Alice Walker
August Wilson
Bambara, Toni Cade (1939–1995)
Cullen, Countee (1903–1946)
Ernest J(ames) Gaines
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
James Baldwin
Jean Toomer
Langston Hughes
Marshall, Paule (1929– )
Molefi K(ete) Asante
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston