African American Authors

• Banks, William Augustus, ??:  Lived in Tennessee. Poetry.
• Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973: Born in Alexandria, LA; lived in Nashville, TN.  Novels, History, Poetry, Plays, Children's.
• Cansler, Charles W., 1871-1953: Born in Maryville, TN.  History, Nonfiction.
• Christian, Ethel L. Perry, 1886-??: Lived in LaGrange, TN.  Plays.
• Clem, Charles D., 1876-1934: Lived in Johnson City, TN.  Poetry, Journalism.
  
• Coleman, Jamye H., ??:  Attended Fisk University, Nashville, TN.  Poetry.
• Cousins, Linda, 1946-: Born in Knoxville, TN.  Children's, Nonfiction.
• Danner, Margaret, 1915-1986: Born in Chicago, IL; poet in residence at Lemoyne-Owen College, Memphis, TN.  Poetry.
• Duncan, Alice Faye, 1967-: Born in Memphis, TN.  Children's, Nonfiction, Biography.
• Fabio, Sarah Webster, 1928-1979: Born in Nashville, TN.  Poetry.

  Arna Bontemps

• Fisher, Leland M., 1875-1905: Lived in Humboldt, TN.  Poetry.
• Franklin, James Thomas, ??: Memphis, TN.  Poetry.
• Franklin, John Hope, 1915-: Born in Rentiesville, OK; attended and taught at Fisk University, Nashville, TN.  History, Nonfiction.
• Giovanni, Nikki, 1943-: Born in Knoxville, TN.  Poetry, Nonfiction, Children's.
• Gloster, Hugh, 1911-2002: Born in Brownville, TN.  Nonfiction.
• Green, Daryl, 1966--: Born in Shreveport, LA; lives in Knoxville, TN.  Nonfiction.
• Griggs, Sutton Elbert, 1872-1933: Born in Chatfield, TX; lived in Nashville, TN.  Novels, Nonfiction.
• Haley, Alex, 1921-1992: Born in Henning, TN.  Novels, Nonfiction, Essays.
• Handy, William Christopher, 1873-1958: Born in Florence, AL; lived in Memphis, TN.  Nonfiction.
• Hayden, Robert, 1913-1980: Born in Detroit, MI; taught at Fisk University, Tennessee.  Poetry.
  
  

  Alex Haley

• Jamison, Roscoe C., 1886-1918: Born in Winchester, TN. Poetry.
• Jones, Patricia Spears, 1951-: Born in Forest City, AR; attended Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.  Poetry.
• Joyce, Donald Franklin, 1938-: Born in Chicago, TN; lives in Clarksville, TN.  Nonfiction.
• Lane, James Franklin, ??: Born in Jackson, TN.  Poetry.
• Lee, George Washington, 1894-1976: Born in Indianola, MS; lived in Memphis, TN.  Novels, History. 
• Lyles, Aubrey, 1884-1932: Born in Jackson, TN.  Plays.
  
• Majors, Monroe Alpheus, 1864--1960: Born in Waco, TX; attended college and medical school in Tennessee.  Poetry, Nonfiction.
• McClellan, George M., 1860-1934: Born in Belfast, TN.  Short Stories, Poetry.
• Miller, Clifford, ??: Born in Columbia, TN.  Poetry.
• Morre, Larry: Lives in Memphis, TN. Novels, poetry.
• Reed, Ishmael, 1938-: Born in Chattanooga, TN.  Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Nonfiction.
• Rogers, Alex, 1876-1930: Born in Nashville, TN.  Poetry, Plays.
• Rowan, Carl Thomas, 1925--:  Born in Ravenscroft, TN.  Journalism, Nonfiction.
• Shockley, Ann Allen, 1927--:  Born in Louisville, KY; lives in Nashville, TN.  Novels, Journalism, Nonfiction.
• Thomas, Joyce Carol, 1938--:  Born in Ponca City, OK; teaches at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.  Novels, Poetry, Plays, Children's.
• Tolson, Melvin Beaunorus, 1898-1966:  Born in Moberly, MO; attended Fisk University in Nashville, TN. Poetry.
• Vaughan, Bridget: Born in Memphis, TN. Lives in Texas. Novels, plays.
• Washington, James Melvin, 1948-1997:  Born in Knoxville, TN.  History, Religious, Nonfiction.

  Richard Wright

• Wright, Richard Nathaniel, 1908-1960:   Born in Natchez, MS; lived for awhile in Memphis, TN.  Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Screenplays.
• Yette, Samuel Frederick, 1929--:  Born in Harriman, TN.  Journalism, Nonfiction.