List of African-American non-fiction writers

This is a list of African American nonfiction writers who are notable enough to be, or are likely to be, the subject of Wikipedia articles and who are largely known for their books or writing: (See also) == A == Larry Dell Alexander (born 1953), visual artist, author of commentaries on Christianity Chalmers Archer (1928–2014) == B == Christopher C. Bell (born 1933) == C == Jennie Carter (1830–1881), journalist and essayist Julia Ringwood Coston, 19th-century Afro-American publisher and magazine editor who founded the first magazine ever published for black women == D == W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), writer, activist, scholar == G == Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born 1950), literary critic and Harvard professor Lawrence Otis Graham (born 1962), attorney, speaker, and New York Times best-selling author John Langston Gwaltney (1928–1998), anthropologist, author of Drylongso == H == Karla F. C. Holloway (born 1949), author, scholar, professor, administrator Duke University bell hooks (1952–2021), feminist, author, professor == K == Elizabeth Keckley (1818–1907), wrote a controversial book about her time at the White House as Mary Todd Lincoln's employee and confidante == M == E. Frederic Morrow (c.

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