Occupation-Writer-Poet
Gayl Jones (1949- )
The novelist and poet Gayl Jones was born November 23, 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky. She came from a creative background;...
George Elliott Clarke (1960- )
George Elliott Clarke, a poet, playwright and literary critic is also the E.J Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the...
James Monroe Whitfield (1822-1871)
James Monroe Whitfield, a black abolitionist and colonizationist, was born on April 10, 1822 in New Hampshire. Little is known...
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987)
Frank Marshall Davis rose to prominence as a poet and journalist during the Depression and the Second World War. Prior...
Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960)
Anita Scott Coleman was a relatively unknown but important western contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico...
Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958)
Angelina Weld Grimké was born into a legacy of advocacy for racial justice. As the daughter of Archibald Grimke, the...
Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
On November 30, 1912, in Fort Scott, Kansas, Sarah and Andrew Parks welcomed their fifteenth child, Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan...
Phillis Wheatley (1754-1784)
The Phillis Wheatley Minidoc Enslaved in Senegal [in a region that is now in Gambia] at age eight and brought...
Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)
Wallace Thurman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 16, 1902 to Beulah and Oscar Thurman. He was...
