Muß umbenannt Werden: Bekannte Afro-Amerikanische Autoren (auch politische Schriftsteller).
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Elizabeth Alexander (* 1962). Dichterin
- Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). in Ghana, in Ägypten
- William Attaway (1911-1986). Blood on the Forge. Neuausgabe "New York Review of Books" Classics
- James Baldwin (1924-1987), Frankreich, Istanbul, Schweiz
- Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
- Amiri Baraka (* 1934). früher LeRoi Jones. Beat Generation, Schwarzer Nationalismus, Maoismus
- Gwendolyn Bennett. Harlem Renaissance.
- Arna Bontemps. Harlem Renaissance
- Marita Bonner. Harlem Renaissance.
- Linda Brent; eigentlich Harriet Ann Jacobs (1818-1896); Autobiographie 1861.
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)
- Claude Brown (1937-2002): Manchild in the Promised Land (1965). Desch, München 1966.
- Loyd L. Brown Iron City DDR: 1952
- Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989). Dichter. Southern Road (1932)
- William W. Brown: Narrative of William W. Brown, A Fugitive Slave. (1847).
- William Wells Brown: Clotel.
- Olivia Ward Bush (1869-1944)
- Octavia E. Butler. Feministische Science-fiction
- Charles W(addell) Chesnutt (1858-1932)
- Alice Childress. Like One of the Family
- Eldridge Cleaver: "Soul on Ice"
- Wanda Coleman
- Countee Cullen
- Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987).
- Martin R. Delany Blake, or the Huts of America (1859)
- Samuel R. Delany
- Frederick Douglass (1818-1895): Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas: An American Slave (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)
- Rita Dove
- William Edward Burghardt DuBois (1868-1963): The Autobiography (1960)
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935)
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Waldo Ellison (1914-1994). The Invisible Man. (1952)
- Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrtive of the Life of O. E. or Gustavus Vassa, the African... 1791 narrtive
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Rudolph Fisher. Harlem Renaissance
- John Hope Franklin (* 1914). Soziologe, politischer Autor
- Ernest J. Gaines.
- Marcus Garvey
- Nikki Giovanni.
- Donald Goines
- Shirley Graham. Your Most Humble Servant
- Dick Gregory (* 1932): Nigger (1964)
- Angelina Weld Grimké. Rachel (Drama). Harlem Renaissance.
- Alex Haley: Roots (1976)
- Briton Hammon: A Narative (1760)
- Jupiter Hammon: An Evening Thought...(1761). To Miss Phillis Wheatley (poem, 1778)
- Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun. 1959
- Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)
- Robert E. Hayden
- Chester Himes
- George Moses Horton The Hope of Liberty (poems, 1830)
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Harriet A. Jacobs (1813-1897), Pseudonym Linda Brent. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (1861)
- Ted Joans
- A(melia) E(tta) Johnson (1858-1922). Erbauliche Romane.
- Charles R. Johnson (* 1948). Middle Passage
- Charles S(purgeon) Johnson. Soziologe. Harlem Renaissance
- Charles (Richard) Johnson (* 1948)
- Helene Johnson
- James Weldon Johnson: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912); Along This Way (1933) ; God's Trombones (poetry, 1927)
- Edward P. Jones. The Known World (2004)
- Gayl Jones: The Birdcatcher (1985)
- LeRoi Jones, seit Mitte der 1960er Amiri Baraka
- John Oliver Killens (1916-1987). Youngblood (1954)
- Nella Larsen (1891-1964). Harlem Renaissance.
- Alain Locke; Hrsg. The New Negro. 1925
- Audre Lorde
- Claude McKay
- Terry McMillan
- Clarence Major (Olympia Press); Dichter; Herausgabe Schwarzer Dichter
- Paule Marshall
- Toni Morrison (* 1931). The Bluest Eye (1969); Tar Baby (1981); Beloved (1987); Jazz (1993)
- Walter Mosley, crime
- Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, 1982
- Huey P. Newton
- Richard Bruce Nugent. Harlem Renaissance
- Ann Petry. The Street. 1946
- Dudley Randall (1914-2000). Verleger, politischer Dichter. Hans Werner Henze benutzte sein Gedicht Roses and Revolutions für den Liederzyklus Voices (1973).
- Ishmael Reed. Schwarzer Nationalismus, Umbra Workshop. Y Bird. Postmoderne Romane
- Conrad Kent Rivers (1933-1968). Schwarzer Nationalismus/Revolutionäre Lyrik
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand. 1958
- Sonia Sanchez
- George Samuel Schuyler (1895-1977). Harlem Renaissance
- Ntozake Shange
- Archie Shepp; Jazz-Musiker, Dichter
- Iceberg Slim
- Amanda Smith (1837-1915)
- Effie Waller Smith (1879-1960)
- William Gardner Smith (1927-1974). Expatriation 1951.
- The Last of the Conquerors. 1948
- Anger at Innocence. 1950
- South Street. 1954
- The Stone Face, 1963.
- Return to Black America. 1970
- Anne Spencer
- Cecil Taylor Free Jazz Musiker, Dichter
- Susie (Baker) King Taylor (1848-1912). Reminiscences of my Life in Camp: With the U.S. 33rd Colored United States Troops. (1902)
- Lorenzo Thomas
- Clara Ann Thompson (1869-1949)
- Priscilla Jane Thompson (1871-1942)
- Jean Toomer (1894-1967): Cane (1923)
- Wallace Thurman Harlem (Drama)
- Nat Turner. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831)
- Alice Walker Meridian (1984); The Color Purple (1986)
- Margaret Walker (Schriftstellerin) Jubilee 1966?
- Frank J. Webb (a free black man from Philadelphia, PA): The Garies and Their Friends in London (London 1857)
- Dorothy West (1907-1998). The Wedding. (1995), als Die Hochzeit (1996)
- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Up from Slavery 1900
- Phillis Wheatley (c.1753-1784). Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. London 1773.
- Walter White (1893-1955). Politischer Autor der Harlem Renaissance.
- John Edgar Wideman
- Harriet E. Wilson Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859)
- Richard Wright (Schriftsteller) (1908-1960). Uncle Tom's Children; Native Son; The Outsider; American Hunger
- Frank Yerby (1916-1991).
- Al Young (* 1939)
- Sandra Young: Ein Rattenloch ist kein Vogelnest (nicht in den USA veröffentlicht)