Asili Celebrates Black Writers from
1711 to the present, Cont'd

The following tables presents a partial listing of Black writers, poets and playwrights (African Americans and those of African descent) who created, shaped and influenced Black literature in the United States and the world from 1711 to the present.

We at Asili recognize that these tables are incomplete. We invite you to send us pictures, birth data and web data of any writer that we have inadvertantly missed. This page will be up for a considerable amount of time and we will make corrections if you point them out to us. Contact the webmaster@asilithejournal.com.

Table 2: To and Through The Harlem Renaissance --

Alain Locke to Samuel W. Allen

Alain Locke
Thomas Montgomery Gregory
Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Claude McKay
Willis Richardson
René Maran
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larson
J. Mason Brewer
Esther Popel
Walter White
Mario de Andrade
Frank A. Collymore
Jean Toomer
Brenda Ray Moryck
William Leo Hansberry
George Samuel Schuyler
Arthur Schomburg
Rudolph Fisher
Luis Pales Matos
Chancellor James Williams
Marita O. Bonner
May Miller
Melvin B. Tolson
C.L.R. James
Gilberto Freyre
Sterling A Brown
Langston Hughes
C. S. Delaney
Nicolas Guillen
Carrie Best
Grace F. Edwards
Dorothy West
Gwendolyn Bennett
Arna Bontemps
William H Johnson
Wallace Thurman
Countee Cullen
Marvel Cooke
Ted Poston
J. Saunders Redding
Helene Johnson
Theodora Boyd
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Alice Dunnigan
Jacques Roumain
Richard Wright
John G. Jackson
Roi Ottley
Joao Rosa
Ann Petry
Chester Himes
Edgar Mittelholzer
Pauli Murray
Kwame Nkrumah
Cyrus Colter
Namba Roy
William Attaway
Ethel L. Payne
Eric Eustace Williams
Gordon Parks
Felix Morriseau-Leroy
Aime Cesaire
Leon Gontrand Damas

Clement Saint-Aude

Victor Stafford Reid

Willard Motley
Jorge Amado
Elson Istepanian
Robert Hayden

John Henrik Clark

Rene Belance
Julia De Burgos
Owen Dodson
Dudley Randall
Margaret Esse Danner
Joseph Zobel
Marie Vieu Chauvet
Ray Durem
Margaret Walker
John Oliver Killens
Harold Cruse
Frank Yerby
Albert Murray
Samuel W. Allen

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A special thanks to the African American Library and Cultural Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the assistance of Pearl Woolridge and Wayne Draper of the special collections section, Asili writers Geoffrey Philp for his input on English speaking Caribbean writers and Max Pierre for his input on Haitian-Creole and Francophone writers. We would also like to acknowledge the hundreds of sites visited to build our tables, especially the following:

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide An Ongoing Online Project © Paul P. Reuben

VG Voices From the Gap

ChickenBones: A Journal

The African American Literature book Club

http://www.africawithin.com

The African American Registry

Modern American Poetry

The History Makers

FemmeNoir

 

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