Author Pages: Bios and Full Text Collections
For some of the major figures below who have not yet been profiled, we are linking to their Wikipedia pages. A few important African American writers presently have no dedicated Wikipedia entries. In summer 2022, noting the omission of Otto Bohanan from Wikiepdia, we worked with a team of editors to create a rudimentary entry based on our own research here. Other significant African American poets who currently have no Wikipedia pages are Charles Frederick White and Edward S. Silvera.
Note: the list below is not a complete account of all authors whose writings may appear on this site. If you're looking for a particular writer or poem, try the search bar located on the black navigation bar at the top of the page. (On a mobile device, click on the 'hamburger' menu, then click search)
- Lewis Grandison Alexander (Lewis Alexander) (Wikipedia)
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
- Otto Bohanan
- James Madison Bell (Wikipedia)
- Eloise A. Bibb (Eloise Bibb Thompson) (Wikipedia)
- Arna Bontemps
- William Stanley Braithwaite
- Benjamin Griffith Brawley (Wikipedia)
- Sterling Allen Brown (Wikipedia)
- Richard Bruce Nugent (Richard Bruce) (Wikipedia)
- James Edwin Campbell (Wikipedia)
- Carrie Williams Clifford
- James D. Corrothers
- Joseph S. Cotter, Sr. (Wikipedia)
- Joseph S. Cotter, Jr. (Wikipedia)
- Countee Cullen
- Daniel Webster Davis (Wikipedia)
- Clarissa Scott Delany
- Blanche Taylor Dickinson
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- T. Thomas Fortune (Timothy Thomas Fortune) (Wikipedia)
- Angelina W. Grimke
- Elliott Blaine Henderson
- Leslie Pinckney Hill
- Frank Horne
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston (Wikipedia)
- Fenton Johnson
- Charles Bertram Johnson
- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson
- Maggie Pogue Johnson
- John Frederick Matheus
- Alain Leroy Locke (Wikipedia)
- Claude McKay
- George Marion McClellan
- Alice Dunbar Nelson (Alice Ruth Moore)
- Effie Lee Newsome (Mary Effie Lee)
- H. Cordelia Ray (Henrietta Cordelia Ray)
- Arthur Alfonso Schomburg (Arturo Schomburg, A.A. Schomburg)
- Edward S. Silvera (No Wikipedia page!)
- Anne Spencer
- Clara Ann Thompson
- Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Wallace Thurman (Wikipedia)
- Jean Toomer
- Lucian B. Watkins
- Alberry A. Whitman
- Charles Frederick White