African American Authors

General Fiction
Jenoyne Adams
Boice-Terrel Allen
Jeffrey Renard Allen
Preston Allen
Vincent R. Alexandria
Raymond Andrew
Tina McElroy Ansa
Linda Armstrong-Miller
Artiste C. Arthur
Doris Jean Austin
Nicole Bailey-Williams
Michael Baisden
Allen B. Ballard
Nicole Bailey-Williams
Calvin Baker
Toni Cade Bambara
Leslie E. Banks
Theresa Banks
Lloyd W. Barker
Paul Beatty
Venise Berry
Gwendolyn Bennett
O. H. Bennett
Ruthie Bolton
Marie Odette Bonne
Michele Andrea Bowen
Julia Boyd
David Bradley
Connie Briscoe
Cecil Brown
Michelle Andrea Brown
Parry A. Brown
Wesley Brown
Linda McKeever Bullard
Cris Burks
Charlotte Burley
Christopher Burns
Bebe Moore Campbell
Roslyn Carrington
Monica Carter (New Author)
Stephen Carter
Lorene Cary
Patrick Chamoiseau
Maxine Clair
Pearl Cleage
Christina Coleman
Cyrus Colter
J. California Cooper
Sheila Copeland
Steve Corbin
Tsitsi Dangarembga
J. Daniels
Thulani Davis
Virginia DeBerry
William Demby
Eric Jerome Dickey
Tananarive Due
Henry Dumas
Paul Dunbar
Louis Edwards
Brian Egston
Patricia Elam
Peggy Eldridge-Love
Trey Ellis
Buchi Emecheta
Percival Everett
Lolita Files
Robert Fleming
A. R. Flowers
Darnella Ford
Leon Forrest
Sharon Elwell Foster
Albert French
Nelson George
Herman Cromwell Gilbert
Vivian Glover
Marita Golden
Donna Grant
Linda Dominique Grosvenor
Jackie Harris Gulette
Rosa Guy
Helon Habila
Patricia Haley-Brown
Hunter Hayes
Rachel Howzell Hall
Byron Harmon
E. Lynn Harris
Jane Harvard
Scott Haskins
Hunter Hayes
Bessie Head
Nathan Heard
Obery M. Hendricks
Linda Hudson-Smith
Kristin Hunter
Moses Isegawa
Brenda Jackson
Brian Keith Jackson
Edwardo Jackson
Kelvin Christopher James
Norma L. Jarrett
Jenji Jasper
Yolanda Joe
Charles Richard Johnson
Darlene Johnson
Guy Johnson
Mat Johnson
R. M. Johnson
Terrance Johnson
Lorraine Johnson-Coleman
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Edward P. Jones
Gayl Jones
Patricia Jones
Kanko
Norman Kelley
William Melvin Kelley
Randall Kenan
Jamaica Kincaid
Sandra Kitt
Dawn Knight
Dolores Komo
Jake Lamar
Evelyn "SLIM" Lambright
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
Nella Larson
Kristin Hunter Lattany
Andrea Lee
Helen Elaine Lee
Julius Lester
C. Eric Lincoln
Tony Lindsay
Zelda Lockhart
Clarence Major
Marcus Majors
Gloria Mallette
Timmothy B. McCann.
Jacquelin McCord
Bernice L. McFadden
Victor McGlothin
Reginald McKnight
Kim McLarin
Rosalyn McMillan
Terry McMillan
Jill Nelson
Kayla Perrin
James Alan McPherson
Louise Meriwether
Sharon Mitchell
Mary Monroe
Yanier Moore
Joan Morgan
Monique Morris
Mary B. Morrison
Toni Morrison
Marissa Monteith
Albert Murray
Yvonne Grays Nathane
Gloria Naylor
Barbara Neely
Heather Neff
Gaye Newton
Kris Nelscott
Jill Nelson
Han Nolan
Jazz Nolan
Elizabeth Nunez
ZZ Packer
Gwendolyn Parker
Alexs Pate
Phyllis Alesia Perry
Richard Perry
Eric E. Pete
Ann Lane Petry
Robert Deane Pharr
Caryl Phillips
Rebecca Pierce
Gabrielle Pina
Beverly Poitier-Henderson
Linda Raymond
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Patty Rice
Len Riley
C. Kelley Robinson
Dori Sanders
Sophronia Scott
Danzy Senna
Ntozake Shange
Karen V. Siplin
Herbert Simmons
April Sinclair
Andrea Smith
Zadie Smith
Sister Souljah
Camika Spencer
Susan Straigh
Jervey Tervalon
Brenda L. Thomas
Trisha R. Thomas
Delores Thornton
Nichelle Tramble
Dawn Turner Trice
David Troutt
Omar Tyree
Henry Van Dyke
Olympia Vernon
Andrea Walker
Dorothy West
Franklin White
Colson Whitehead
Van Whitfield
John E. Wideman
Dennis A. Williams
Edward Christopher Williams
John A. Williams
Lori Aurelia William
Harriet Wilson
Teri Woods
Al Young
Shay Youngblood,
Zane

