Welcome to the official site for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.
Biography.com's entry for Baldwin, novelist and playwright during the mid-20th century.
Welcome to Maya Angelou’s Official Site. Dr. Maya Angelou is a remarkable Renaissance woman who is hailed as one of the great voices of contemporary literature.
Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature and is closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance.