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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,...

In a professional writing career that spans more than twenty years, Marita Golden has distinguished herself as a novelist, essayist, teacher of writing and literary...

Charles Richard Johnson is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and cartoonist. Johnson, whose balance of philosophy and folklore has been praised since the publication...

Of the bevy of African-American novelists that rose to popularity in the late 1990s, perhaps none seemed as natural a storyteller as Lolita Files. Her...

Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe, on February 11, 1937.  In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon...

Pioneering Romance Novelist and Historian Beverly Jenkins, born on February 15, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, is a renowned novelist celebrated for her captivating romance novels...

Sonia Sanchez is an influential figure in the world of literature and activism. Born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama, she...

Amiri Baraka, born Everett LeRoi Jones, was a prominent African-American writer, poet, and playwright. His work was known for its powerful and unapologetic exploration of...

John Edgar Wideman was born in Washington, DC., in 1941. Shortly before his first birthday, his family moved to Homewood, an African-American community in Pittsburgh,...