Mystery
Ace Adkins
Vincent Alexandria
N. Xavier Arnold
Frankie Y. Bailey
Nikki Baker
Jacqueline Turner Banks
M. C. Beamon
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Patricia Canterbury
Charlotte Carter
Evelyn Coleman
Margaret Cuthbert
Edwidge Danticat
Christopher Darden
Nora DeLoach
Grace F. Edwards
Ardella Garland
Arlene Gause-Jackson
John Gibson
Pamela Thomas Graham
Robert O Greer
Terris McMahan Grimes
Gary Hardwick
Gar Anthony Haywood
Chester Himes
Hugh Holton
Edward James
Tony Lindsay
Lee E. Meadows
Penny Mickelbury
Walter Mosley
Barbara Neely
Marc Olden
Dorothy Phaire
Gary Phillips
Mike Phillips
L. B. Ransom
James Sallis
Lisa Saxton
Judith Smith-Levin
Bre Summers
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Tracey Tillis
Michelle D. Tramble
Blair Walker
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Chassie West
Paula Woods

Childrens & Young Adult
Tonya Bolden
Alice Chldress
Lucille Clifton
Bill Cosby
Sharon M. Draper
Ronald Fair
Virginia Hamilton
Lorraine Hansberry
Julius Lester
Angela Johnson
Fredrick J. McKissack
Patricia McKissack
Stephanie Perry Moore
Jess Mowry
Myles Pinkney
Sandra Pinkney
Connie Porter
Natasha Tarpley
Camille Yarbrough

Cartoonists
Robb Armstrong "Jump Start"
Stephen Bentley "Herb & Jamaal"
Ray Billingsley "Curtis"
Charles Boyce "Compu'Toon"
Barbara Brandon "Where I'm Coming From"
Jerry Craft "Mama's Boyz"
Aaron McGruder "Boondocks"
Morrie Turner "Wee Pals"

Classic
Maya Angelou
William A. Attaway
James Baldwin
Toni Cade Bambara
Samuel Beadle
Lerone Bennet, Jr.
Arna Bontemps
David Bradley
Gwendolyn Brooks
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Frank London Brown
Rosellen Brown
Sterling Brown
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
John Henrik Clarke
Clarence Jr. Cooper
Arthur P. Davis.
John P. Davis
Frederick Douglass
W.E.B. Dubois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ralph Ellison
Jesse Fauset
Rudolph Fisher
Hoyt W. Fuller
Ernest J. Gaines
Donald J. Goines
Alex Haley
Loyle Hairston
Chester Himes
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Harriet Jacobs
Emma Dunham Kelly
William Melvin Kelley
John Oliver Killens
Nella Larson
Audre Lorde
Paule Marshall
Julian Mayfield
Claude McKay
Toni Morrison
Albert Murray
Carl Ruthven Offord
Gordon Parks
Charles Perry
Ann Petry
Ismael Reed
George S. Schuyler
Iceberg Slim
John Caswell Smith
Wallace Thurman
Jean Toomer
Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Alice Walker
David Walker
Margaret Walker
Phillis Wheatley
August Wilson
Harriet E. Wilson
Richard Wright
Frank Yerby

