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Also Known As Paulette Linda Williams
Born October 18, 1948 • Trenton • New Jersey
Died October 27, 2018 (aged 70) • Bowie • Maryland
Notable Works “Betsey Brown” • “Daddy Says” • “Ellington Was Not a Street” • “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” • “Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter” • “Nappy Edges” • “Ridin’ the Moon in Texas” • “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo” • “The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga” • “Three Views of Mt. Fuji” • “Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon” • “Whitewash”
Movement / Style Black Arts movement

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Amiri Baraka, c. 1964
Amiri Baraka
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Ishmael Reed
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Sylvia Plath
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Ana Castillo
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James Baldwin
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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Alice Childress
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Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.
Alice Walker
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Sonia Sanchez
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Theodore Dreiser
American author
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Shel Silverstein
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