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, Sergeant Chester J. Westfield, 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
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (Frances Ellen Watkins)
- 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
- Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. (Wikipedia)
- 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
- Sergeant Chester J. Westfield
- Alberry A. Whitman
- Charles Frederick White