v. 1. James Baldwin -- Toni Cade Bambara -- Amiri Baraka -- Black Arts Movement -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Sterling Brown -- Octavia Butler -- Charles W. Chesnutt -- Lucille Clifton -- Countee Cullen -- Samuel R. Delany -- W. E. B. Du Bois -- Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Ralph Ellison -- Jessie Redmon Fauset -- Leon Forrest -- Ernest J. Gaines -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Michael S. Harper -- Robert Hayden -- Chester Himes -- Pauline Hopkins -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Charles Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Gayl Jones. v. 2. June Jordan -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Nella Larsen -- Audre Lorde -- Clarence Major -- Paule Marshall -- Claude McKay -- Toni Morrison -- Gloria Naylor -- Ann Petry -- Ishmael Reed -- Ntozake Shange -- The Slave narrative in American literature -- Spiritual autobiography -- Melvin Tolson -- Jean Toomer -- Alice Walker -- Margaret Walker -- Phillis Wheatley -- John Edgar Wideman -- John A. Williams -- Shirley Anne Williams -- August Wilson -- Jay Wright -- Richard Wright.
