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Top Black Authors

In 2014 Tina Fernandes Botts, Liam Kofi Bright, Myisha Cherry, Guntur Mallarangeng, and Quayshawn Spencer published the paper “What is the state…

Most important American writers

It’s that time of year when American literature fans start to wonder not only whether any American is going to take home the Nobel Prize in Literature…

New American writers

Primary Stages is committed to supporting playwrights at all stages of their careers and providing an artistic home where they can hone their…

American writers list

Here’s a great list of writers associations, writers groups, and organizations for writers! Many local writers organizations have affiliations…

Best American writers

When Granta published its first Best of Young Novelists selection in 1983, the words ‘young’ and ‘novelists’ were an unusual combination. Few…

Famous Black American writers

Reflections on African-American Authors of the 1940s To commemorate Black History Month 2014, ArthurAshe.org built upon Arthur Ashe s introduction…

Best contemporary American Writers

Perhaps my opinion here owes much to the fact that I’m Canadian and therefore still subject to excessive colonial reverence for people with cool…

Great Black writers

The FBI’s incessant monitoring of Black leaders like Martin Luther King and W.E.B. DuBois is now a well-known parcel of American history. But…

Best novels list

Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings, and winner of the Man Booker prize. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters This has been quite…

Great Novelists

Jane Austen is loved mainly as a charming guide to fashionable life in the Regency period. She is admired for portraying a world of elegant houses…

English American writers

Description: Since 1934 ELH has consistently published superior studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American…

Best American writers today

An aspiring writer choosing a college is a lot like a child trying to make a decision in a candy store. Cliched simile aside, the number of colleges…

Most influential writers

The world of the writer has always been one of great inequalities: for every hundred slaving waiters who write furtively by night, there’s a…

Contemporary American writers

The hottest literary topic on the ‘Net right now is reaction to Anis Shivani’s article in The Huffington Post, “The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary…

Black Male writers

By Kevin Reeves author of s.m.i.l.e. Young writers need models. Early in my apprenticeship my predecessors fed me greatly. Still, I was also…