jones (born 1990) is an American poet and activist. She is the first Black Poet Laureate of Alabama (2022–2026) and the youngest person to hold this position. [1]
Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist Kathy Y. Wilson (died 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears , The Truly Disadvantaged , and The Declining Significance of Race
Angela Johnson (born June 18, 1961) is an American writer of children's books and poetry, with over 40 books to her credit since beginning her writing career in 1989.Her children's picture books are simple yet poetic stories about African-American families, friendships, and common childhood experiences such as moving.
James Haskins (September 19, 1941 – July 6, 2005) was an American author with more than 100 books for both adults and children. Many of his books highlight the achievements of African Americans and cover the history and culture of Africa and the African American experience.
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...