Category : The Word – Media

Ralph Ellison, in full Ralph Waldo Ellison, (born March 1, 1914, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.—died April 16, 1994, New York, New York), American writer who...

Invisible Man, a novel by Ralph Ellison, published in 1952. SUMMARY: The narrator of Invisible Man is a nameless young black man who moves in...

Richard Wright, a prominent novelist and short-story writer, was born on September 4, 1908, near Natchez, Mississippi, U.S. He passed away on November 28, 1960,...

Audre Lorde, in full Audre Geraldine Lorde, also called Gamba Adisa or Rey Domini, (born Feb. 18, 1934, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 17, 1992,...

A slave for much of her life, poet Phillis Wheatley (1753? – 1784) was the first published black American author and the second published American...

Jessie Redmon Fauset, married name Jessie Redmon Harris, (born April 27, 1882, Snow Hill, N.J., U.S.—died April 30, 1961, Philadelphia, Pa.), African American novelist, critic,...

Countee Cullen was an American poet, novelist, and playwright, and one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual movement centered...