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Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), author of Our Nig and the first African-American novelist; Kathy Y. Wilson (died 2022), journalist, columnist, playwright, and commentator; William Julius Wilson (born 1935), author of When Work Disappears, The Truly Disadvantaged, and The Declining Significance of Race
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
21st-century African-American women writers (589 P) H. Zora Neale Hurston (2 C, 5 P) J. African-American women journalists (1 C, 210 P) M. African-American women ...
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and writer. [1] She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation.
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. [1]
Phillis Wheatley Peters, also spelled Phyllis and Wheatly (c. 1753 – December 5, 1784) was an American author who is considered the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Born in West Africa , she was kidnapped and subsequently sold into slavery at the age of seven or eight and transported to North America ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century African-American writers. It includes African-American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
African-American women writers (8 C, 276 P) * Black feminist books (3 C, 22 P) Womanist writers (1 C, 10 P) A. ... Pages in category "Literature by African-American ...