Science Fiction
Kimile Aczon
Linda Addison
Steven Barnes
Levar Burton
Octavia Butler
Maryse Conde
Samuel R. Delaney
Michael Dorne
John M. Faucette, Jr.
Jewelle Gomez
Sandra Gould
Virginia Hamilton
Nalo Hopkinson
Winston Howlett
Pete Kalu
Bill Liggin
Brandon Massey
Jesse Miller
Walter Mosely
George Samuel Schuyler
Colson Whitehead
Billy Dee Williams

Romance
Rochelle Alers
Robin H. Allen
Robyn Amos
Vicki Anderson
Nefferiti Austin
Crystal Barouche
Angela Benson
Bertice Berry
Charlene A. Berry
Elizabeth Atkins Bowman
Magdalene Breaux
A'Lelia Bundles
Anita Bunkley
Loure Bussey
Adrienne Byrd
Viveca Carlysle
Veronica Chambers
Beverly Clark
Ellie Conrad
Francine Craft
Kathleen Cross
Jamise L. Dames
Janice Dennie
Anita D. Diggs
Lyn Emery
Leslie Esdaile
Cheryl Faye
Bette Ford
Gwynn Forster
Carla Fredd
Roberta Gayle
LaFlorya Gauthier
Monique Gilmore
Layle Giusto
Sheila M. Goss
Carment Green
Bettye Griffin
Vanessa Davis Griggs
Geri Guillaume
Gay B. Gun
Shirley Hailstock
Crystal Wilson Harris
Shirley Harrison
T. T. Henderson
Donna Hill
Sonia Icilyn
Brenda Jackson
Monica Jackson
Sheneska Jackson
Beverly Jenkins
Darlene Johnson
Doris Johnson
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Barbara Keaton
Marcia King-Gamble
Sandra Kitt
Anna Larence
Sheila E. Lipsey
Benilde Little
Raynetta Manees
Felicia Mason
Kimberly Matthews
Dianne V. Mayhew
Bella McFarland
Gail McFarland
Michelle McGriff
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Marissa Monteilh
Victoria Christopher Murray
Evelyn Palfrey
Kayla Perrin
Debra Phillips
Candice Poarch
Jacqueline Powell
Tracy Price-Thompson
Francis Ray
Maryann Reid
Adrienne E.Reeves
Mildred Riley
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Rose Rodriquez
Marcella Sanders
Janice Sims
Eboni Snoe
Niqui Stanhope
Simona Taylor
Jacquelin Thomas
Wanda Y. Thomas
Marilyn Tyner
Margie Walker
Chassie West
Amberlina Wicker
Crystal Wilson-Harris
Angela Winters
Courtni Wright

Poets
Linda Addison
Kwame Alexander
Maya Angelou
Jabiri Asim
Amiri Baraka
Lloyd W. Barker
Annie L. Barton
Paul Beatty
Lerone Bennet, Jr.
Tara Betts
Eloise Bibb
Charles Braxton
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jonathan Henderson Brooks
Traci Y. Brooks
Kysha N. Brown
Sterling Brown
Angle S. Bush
Olivia Ward Bush
Malik Canty
L. Teresa Church
Frank B. Coffin
Jamarhl Crawford
Michael Datcher
Rita Dove
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Peggy Eldridge-Love
Chris Evans
Mari Evans
Tonya Marie Evans
Mary Weston Fordham
Nikki Giovanni
Goldie the Poet
Langston Hughes
Adah Isaacs Menken
Alice Ruth Moore
Jessica Care Moore
Mary B. Morrison
Janette Owens
Sonia Sanchez
Ntozake Shange
Effie Waller Smith
John Edgar Tidwell
Vincent Tyler
Frances Ellen Watkins
Richard Wright