List of African-American non-fiction writers
(See also)
A
- Larry Dell Alexander (born 1953), visual artist, author of commentaries on Christianity
- Chalmers Archer (1928–2014)
B
- Christopher C. Bell (born 1933)
C
- Jennie Carter (1830–1881), journalist and essayist
- Julia Ringwood Coston, 19th-century Afro-American publisher and magazine editor who founded the first magazine ever published for black women
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 (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso
H
- Karla F.C. Holloway (born 1949), author, scholar, professor, administrator Duke University
- bell hooks (1952–2021), feminist, author, professor
K
- Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907), wrote a controversial book about her time at the White House as Mary Todd Lincoln's employee and confidante
M
Denise Monique (born 1977), author of "Despite My Odds: A Memoir," published February 2020
- E. Frederic Morrow (c. 1906–1994), author of Black Man in the White House, a memoir of his years as the first African American appointed to a president's administrations (1955–1960)
N
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (born 1958), astrophysicist and science communicator
P
- Rosa Parks (1913–2005), civil rights leader
S
- Thomas Sowell (born 1930), economist, syndicated columnist, academic at the Hoover Institution
T
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, writer, former president of Spelman College
- Lynn Toler (born 1959), 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 (born c. 1780), the supposed author of an 1847 slave narrative, The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and his Experience of Slavery in South Carolina
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Notes
- ^ W. E. B. Du Bois - African-American History Archives Archived September 19, 2005, at the Wayback Machine