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 3: Transitioning to and through the Black Arts Movement --Gwendolyn Brooks to Walter Dean Myers

Gwendolyn Brooks
Margaret Burroughs
Yosef Ben Jochannan
Aida Cartagena Portalatin
Nelson Mandela
Robert Beck aka Iceberg Slim
Robert Dean Pharr
Lance Jeffers
Louise Bennett
Peter Henry Abrahams
Ezekiel Mphahlele
Manuel Zapata Olivella
Alice Childress
Amos Tutuola
James A. Emanuel
Theodore Wilson Harris
Gabriel Okara
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Alex Haley
Cyprian Ekwensi
William Demby
E. R. Braithwaite
Mildred Riley
Adam David Miller
Pinkie Gordon Lane
Ousmane Sembene
Jean Goulbourne
Mari Evans
Louise Meriwether
Cheihk Anta Diop
Samuel Selvon
Erma Clanton
Naomi Long Madgett
James Baldwin
Beryl Gilroy
Amilcar Cabral
Samella Lewis
Dennis Brutus
C. Eric Lincoln
Reginald Shepherd
Geoffrey Drayton
Okoro Harold Johnson
Gus Savage
John A. Williams
James Berry
Rosa Cuthbert Guy
Frantz Fanon
Bob Kaufman
Jan Carew
Roy Heath
Malcolm X
William Gardner Smith
John Hearne
Lonne Elder III
René Depestre
Jeanne de Cavally
George Lamming
Harry Belafonte
Martin Wylde Carter
Julian Mayfield
Ted Joans
Camara Laye
Anthony Phelps
Edouard Glissant
Sarah Webster Fabio
Marvin V. Arnett
Maya Angelou
Andrew Salkey
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paule Marshall
Mariama Ba
Derek Walcott
Wesley Brown
James McEachin
Mazisi Kunene
Sam Greenlee
Raymond Patterson
Lorraine Hansberry
Chinua Achebe
Abbey Lincoln
Derrick A Bell
Everard Palmer
Jacob H. Carruthers
Allen B.Ballard
James Hiram Malone
Eulalia Bernard
Marta Rojas
Toni Morrison
Adrienne Kennedy
Alvin Aubert
Etheridge Knight
Gerald-Felix Tchicaya U Tamsi
Lorris Elliot
Herbert Simmons
Flora Nwapa
Florence Ladd
Melvin Van Peebles
Rene Philoctete
Mongo Beti aka Alexandre Biyidi Awala
Michael Anthony
Useni Eugene Perkins
V.S. Naipaul
Val Gray Ward
Tom Covington Dent
Conrad Kent Rivers
Gerald William Barrax
Curtis Kojo Morrow
Calvin C. Hernton
Calvin Hicks
Ali Mazrui
Asa G. Hilliard III
Ernest J. Gaines
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Henry Dumas
Elechi Amadi
Oscar Ronald Dathorne
Wole Soyinka
Amiri Baraka
Audre Lourde
Clarence Cooper
Hubert G Locke
Sonia Sanchez
A.B. Spellman
Zulu Sofola
Georges Castera
Ivan Van Sertima
Kofi Awoonor
Colleen J. McElroy
Steve Cannon
Sam Cornish
Ahmos Zu-Bolton II
Johari Amini Kunjufu
Jay Wright
Francis Cress Welsing
Earl Lovelace
Dori Sanders
Edward S. Spriggs
Virginia Hamilton
Franketienne
Edward Baugh
Ed Bullins
June Jordan
Jayne Cortez
Lucille Clifton
Clarence Major
Serge Legagneur
 
Mervyn Morris
Claire Harris
Walter Dean Myers

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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,Deborah Keeler and Celia Suarez of the Miami Dade College North Campus library, Asili writers Geoffrey Philp for his input on English speaking Carribean writers and Max Pierre for his input on Haitian-Creole and Francophone writers. We would also like to acknowldge 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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