Compiled by library staff.
- Chinua Achebe
- Jenoyne Adams
- Rochelle Alers
- Maya Angelou
- Tina McElroy Ansa
- James Baldwin
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Steven Barnes
- Eleanor Taylor Bland
- Arna W. Bontemps
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Wesley Brown
- Anita Bunkley
- Levar Burton
- Octavia E. Butler
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Barbara Chase-Riboud
- Charles Chesnutt
- Clarence Cooper
- J. California Cooper
- Margaret Cuthbert
- Christopher Darden
- Samuel R. Delaney
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Tananarive Due
- Paul Dunbar
- David Anthony Durham
- Grace Edwards
- Ralph Ellison
- Leslie Esdaile
- Jessie Fauset
- Bette Ford
- Gwynne Forster
- Albert French
- Ernest J. Gaines
- LaFlorya Gauthier
- Robert Greer
- Terris M. Grimes
- Shirley Hailstock
- Alex Haley
- Gary Hardwick
- E. Lynn Harris
- Gar Haywood
- Chester Himes
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Monica Jackson
- Sheneska Jackson
- Beverly Jenkins
- Yolanda Joe
- Gayl Jones
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Sandra Kitt
- Jake Lamar
- Nella Larsen
- Benilde Little
- Malcolm X
- Paule Marshall
- Bernice McFadden
- Diane McKinney-Whetstone
- Rosalyn McMillan
- Terry McMillan
- Penny Mickelbury
- Sharon Mitchell
- Toni Morrison
- Walter Mosley
- Gloria Naylor
- Barbara Neely
- Gordon Parks
- Ann Petry
- Gary Phillips
- Ted Poston
- Francis Ray
- Ishmael Reed
- Kimberla Lawson Roby
- James Sallis
- Dori Sanders
- Danzy Senna
- Ntozake Shange
- April Sinclair
- Mary Burnett Smith
- Eboni Snoe
- Sister Souljah
- Pamela Thomas-Graham
- Wallace Thurman
- Jean Toomer
- Nichelle Tramble
- Dawn Trice
- David Trout
- Omar Tyree
- Alice Walker
- Blair Walker
- Margaret Walker
- Margie Walker
- Dorothy West
- Van Whitfield
- John Edgar Wideman
- John Alfred Williams
- Ken Wiwa
- Paula L. Woods
- Courtni Wright
- Richard Wright
- Frank Yerby
- Shay Youngblood
