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Ishmael Reed, in full Ishmael Scott Reed, (born February 22, 1938, Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.), African American author of poetry, essays, satiric novels, and plays. Reed...

Toni Cade Bambara was an influential American author, educator, and social activist. She was born on March 25, 1939, in New York City, and she...

Paul Beatty is the author of the novels, Tuff, Slumberland and The White Boy Shuffle, and the poetry collections Big Bank Take Little Bank and...

I wrote on everything and everywhere. I remember my uncle catching me writing my name in graffiti on the side of a building. (It was...

Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard College, he started working at the Village Voice, where he...

Jesmyn Ward was born in 1977 in DeLisle, Mississippi. Her mother’s employer paid for her to attend a private school after she was bullied by...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, in full Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, (born September 30, 1975, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.), American essayist, journalist, and writer who often explored contemporary race relations,...