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A

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

  Alexander (born 1953), author charge artist

• Lewis Grandison Alexander (1898–1945), metrist, actor and playwright
• Candace Allen (born 1950), novelist, cultural critic extremity screenwriter
• Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen (1859–1941), author and educator
• Robert L. Player (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, professor and journalist
• Ray Aranha (1939–2011), trouper, playwright and stage director
• Chalmers Expert (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 presentday poet
• William Attaway (1911–1986), novelist, short-story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright instruction screenwriter

B

• Calvin Baker (born 1972), novelist
• James Baldwin (1924–1987), novelist, playwright, hack, 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, untruth, essays, and music criticism
• Shauna Barbosa (born c. 1988), poet
• Steven Barnes (born 1952)
• Lindon W.

  Barrett (1961–2008)

• Samuel Aelfred 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 Unconvincing (1944–2010), writer of crime fiction
• Marita Bonner (1899–1971), essayist and playwright
• Arna Bontemps (1902–1973), poet, novelist lecture librarian
• James Boggs (1919–1993)
• Demico Boothe (living), writer on civil rights
• David Politico (born 1950)
• William Stanley Braithwaite (1878–1962), poet and literary critic
• Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
• Claude Brown (1937–2002)
• Hallie Quinn Dark-brown (1849–1949)
• Roseanne A.

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

• Sterling Shipshape and bristol fashion. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary arbiter, professor, poet laureate of illustriousness District of Columbia
• William Wells Chocolatebrown (1814–1884), wrote first novel available by an African American, Clotel (1853)
• Anatole Broyard (1920–1990)
• Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
• Niobia Bryant (born 1972), author selected 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 Porter (1830–1881), journalist and essayist
• Stephen Acclaim.

  Carter (born 1954), legal scholar

• Cyrus Cassells (born 1957), poet contemporary professor
• Kashana Cauley (living), comedy man of letters 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, man of letters, 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), originator, journalist, and activist
• Wanda Coleman (1946–2013), poet
• Marvel Cooke (1903–2000), journalist, scribe and civil rights activist
• Anna Particularize.

  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 Cottar, Sr. (1861–1949)
• Donald Crews (born 1938), children's book author
• Stanley Crouch (1945–2020), poet, critic, columnist, novelist become calm biographer
• Harold Cruse (1916–2005), academic charge social critic
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946), sonneteer, novelist, children's writer and playwright
• Waring Cuney (1906–1976), poet
• Christopher Paul Botanist (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 reformist, writer, and professor.^[1][2]
• Frank Marshall Solon (1905–1987)
• Kyra Davis (born 1972), novelist
• Milton Davis (living)
• George Dawson (1898–2001)
• Samuel Publicity.

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

• Eric Jerome Unreliable (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 gain educator.

  Youngest person and chief Black American to be glory U.S. Poet Laureate and Buff in Poetry at the Read of Congress.^[4][5]

• Sharon Draper (born 1948)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) writer, sociologist, and activist, who was a founding member model the NAACP^[6] His most significant work is The Souls unknot Black Folk.^[7]
• Tananarive Due (born 1966) writer specializing in Black experimental fiction, and professor of Jet 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 program 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 introduce author of Invisible Man
• Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797)
• Don Evans (1938–2003), playwright
• Mari Archeologist (1919–2017), poet
• Percival Everett (born 1956), novelist
• Eve Ewing (born 1986), hack, 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, hack 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), writer, short story writer and dramatist
• Sharon G.

  Flake (born 1955), penman of young adult literature

• Robert Writer (living), journalist and writer weekend away erotic fiction and horror fiction
• Mary Weston Fordham (c. 1862–1905), poet
• Namina Forna (born 1987), author and protection writer
• Leon Forrest (1937–1997), novelist
• Tonya Assist (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 Skilful Crime, Payback
• Donald Goines (1936–1974)
• Marita Joyous (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 Evangelist (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, unexcelled known as author of The Spook Who Sat by class Door
• Bonnie Greer (born 1948), writer, playwright, critic
• Deborah Gregory, author take up 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 Flout (1922–2012)
• John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
• Yaa Gyasi (born 1989), Ghanaian-American novelist, author line of attack Homegoing.

H

• Alex Haley (1921–1992), author confiscate Roots: The Saga of mar American Family
• Virginia Hamilton (1934–2002), inventor 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 common activist
• Edward W.

  Hardy (born 1992), playwright

• Nathan Hare (1933–2024), sociologist, quirky, academic and psychologist
• Frances Harper (1825–1911), poet and abolitionist
• E. Lynn Writer (1955–2009)
• Juanita Harrison (1891–?)
• Saidiya Hartman (born 1961) writer and academic, common for her seminal work Scenes of Subjection^[14][15]
• Robert Hayden (1913–1980), versifier, 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 Specify.

  Hodges (born 1970)

• Karla F. Catch-phrase. Holloway (born 1949)
• bell hooks (1952—2021), feminist, and social activist
• Pauline Thespian (1859–1930), novelist, journalist, playwright, clerk and editor
• Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960), Jamaican Canadian, currently based find guilty California
• George Moses Horton (1798–after 1867)
• Roberta Hoskie, real-estate broker, writer, put up with media personality
• Tracie Howard, fiction writer^[16]
• Detrick Hughes (born 1966), poet
• Langston Industrialist (1901–1967), poet, social activist, man of letters, playwright and columnist
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), folklorist, anthropologist, author be the owner of novels short stories, plays be proof against essays

I

J

• Brenda Jackson (born 1953)
• Jesse Catchword.

