African-American Authors List
This list is compilation of notable African-American fiction authors cataloged in our collection.
This is NOT a complete list of African-American authors in the collection.
General Fiction
Tina McElroy Ansa
Michael Baisden
L. A. Banks
Leslie E. Banks
O.H. Bennett
Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Daniel Black
Connie Briscoe
Kalisha Buckhanon
Bebe Moore Campbell*
Anita Bunkley
Cris Burks
Tajuana Butler
Stephen L. Carter
Lorene Cary
Pearl Cleage
J. California Cooper
Thulani Davis
Virginia DeBerry
Eric Jerome Dickey
Kia Dupree
David Anthony Durham*
Tananarive Due
Ralph Ellison
Percival L. Everett
Ernest J. Gaines
Marita Golden
E. Lynn Harris
Gar Anthony Haywood
Ernest Hill
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
Norma L. Jarrett
Yolanda Joe*
R. M. Johnson
Edward P. Jones
Tayari Jones
Erica Kennedy
Benilde Little
Lutishia Lovely
J. D. Mason
Ayana Mathis
James McBride
Bernice McFadden
Victor McGlothin*
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Rosalyn McMillan
Terry McMillan
Mary Monroe
Edward Kelsey Moore
Mary B. Morrison
Toni Morrison
Victoria C. Murray*
Gloria Naylor
Kendra Norman-Bellamy
Kayla Perrin*
Jacqueline Powell
Alice Randall
Francis Ray*
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Sapphire
Sister Souljah
Martha Southgate
Trisha R. Thomas
Dawn Turner Trice
Nikki Turner
Omar Tyree
Alice Walker
Carl Weber
Valerie Wilson Wesley*
Dorothy West
Colson Whitehead
John Edgar Wideman
Sheila Williams
Angela Winters
Terri Woods
Richard Wright
Inspirational
Stacy Hawkins Adams
Michele Andrea Bowen
Sharon Ewell Foster
Pat G’Orge-Walker
Vanessa Davis Griggs
Neta Jackson
E.N. Joy
Vanessa Miller
Victoria C. Murray*
Michelle Stimpson
Jacquelin Thomas
Tiffany L. Warren
Mystery
Dywane D. Birch
Eleanor Taylor Bland
Christopher Chambers
Christopher A. Darden
Grace F. Edwards
Ardella Garland
Nelson George
Robert O. Greer
Gary Hardwick
Gar Anthony Haywood
Yolanda Joe*
Solomon Jones
Penny Mickelbury
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Walter Mosley
Valerie Wilson Wesley*
Paula L. Woods
Young Adult
Nicole Bailey-Williams
Nikki Carter
Mildred Dent
L. Divine
Sharon Draper
Sharon Flake
Christopher Grant
Travis Hunter
Peggy Kern
John Langon
Paul Langon
Jeremy Love(GN)
Monica McKayhan
Patricia McKissack*
Denene Millner*
Stephanie Perry Moore
Walter Dean Myers*
Phyllis Naylor
Greg Neri
Celeste O. Norfleet*
Anne Schraff
Earl Sewell
Ni-Ni Simone
Hope Anita Smith
Sherri L. Smith
Allison Whittenberg
Tia Williams
Jacqueline Woodson*
Romance
Rochelle Alers
A.C. Arthur
Angela Benson
Adrianne Byrd
Zuri Day
Bette Ford
Gwynne Forster
Michele Grant
Donna Hill
Brenda Jackson
Beverly Jenkins
Victor McGlothin*
Vanessa Miller
Denene Millner*
Celeste O. Norfleet*
Elaine Overton
Suzetta Perkins
Kayla Perrin*
Nikki Rashan
Francis Ray*
Crystal V. Rhodes
Maureen Smith
Eboni Snoe
Yahrah St. John
Vickie Stringer
Kimberly Kaye Terry
Science Fiction-Fantasy
Steven Barnes
Levar Burton
Octavia Butler
David Anthony Durham*
John Ridley
Childrens
Bebe Moore Campbell*
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sharon Draper
Nikki Grimes
Virginia Hamilton
James Haskins
Elizabeth F. Howard
Julius Lester
Patricia McKissack*
Walter Dean Myers*
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Gloria Jean Pinkney
Connie Porter
Ntozake Shange
Mildred D. Taylor
Carole Boston Weatherford
Jacqueline Woodson*