List of African-American nonfiction writers

This is a list of African American nonfiction writers who are notable enough to be, or are likely to be, the subject of Wikipedia articles and who are largely known for their books or writing:

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A

• Larry Dell Alexander
• Chalmers Archer

B

• Christopher C. Bell

D

• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, activist, scholar^[1]

G

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950), literary critic and Harvard professor
• Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962), attorney, speaker, and New York Times best-selling author
• John Langston Gwaltney (born 1928), anthropologist, author of Drylongso

H

• Karla F.C. Holloway (born 1949), author, scholar, professor, administrator Duke University
• bell hooks (born 1952), feminist, author, professor

K

• Elizabeth Keckley (born 1818/19), wrote a controversial book about her time at the White House as Mary Todd Lincoln's employee and confidante

M

• E. Frederic Morrow, author of Black Man in the White House, a memoir of his years as the first African American appointed to a president's administration (from 1955-1960)

N

• Neil deGrasse Tyson, world-renowned astrophysicist and science communicator

P

• Rosa Parks, (1913–2005), civil rights leader

S

• Thomas Sowell, economist, syndicated columnist, academic at the Hoover Institution

T

• Beverly Daniel Tatum, writer, current president of Spelman College
• Lynn Toler, arbitrator on Divorce Court
• Lisa Tolliver, academic-practitioner, editor, journalist, and writer

W

• Cornel West (born 1953), public intellectual, author, Princeton University professor
• Steven Whitehurst (born 1967), award-winning author

Z

• Zamba Zembola

See also

• List of African-American authors

Notes

1. ↑ W. E. B. Du Bois - African-American History Archives Archived September 19, 2005, at the Wayback Machine.