ALL AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS THAT MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
1956-2017
Total Unique African American Writers: 52
Total Unique Authors: 435(1)
AUTHOR
|
NUMBER OF APPEARANCES
|
YEAR OF BIRTH
|
MOVEMENT
|
Briton Hammon
|
1
|
1700
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Olaudah Equiano
|
7
|
1745
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Philis Wheatley
|
10
|
1753
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Samuel Cornish
|
1
|
1795
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
David Walker
|
3
|
1796
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Sojourner Truth
|
3
|
1797
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
John Russwurm
|
1
|
1799
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Martin Delany
|
3
|
1812
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Harriet Jacobs
|
5
|
1813
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
William Wells Brown
|
3
|
1814
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Frederick Douglas
|
10
|
1818
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
James Monroe Whitfield
|
1
|
1822
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Frances Harper
|
3
|
1825
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Booker T. Washington
|
9
|
1856
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Charles Chesnutt
|
10
|
1858
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Pauline Hopkins
|
3
|
1859
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Ida Wells Barnett
|
3
|
1862
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
W.E.B. Du Bois
|
9
|
1868
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
James Weldon Johnson
|
2
|
1871
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Paul Laurence Dunbar
|
4
|
1872
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
Jessie Fauset
|
3
|
1882
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Claude McKay
|
5
|
1889
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Nella Larsen
|
4
|
1891
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Zora Neale Hurston
|
8
|
1891
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Jean Toomer
|
9
|
1894
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Langston Hughes
|
10
|
1901
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Sterling A. Brown
|
6
|
1901
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Countee Cullen
|
10
|
1868
|
Harlem Renaissance
|
Richard Wright
|
10
|
1868
|
Unaffiliated
|
Robert Hayden
|
7
|
1913
|
Unaffiliated
|
Ralph Ellison
|
10
|
1914
|
Unaffiliated
|
Gwendolyn Brooks
|
9
|
1913
|
Black Arts Movement
|
James Baldwin
|
10
|
1924
|
Unaffiliated
|
Malcolm X
|
1
|
1925
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
1
|
1929
|
Unaffiliated
|
Paule Marshall
|
1
|
1929
|
Unaffiliated
|
Toni Morrison
|
5
|
1931
|
Post Black Arts Movmement
|
Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
|
11
|
1934
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Audre Lorde
|
8
|
1934
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Lucille Clifton
|
3
|
1936
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Ishmael Reed
|
5
|
1938
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Michael Harper
|
7
|
1938
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Toni Cade Bambara
|
5
|
1939
|
Black Arts Movement
|
Julius Lester
|
1
|
1939
|
Unaffiliated
|
Alice Walker
|
7
|
1944
|
Black Arts Movement
|
August Wilson
|
3
|
1945
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Yusef Konumyakaa
|
3
|
1947
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Jamaica Kincaid
|
2
|
1949
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Edward P. Jones
|
1
|
1950
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Rita Dove
|
7
|
1952
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Edwidge Danticat
|
2
|
1969
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
Tracy K. Smith
|
1
|
1972
|
Post Black Arts Movement
|
[5 Negro Songs]
|
2
|
N/A
|
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
(1) Fredner, Erik, et al. “Reading Norton Anthologies: Canons and Trajectories”. Stanford University Literary Lab. https://litlab.stanford.edu/projects/
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