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Writing and Resistance: The Authors
This site contains biographical information and more for various African
American authors.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~metro/aflit/authors.html
Angelou, Maya
Born in St. Louis, Arkansas. She has written "I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings," "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes," and more.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Maya/maya5.html
Barnes, Steven
Author of "Dream Park," "The Descent of Anansi," "Streetlethal," and more.
http://www.teleport.com/~djuru/
Benson, Angela
She has written "A Family Wedding," "Between the Lines," and more.
http://www.bensonink.com/
Forster, Gwynne
Born in North Carolina. Author of "A Perfect Match," "Obsession," and more.
http://www.infokart.com/gwynneforster/
Harris, Elizabeth Johnson
Born in Augusta, Georgia in 1867. Scanned pages of Harris' original 85 page
memoir are included here.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/harris/
Harris, E. Lynn
Born in Flint, Michigan. Author of "Invisible Life," "Just As I Am," "And
This Too Shall Pass."
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/elynnharris/main.html
Hughes, Langston
Born in Joplin, Missouri. Author of "Not Without Laughter."
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm
Hurston, Zora Neale
Born 1891, died 1960. She wrote stories, novels, anthropological folklore
and an autobiography.
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/hurston/hurston.html
Kitt, Sandra
Sandra Kitt writes romance novels featuring African American characters.
http://www.infokart.com/sandrakitt/
Manees, Raynetta
Born and raised in Detroit. Author of "All for Love."
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9823/index2.html
Morrison, Toni
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in 1931, and raised in Lorain, Ohio. Author of
"The Bluest Eye", and more.
http://www.viconet.com/~ejb/bio.htm
Morrison, Toni
Born February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Author of "The Bluest Eye," "Sula,"
"Song of Solomon," and more.
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/morrison/morrison_toni-bio.html
Morrison, Toni
Born in 1931, in Lorain, Ohio. Author of "The Bluest Eye," "Sula," "Tar Baby," and more.
http://www.boston.com/globe/search/stories/nobel/1993/1993p.html
Petry, Ann
Born in 1908. Her first novel was "The Street."
http://www.ctforum.org/cwhf/petry.htm
Poarch, Candice
African American romance novelist Candice Poarch briefly describes her background.
http://www.erols.com/cpoarch/
Turney, Denise
Born in Dayton, Ohio. She has written the novel "Portia."
http://www.chistell.com/about_denise.htm
Walker, Alice
African-American novelist and poet, born in Eatonton, Georgia. She wrote "In Love & Trouble."
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Walker/walker.htm
Ware, Shirley Gerald
Southern born. She has written "Somebody Too," "The Final Goodbye," and more.
http://members.aol.com/shirgerald/
Wesley, Charles Harris
(1891-1987). He wrote "The Collapse of the Confederacy," "The History of
Sigma Pi Phi," and more.
http://www.artnoir.com/chw.html
Wright, Richard
Born September 4, 1908 in Natchez, Mississippi. He wrote "The Voodoo of
Hell's Half-Acre," "Superstition," and more.
http://www.pbs.org/rwbb/rwtoc.html
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