Author Ralph Ellison is perhaps best known for his 1952 landmark novel, “Invisible Man.” What some might not know is…
The late Ann Petry holds the distinction of being the first Black woman writer to sell over 1 million copies of…
Langston Hughes was a literary giant who found fame during the rise of Black art and culture known widely as…
Ernest J. Gaines first gained fame with the release of his 1971 novel, “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” which…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black…
NEW YORK (AP) — Colson Whitehead’s brutal narrative of a boys’ reform school, “The Nickel Boys,” and Marlon James’ fantasy…
Walter Dean Myers was a prolific author of young adult literature who won numerous awards for his craft. The Harlem…
John Edgar Wideman is an award-winning author and just the second African-American to be named a Rhodes Scholar to the…
LONDON (AP) — Tayari Jones won the Women’s Prize for fiction on Wednesday with “An American Marriage,” her story of…
Author, scholar and activist bell hooks has emerged as one of the leading feminist figures of her era, and her writing…
The late Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian author who put his nation and the continent of Africa on the literary…
Newark Public Library The name Hughes Allison isn’t widely known but at a time, he was one of the most…
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