| A | B |
|---|
| "If We Must Die" Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom | Clalude McKay (born in Jamaica) |
| "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" Not Without Laughter, The Weary Blues, The Ways of White Folks | Langston Hughes |
| Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back | Terry McMillan |
| A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | Ernest Gaines |
| Third Life of Grange Copeland, The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| Native Sone, The Outsider, Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| Jonah's Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| The Autobiograhy of an Ex-Colored Man | James Weldon Johnson |
| Copper Sund, The Ballad of a Brown Girl | Countee Cullen (married Dubois daughter, taught at Fisk University) |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansbury |
| Kindred, Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents | Octavia Butler |
| Another Country, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| Fences | August Wilson (Series of plays set in Pittsburgh. This play has been made into a move starring Denzel Washington) |
