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List of African-American writers facts for kids

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This is a list of Black American authors and writers, all of whom are considered part of African-American literature, and who already have Wikipedia articles. The list also includes non-American authors resident in the US and American writers of African descent.

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  • Jordan Ifueko (born 1993)
  • Rashidah Ismaili (born 1941), poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright

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  • ZZ Packer (born 1973)
  • Gordon Parks (1912–2006), photographer, composer, author, poet, and film directo
  • Suzan-Lori Parks (born 1963), playwright, screenwriter, musician and novelist
  • Tyler Perry (born 1969), actor, filmmaker and playwright
  • Eric Pete (living), novelist and short-story writer
  • Ann Petry (1908–1997), writer of novels, short stories, children's books and journalism
  • Debra Phillips (born 1959)
  • Delores Phillips (1950–2014), poet and novelist
  • Steve Phillips (born 1964), author, columnist, political thought leader
  • William Pickens (1881–1954), orator, educator, journalist, and essayist.
  • Ann Plato (born c. 1824), educator and author
  • Sterling Plumpp (born 1940), educator and author
  • Carlene Hatcher Polite (1932–2009)
  • Alvin F. Poussaint (born 1934)
  • Jewel Prestage (1931–2014), first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in political science, former Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Southern University
  • Robert Earl Price (born 1942), playwright and poet

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  • Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011), novelist, editor, teacher and musician
  • Ivan Van Sertima (1935–2009), professor, author, historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University
  • Bethany Veney (c. 1813–1916), author of Aunt Betty's Story: The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)
  • Olympia Vernon (born 1973), novelist

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