Category : The Word – Media

The novelist and poet Gayl Jones were born November 23, 1949, in Lexington, Kentucky.  She came from a creative background; her grandmother Amanda Wilson wrote...

Jamaica Kincaid is a prominent Caribbean-American writer known for her powerful and evocative literary works. Born in Antigua, she moved to the United States at...

Gwendolyn Bennett, (born July 8, 1902, Giddings, Texas, U.S.—died May 30, 1981, Reading, Pa.), African-American poet, essayist, short-story writer, and artist who was a vital...

Wallace Henry Thurman, (born Aug. 16, 1902, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.—died Dec. 22, 1934, New York, N.Y.), African-American editor, critic, novelist, and playwright associated...

Dorothy West, (born June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 16, 1998, Boston), American writer who explored the aspirations and conflicts of middle-class African Americans...

Terry McMillan, (born October 18, 1951, Port Huron, Michigan, U.S.), American novelist whose work often portrays feisty, independent black women and their attempts to find...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written and published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, was the most popular 19th-century novel and, after the Bible, was the second-best-selling...

Harriet Beecher Stowe, née Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, (born June 14, 1811, Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.—died July 1, 1896, Hartford, Connecticut), American writer and philanthropist, the author of the novel Uncle Tom’s...

A poet and essayist, Frances Ellen Watkins was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1825.  Orphaned at the age of three, Watkins went to live with...