bell hooks
bell hooks (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021) was an African American poet, activist, author and professor.
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was an American author, actress, screenwriter, dancer, poet, civil rights activist and educator best known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and poetic work Phenomenal Woman.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is an American writer well known for her works centered on the Black experience within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Ernest James Gaines
Ernest Gaines, African American author, is best known for his novels A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
Langston Hughes
Author Langston Hughes was also known as the Negro Poet Laurate
Octavia Butler
Octavia E. Butler was a prolific African-American science fiction author.
