Author Profiles: Bios and Full Text Collections
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- Lewis Alexander
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
- Otto Bohanan
- Arna Bontemps
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Benjamin Brawley
- Sterling A. Brown
- Richard Bruce (Bruce Nugent)
- Carrie Williams Clifford
- James D. Corrothers
- Joseph S. Cotter, Sr.
- Joseph Cotter, Jr.
- Countee Cullen
- Clarissa Scott Delany
- Blanche Taylor Dickinson
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Angelina W. Grimke
- Leslie Pinckney Hill
- Frank Horne
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Fenton Johnson
- Charles Bertram Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- John Frederick Matheus
- Claude McKay
- Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Effie Lee Newsome
- Arthur Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg)
- Edward S. Silvera
- Anne Spencer
- Wallace Thurman
- Jean Toomer
- Lucian B. Watkins