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Literature by African-American women – Wikipedia List

The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women

Authors

A: Sade Adeniran

A:  Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

A:  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

AA:  Maya Angelou

C: Edwidge Danticat

CA:   Zetta Elliott

AC: Roxane Gay 

AA: Zora Neale Hurston

AA: Audre Lorde

AA: Toni Morrison

A: Flora Nwapa

AE:  Zadie Adeline Smith

AA:  Alice Walker

AA: Michele Faith Wallace

Erotic Fiction Novels

AA: Mary B. Morrison

AA: Zane

Fiction & Urban fiction

C: Rosa Guy

AA: Mary Monroe 

AA: Nikki Turner 

AA: Teri Woods

Novelist & Novella

A: Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta

A: Bessie Emery Head

A: Margaret Atieno Ogola

AA: Sister Souljah

A: Miriam Tlali

Playwright 

AA: Marita Bonner

C: Maryse Conde

AA: Lorraine Hansberry

Poets

A: May Ayim (pen name of May Opitz)

AA: Gwendolyn Brooks

AA: Sonia Sanchez 

Romance Novels

AA: Rochelle Alers

AA: Niobia Bryant

AA: Adrianne Janette Byrd

AA: Brenda Jackson (Contemporary multicultural romance novels)

AA: Beverly Jenkins – (historical and contemporary)

AA: Felicia Mason

C: Kayla Perrin

AA: Francis Ray

AA: Maureen Smith (Contemporary Romance, Romantic Suspense & Erotic Fiction)

Short Stories

A: Grace Ogot

 

Science Fiction

AA: Octavia Estelle Butler

AA: Alyssa Cole

 

Urban Fiction

AA: Kiki Swinson

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