Lolita Files
Omar Tyree
Eric Jerome Dickey
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Tina McElroy Ansa
Connie Briscoe
Walter Mosley
Rosalyn McMillan
August Wilson
Beverly Jenkins
Tananarive Due
Ann Petry
Richard Wright
A.J. Verdelle
Jamaica Kincaid
Albert French
John Edgar Wideman
Bebe Moore Campbell
Maya Angelou
Nikki Giovanni
Dorothy West
Edwidge Danticat
Charles Johnson
James Baldwin
Chinua Achebe
Virginia DeBerry
Diane Mckinney-Whetstone
E. Lynn Harris
Cornel West
Marita Golden
Ralph Ellison
bell hooks
Iyanla Vanzant
Gloria Naylor
Alice Walker
Gayl Jones
Toni Morrison
Langston Hughes
Terry McMillan
Octavia Butler
Alex Haley
Maryse Conde
Sonia Sanchez
Anita Bunkley
Zora Neale Hurston
Chester Himes
J. California Cooper
April Sinclair
Ernest Gaines