Amiri Baraka

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1. Amiri Baraka

   Author of Dutchman and The Slave: Two Plays, Transbluesency: The Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995) (1961-1995), The Dead Lecturer: Poems.

2. Henry James

   Author of Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America, The Art of the Novel,

3. James Baldwin

   Author of Go Tell It on the Mountain, Another Country, Notes of a Native Son

4. John Dos Passos

   Author of Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

5. Paule Marshall

   Author of Brown Girl, Brownstones, Praisesong for the Widow, The Chosen Place, The Timeless People

6. W. E. B. Du Bois

   Author of The Souls of Black Folk, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

7. James Agee

   Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism, Letters of James Agee to Father Flye

8. Thornton Niven Wilder

   Author of The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America), Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis rey and Other Novels 1926-1948

9. David Levering Lewis

   Author of W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 [1868], When Harlem Was In Vogue, King; a Biography

10. Ishmael Reed

    Author of Mumbo Jumbo, Flight to Canada, Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

11. James Weldon Johnson

    Author of The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, James Weldon Johnson: Writings, The Book of American Negro Poetry: Revised Edition

12. William Carlos Williams

    Author of Paterson, In the American Grain, Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems

13. Dawn Powell

    Author of Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (Library of America), Dawn Powell: Novels 1944-1962 (Library of America)

14. John Hollander

    Author of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spi

15. Edward Albee

    Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance

16. Langston Hughes

    Author of The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, The Best of Simple, The Panther & the Lash

17. Robert Edward Duncan

    Author of Selected Poems [by Robert Edward Duncan], Bending the Bow, Roots and Branches

18. Richard Wright

    Author of Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children, The Outsider

19. Eugene O'Neill

    Author of Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Desire Under the Elms

20. David L. Ulin

    Author of Writing Los Angeles