ALL AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS THAT MAKE AN APPEARANCE IN
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
1956-2017


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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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