- Leslie Pinckney Hill
- The Wings of Oppression (1921)
- Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Dramatic History (1928)
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Featured in Caroling Dusk (1924)
- Jean Toomer
- Cane (1923)
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- There is Confusion (1924)
- Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928)
- Walter White
- Fire in the Flint (1924)
- Flight (1926)
- A Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White (1948)
- Countee Cullen
- Caroling Dusk
- Color (1925)
- One Way to Heaven (1931)
- Rudolph Fisher
- City of Refuge
- Walls of Jericho (1928)
- The Conjure-Man Dies (1932)
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Color Struck (1925)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
- Hallie Q. Brown
- Bits and Odds: A Choice Selection of Recitations (1880)
- First Lessons in Public Speaking (1920)
- Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1926)
- Langston Hughes
- The Weary Blues (1926)
- Not Without Laughter (1930)
- The Ways of White Folks (1934)
- Mule Bone (with Zora Neale Hurston) (1931)
- Helene Johnson
- Claude McKay
- Home to Harlem (1928)
- Banjo (1929)
- Banana Bottom (1933)
- Nella Larsen
- Wallace Thurman
- The Blacker the Berry (1929)
- George Schuyler
- Black No More (1931)
- Sterling A. Brown
- Southern Road (1932)
- Benjamin Mays
- The Negro Church (1933)
- Carter G. Woodson
- Arna Bontemps
- Black Thunder (1936)
African American Literature
Lists of African American writers and their selected works organized by time period.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
African American Literature: 1920-1940 (Harlem Renaissance)
This isn't the full list! I will be adding more soon.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
African American Literature: 1866-1919
- Elizabeth Keckley
- Frances Anne Rollin
- William Still
- The Underground Railroad (1871)
- Julia A. J. Foote
- Jacob Stroyer
- My Life in the South (1879)
- H. Cordelia Ray
- George Washington Williams
- A History of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion (1887)
- The History of the Negro Race in America 1619–1880 (1883)
- Bethany Veney
- Octavia V. Rogers Albert
- Josephine D. Heard
- Morning Glories (1890)
- A.E. Johnson
- Clarence and Corrine; or, God's Way (1890)
- The Hazeley Family (1894)
- Martina Meriden; or What Is My Motive? (1901)
- N.F. Mossell – (Gerturde Bustill Mossell)
- Edward A. Johnson
- A School History of the Negro Race in America (textbook) (1890)
- Lucy A. Delaney
- Anna J. Cooper
- A Voice from the South (1892)
- Frances Harper
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Oak and Ivy (1892)
- Poems of Cabin in Field (1899)
- Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow (1905)
- The Sport of the Gods (1902)
- Amanda Smith
- An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist (1893)
- Eloise Bibb
- Poems (1895)
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- Violets and Other Tales (1895)
- Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence (1914)
- Ida B. Wells
- A Red Record (1895)
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr.
- A Rhyming (1895)
- Links of Friendship (1898)
- Caleb, the Degenerate; A Play in Four Acts: A Study of the Types, Customs, and Needs of the American Negro (1903)
- Negro Tales (1912)
- Mary Weston Fordham
- Magnolia Leaves (1897)
- Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Kind of Education the Afro-American Most Needs (1898)
- Dreams of Life: Miscellaneous Poems (1905)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Study of the Negro Problems (1898)
- The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
- The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911)
- Booker T. Washington
- Future of American Negro (1899)
- Up From Slavery (1901)
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- The Conjure Woman (1899)
- The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
- The Marrow of Tradition (1901)
- Sutton E. Griggs
- Imperium in Imperio (1899)
- Overshadowed (1901)
- Unfettered (1902)
- The Hindered Hand (1905)
- Clara Ann Thompson
- Songs from the Wayside (1900)
- James D. Corrothers
- The Snapping of the Bow (1901)
- The Black Cat Club (1902)
- William Hannibal Thomas
- The American Negro (1901)
- Pauline Hopkins
- Contending Forces: A Romance Illstruative of Negro Life North and South (1900)
- Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice (1901)
- Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest (1902)
- Of One Blood, or, the Hidden Self (1903)
- Susie King Taylor
- Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (1902)
- William Braithwaite
- Lyrics of Life and Love (1904)
- The House of Falling Leaves (1908)
- Effie Waller Smith
- Songs of the Months (1904)
- Rhymes from the Cumberland (1909)
- Virginia E. Walker Broughton
- Women's Work, as Gleaned from the Women of the Bible (1904)
- Twenty Years' Experience of a Missionary (1907)
- Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Gleanings of Quiet Hours (1907)
- Annie Burton
- Maggie Pogue Johnson
- J. Vance Lewis
- William Pickens
- The Heir of Slaves (1911)
- Bursting Bonds (1923)
- Matthew Henson
- William H. Ferris
- Hubert Harrison
- Fenton Johnson
- A Little Dreaming (1913)
- Visions of the Dusk (1915)
- Songs of the Soil (1916)
- Tales of Darkest America (1920)
- Oscar Micheaux
- The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (1913)
- The Forged Note (1915)
- The Homesteader (1917)
- Olivia Ward Bush
- Driftwood (1914)
- Benjamin Griffith Brawley
- History of Morehouse College (1917)
- The Negro Literature and Art (1918)
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
African American Literature: 1700-1865
- Lucy Terry Prince
- Bars Fight (1746)
- Jupiter Hammon
- An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ with Penitential Cries (1761)
- Winter Piece (1782)
- An Address to the Negroes of the State of New York (1786)
- Phillis Wheatley
- John Marrant
- Olaudah Equiano
- Benjamin Banneker
- Boston King
- Solomon Bayley
- Samuel Cornish
- Founder of Freedom’s Journal, the first black newspaper in the United States. (1827)
- John Brown Russwurm
- Editor of Freedom's Journal
- Robert Roberts
- David Walker
- Mary Prince
- The History of Mary Prince (1831)
- Maria W. Stewart
- Why Sit Ye Here and Die?, a lecture. (1832)
- Susan Paul
- Memoir of James Jackson (1835)
- Robert Benjamin Lewis
- Light and Truth (1836)
- Jarena Lee
- The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee (1836)
- Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee. (1849)
- Charles Ball
- Lewis Woodson
- Wrote under the pen name “Augustine” to the Colored American newspaper from 1837-1841
- Moses Roper
- James McCune Smith
- Wrote during the 1840s, The Works of James McCune Smith: Black Intellectual and Abolitionist
- Moses Grandy
- Armand Lanusse
- Les Cenelles (1845)
- Frederick Douglass
- Isaac Jefferson
- William Wells Brown
- Josiah Henson
- Henry Walton Bibb
- Sojourner Truth
- Martin Delany
- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (1852)
- Blake: or, the Huts of America (Written in 1859-1862, published in 1970)
- Nancy Prince
- Solomon Northup
- Twelve Years a Slave (1853)
- Hannah Bond/Crafts
- The Bondwoman's Narrative (written in 1850s, published in 2002)
- Josephine Brown
- Austin Steward
- Twenty-Two Years a Slave (1857)
- Frank J. Webb
- The Garies and Their Friends (1857)
- Robert Reed
- Harriet Wilson
- Our Nig (1859)
- Ellen and William Craft
- Harriet Jacobs
- Paul Jennings
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