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Born January 14, 1916 • Macon • Georgia
Died October 27, 1987 (aged 71) • New York City • New York
Founder Harlem Writers Guild
Notable Works “And Then We Heard the Thunder” • “Black Man’s Burden” • “Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin” • “Great Gittin’ Up Morning” • “’Sippi” • “The Cotillion; or, One Good Bull Is Half the Herd” • “Youngblood”
Role In American civil rights movement • Black nationalism • Montgomery bus boycott
Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed
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W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois
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James Baldwin
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Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
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June Jordan.
June Jordan
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Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Edmund White
Edmund White
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Louis Auchincloss (centre) with Pres. George W. Bush and Laura Bush after receiving the National Medal of Arts, 2005.
Louis Auchincloss
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Diane Johnson
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper
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Toni Cade Bambara
American author and civil rights activist
Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray
American civil rights activist, lawyer, and writer
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
American author and educator
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Alice Walker
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
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Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward
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Rita Dove
Rita Dove
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