Black History Month is an opportunity to promote awareness of contributions of African Americans to our cultural history in the United States. Library users may want to know about African American authors. Not everyone who writes materials with African American topics or features African American characters is an African American.

Some authors in the list below are African or Caribbean African writers; some are Canadian. I have included those who write fiction for children on material housed in the Anchorage School District. If a new African American author should be added to this list, let me know at: shaw_ruth_jean@asdk12.org

Agard, John
Angelou, Maya
Arkhurst, Joyce Cooper
Armstron, Robb
Badoe, Adwoa
Bailey, Pearl
Baker Augusta Braxton
Baldwin, James
Bible Charles
Blackman, Malorie
Bloom, Valerie
Bolden, Tonya
Bond, Jean Carey
Bontemps, Arna Wendell
Boyd Candy Dawson
Bradby, Marie
Brinburg, Petronella
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brown, Margery Wheeler
Bryan, Ashley
Buchi, Emecheta (Nigeria)
Burroughs, Margaret Taylor G.
Caines, Jeannette Franklin
Campbell, Barbara
Carew, Jan
Carter, Mary Kennedy
Childress, Alice
Clifton, Lucille
Coleman, Evelyn
Cornish, Sam
Crews, Donald
Crews, Nina
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Davidson, Dana
Davis Ossie
Dee, Ruby
DeGross, Monalisa
Deveaux, Alexis
Diop, Birago (Senegal)
Draper, Sharon M.
Duncan, Alice Faye
Emercheta, Buchi (Nigeria)
English, Karen
Faulkner, William J.
Feelings, Mauriel
Feelings, Tom
Fenner, Carol
Flake, Sharon G,
Flournoy, Valerie
Flournoy, Vanessa
Ford, Bernadette G.
Gilchrist, Jan Spivey
Glass, Frankcina
Graham, Lorenz
Greenfield, Eloise
Griffin, Judith Berry
Grimes, Nikki
Guirma, Grederic
Guy, Rosa
Hamilton, Virginina
Hansen, Joyce
Hardrick, Jackie
Haskins, James S
Herron, Carolivia
Higginsen, Vy
Hinds, P. Mignon
Howard, Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Howard, Moses Leon (Musa Nagenda)
Hudson, Cheryl Willis
Hudson, Wade
Hughes, Langston
Humphrey, Margo
Hunter, Kristin
Hyppolite, Joanne
Jackson, Jesse (1908-1983)
Johnson, Angela
Johnson, Dolores
Johnson, Herschel
Johnson, James Weldon
Keens-Douglas, Richardo
Lester, Julius
McKissack, Fredrick
McKissack, Pat
Mathes, Sharon Bell
Mederaris, Angela Shelf
Mendez, Phil
Mitchell, Margaree King
Mitchell, Rhonda
Mollel, Tololwa M.
Moore, Emily R.
Morrison, Toni
Moses, Shelia P.
Musgrove, Margaret
Myers, Walter Dean
Nelson, Marilyn
Olaleye, Isaac
Onyelfulu, Ifeoma
Onyefulo, Obi
Palmer, C. Edward
Patrick, Denise Lewis
Petry, Ann
Philip, Marlene Nourbese
Pinkney, Andrea David
Pinkney, Brian
Pinkney, Gloria Jean
Poitier, Sidney
Pomerantz, Charlotte
Porter, Connie
Price, Leontyne
Reese, Della
Reid, Desmond
Ringgold, Faith
Robinet, Harriette Gillem
Robinson, Adjai
Robinson, Dorothy W.
Rollins, Charlemae
Ruffins, Reynold
Sadu, Itah
Shange, Ntozake
Shearer, John
Sherman, Charlotte Watson
Sisulu, Elinor Batezat
Smith, Hope Anita
Smothers, Ethel Footman
Southerland, Ellease
Southgate, Martha
Steptoe, John
Stewart, Dianne
Stroud, Bettye
Tadjo, Veronique
Tarry, Ellen
Tate, Eleanora Elaine
Tarpley, Natasha
Taylor, Mildren D.
Thomas, Dawn C. Gill
Thomas, Ianthe
Thomas, Joyce Carol
Turner, Glennette Tilley
Walker, Alice
Walter, Mildred Pitts
Walton, Darwin McBeth
Weatherford, Carole Boston
Wesley, Valerie Wilson
White, Edgar B.
Wilkinson, Brenda
Williams, Lori Aurelia
Williams-Garcis, Rita
Wilson, Beth P
Wilson, Johnniece Marshall
Winston, Sherri
Woods, Brenda
Woodson, Jacqueline
Wright, Courni Crump
Yarbrough, Camille

January 2008