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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
Natalie Baszile's book follows Charley Bordelon, an African American woman and single mother, as she struggles to build a new life amid the complexities in the contemporary South. When she ...
This is a list of books written by black authors that have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list in any ranking or category. The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category. [1]
Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a Black author known for writing “Invisible Man,” the 1953 National Book Award winner and an influential work in American literature.
One of the earliest Black classic books on this list, “The Souls of Black Folk,” is a 1903 collection of essays by Harvard-educated scholar and author W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963).
African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Phillis Wheatley was an enslaved African woman who became the first African American to publish a book of poetry, which was published in 1773. Her collection, was titled Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral.