James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, William Faulkner, Earnest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Amiri Baraka, Haki Madhabuti, Ralph Ellison, Sonja Sanchez, Langston Hughes, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Loraine Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Paul Beatty, Gail Jones, bell hooks, Nell Irvin Painter, F. Scott Fitzgerald.