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African American Authors

For each list of published works, name the African American author.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Heart of a Woman
Maya Angelou
Dreams of my Father, Promised Land
Barack Obama
My Bondage and My Freedom
Fredrick Douglas
Beloved, Tar Baby, The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Invisible Man, Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting
Ralph Ellison
If Beale Street Could Talk, Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
The Ways of White Folks, Not Without Laughter, The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Alex Haley
The Color Purple, Meridian, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Food Health and Happiness, Journey to Beloved, What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey
Native Son, Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children, Black Power
Richard Wright
The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn, The Negro, Black Folk Then and Now
W.E.B. Du Bois
Kindred, Fledgling, The Earthseed Series, Xenogenesis
Octavia Butler
Women Race and Class, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance, Women Culture and Politics
Angela Davis
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses: Man of the Mountain,
Zora Neale Hurston
The Underground Railroad, Sag Harbor, The Colossus of New York
Colson Whitehead
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2 Comments
mahomeslice
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Level 62
Jan 31, 2026
Ta-Nehisi Coates is misspelled (there is an "e" in his last name)
kinjapan
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Level 72
Feb 1, 2026
There is indeed! Thank you for pointing it out!
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