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- The Color Purple
- What is the name of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winning novel?
- "The House Behind the Cedars"
- What was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chestnutt?
- Maya Angelou
- Author of "All Gods Children Need Traveling Shoes" and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Where was Ralph Waldo Ellison, the famous African American novelist, born?
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar
- Who was the first African American to receive international recognition as a poet and novelist?
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Who wrote, "Raisin in the Sun?"
- James Baldwin
- Who wrote "The Fire Next Time", a disturbing vision of the destruction that faced American society if it could not solve its racial problems?
- Lucy Terry
- Who wrote "Bar Fight", the first poem published by an African American woman?
- My Bondage and My Freedom
- What famous narrative was written by Solomon Northup, a fugitive slave?
- Alice Walker
- Who has become one of the most celebrated authors of our time, addressing issues of race and women's rights?
- Publishing
- John H. Johnson is distinguished in what area of literature?
- The Autobiography of Mis Jane Pitman
- Name the novel written by Ernest J Gaines that was later adapted as a television movie starring Cicely Tyson
- Claude Brown
- author of "Manchild in the Promised Land"
- "Underground Railroad"
- What classic book published by William Still in 1872, contains a historical account of fugitive slaves?
- Ralph Ellison
- the author of "Invbisible Man" who became the first African American to win the National Book Award
- 1852
- Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in what year?
- Native Son
- What Richard Wright book was one of the bestselers of 1940?
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- The poet who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her book "Annie Allen"
- Langston Hughes
- Apoet, novelist, playwright and lyricist who traveled to Spain as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American.
- Toni Morrison
- Who was the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for literature?