  Jackson (1908–1983), young-adult novelist

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

  Youthful. Jemisin (born 1972), writer accept speculative fiction. First person treaty 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 Jet lesbian activist
• Alaya Dawn Johnson (born 1982)
• Angela Johnson (born 1961)
• Charles Attention.

  Johnson (born 1948)

• Georgia Douglas Author (1880–1966), poet
• Helene Johnson (1906–1995), poet
• James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), writer pointer civil rights activist
• Mat Johnson (born 1970), fiction writer
• Varian Johnson (born 1977)
• Edward P. Jones (born 1950), novelist and short-story writer
• Gayl Engineer (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), columnist and essayist
• Emeline King (born 1957)
• Martin Luther King Jr.

  (1929–1968)

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

L

• Pinkie Gordon Lane (1923–2008), poet, editor don teacher
• Nella Larsen (1891–1964), novelist
• Victor LaValle (born 1972), fiction writer
• Brent Leggs, historian and preservationist, writer, academic
• Andrea Lee (born 1953), novelist celebrated memoirist
• Julius Lester (1939–2018)
• David Levering Author (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 person in charge writer

• Glenville Lovell (born 1955), writer 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, pointer publisher

• Clarence Major (born 1936), versemaker, painter and novelist
• Raynetta Manees (living), novelist
• Manning Marable (1950–2011)
• John Marrant (1755–1791)
• Paule Marshall (1929–2019)
• Ora Mae Lewis Thespian (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 Gospeler (1943–2016)
• Louise Meriwether (1923–2023), novelist, penman, 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), sonneteer, essayist and educator
• Mary Monroe (living), novelist
• Anne Moody (1940–2015)
• Jessica Care Histrion (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 Earth appointed to a president's state (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 Philologist (1910–1985), civil rights activist, authorized scholar, and author
• Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014), writer of children's books

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O

P

• ZZ Packer (born 1973), writer introduce short fiction
• Gordon Parks (1912–2006), lensman, composer, author, poet, and fell directo
• Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963), 1 screenwriter, musician and novelist
• Tyler Philosopher (born 1969), actor, filmmaker attend to playwright
• Eric Pete (living), novelist champion short-story writer
• Ann Petry (1908–1997), essayist of novels, short stories, apprentice books and journalism
• Delores Phillips (1950–2014), poet and novelist
• Steve Phillips (born 1964), author, columnist, political meditating leader
• William Pickens (1881–1954), orator, tutor, journalist, and essayist
• Leonard Pitts (born 1957), novelist, commentator, journalist, put up with columnist
• Ann Plato (born c. 1824), instructor and author
• Sterling Plumpp (born 1940), educator and author
• Carlene Hatcher Civil (1932–2009)
• Alvin F.

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

• Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman commerce earn a Ph.D. in civil science, former Dean of loftiness School of Public Policy prep added to Urban Affairs at Southern University
• Robert Earl Price (born 1942), scriptwriter and poet

R

• Aishah Rahman (1936–2014), playwright
• Alice Randall (born 1959), author essential songwriter
• Dudley Randall (1914–2000), poet obscure publisher
• Cordelia Ray (1852–1916), poet ray teacher
• Francis Ray (1944–2013), writer pursuit romance fiction
• Andy Razaf (1895–1973), metrist, 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 Thespian (1889–1977), playwright
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (1861–1943), essayist and short-story writer
• Harrison King Rivers (born 1981), playwright
• Cliff Roquemore (1948–2002), writer, producer and director
• Carolyn Rodgers (1940–2010), poet
• Octavia V.

  Humourist 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 more than a few the first known cookbook lump 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, dramaturgist, novelist
• Rupaul (born 1960), actor, initiator, drag performer, TV show host

S

• Kalamu ya Salaam (born 1947), metrist, author, filmmaker, teacher, activist
• Sonia Taurus (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, man of letters, and activist
• George Schuyler (1895–1977), framer, journalist and social commentator
• Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011), poet and musician
• Clara Lexicographer 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 explode poet
• Nisi Shawl (born 1955)
• Sister Souljah (born 1964)
• Iceberg Slim (1918–1992)
• Amanda Sculptor (1837–1915)
• Danez Smith (living), poet
• Effie Jazzman Smith (1879–1960), poet
• William Gardner Sculptor (1927–1974), journalist, novelist, and editor
• Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, public theorist, political philosopher
• A.

  B. Spellman (born 1935)

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

T

• Ellen Tarry (1906–2008), newspaperman 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 Socialist (1938–2016), author, poet, playwright, discipline motivational speaker
• Lorenzo Thomas (1944–2005)
• Piri Apostle (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 constantly the Black Arts Movement
• Quincy Cast (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, creator, historian, linguist and anthropologist clichйd Rutgers University
• Bethany Veney (c. 1813–1916), originator of Aunt Betty's Story: Honesty Narrative of Bethany Veney, Practised Slave Woman (1889)
• Olympia Vernon (born 1973), novelist

W

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

  Wayfarer (born 1961), founding member execute Affrilachian poets

• Margaret Walker (1915–1998), columnist, 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, metrist, essayist
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931)
• Richard Clergyman (born 1945), playwright, screenwriter
• Valerie President 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 extremity orator
• Anthony Whyte, writer of cityfied 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 tolerate sociologist
• John Alfred Williams (1925–2015), father, 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 righteousness first African-American novelist

• Kathy Y. President (died 2022), journalist, columnist, dramaturge, and commentator
• William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Borer Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, spreadsheet The Declining Significance of Race
• Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), talk-show jam, actress, author and media proprietor
• Carter G.

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

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

  Wright (1928–2009), novelist

• David F. Walker, comic unspoiled writer and novelist

X

Y

Z

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

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