African American

Maya Angelou                                       Jamaica Kincaid

James Baldwin                                      Terry McMillan

Toni Cade Bambara                               Mary Monroe

Octavia Butler                                       Toni Morrison

Bebe Moore Campbell                             Walter Moslely

Lucille Clifton                                        Alice Walker

Ralph Ellison                                          Dorothy West

Ernest Gaines                                        John Edgar Wideman

Nikki Giovanni                                       Crystal Wilkinson

E. Lynn Harris