Popular Fiction

• Briscoe, Connie
• Campbell, Bebe Moore
• McMillan, Terry

• Danticat, Edwidge
• Ellison, Richard
• Gaines, Ernest J.
• Hurston, Zora Neal
• Kincaid, Jamaica
• Morrison, Toni
• Naylor, Gloria
• Walker, Alice
• Williams, John Alfred

Poetry

• Angelou, Maya
• Brooks, Gwendolyn
• Clifton, Lucille
• Derricotte, Toi
• Dove, Rita
• Giovanni, Nikki
• Hughes, Langston

Juvenile Fiction

• Myers, Walter Dean
• Ringgold, Faith

• Davis, Angela Y.
• Gates, Henry Louis

Web Links

• African-American Writers: A Celebration
• Contemporary African-American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
• Coretta Scott King Book Award
• Harlem Renaissance - A Brief Introduction

If there are additional authors or resources you would like to recommend, please email the library.

Other So You Want to Read More recommendations:

Banned Books
Christian Literature
Gay & Lesbian Literature
Contemporary Fiction