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List of African-American writers

 
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This is a list of African American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African American literature.

Note: Consult Who is African American? to gain a better sense as to who can be listed as an African American writer.

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Sharon S. Milon

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  • Ivan Van Sertima (born in Kitty Village, Guyana, on 26 January 1935), professor, author, historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University, noted proponent of theories of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas
  • Henry Van Dyke

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  1. ^ [1] "As the first African-American fiction writer to achieve a national reputation, Ohio native Charles W. Chesnutt..."
  2. ^ [2] "Although he has written much outside the genre, Samuel R. Delany is, along with Octavia Butler, one of two African Americans who, as writers, rank near the..."
  3. ^ [3] "African-American novelist William Demby was born [...]"
  4. ^ http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/Winners/Biography.aspx?id=830
  5. ^ [4] "Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain national eminence as a poet."
  6. ^ [5] "He is an African-American writer and educator."

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