Author Toni Morrison poses for a portrait for her book entitled "Love" in Midtown Manhattan on August 29, 2002 in New York City.
New York, NY: In a writing position that doesn't appear to be comfortable but really is, novelist James Baldwin sprawls across the bed in his New...
Portrait of American author and filmmaker Zora Neale Hurston , late 1930s or early 1940s. She studied anthropology under scholar Franz Boas and wrote...
Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist Audre Lorde lectures students at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Lorde...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent for The Atlantic Magazine, wrote the cover piece about reparations in this month's issue...
Portrait of American poet and playwright Amiri Baraka as he poses at the New School, New York, New York, July 1, 1977.
Portrait of American author, poet, and activist Alice Walker, February 15, 1986. Walker wrote the Pulitzer Prize- and the American Book Award-winning...
April 1959: Writer and playwright Lorraine Hansberry poses for a portrait in her apartment at 337 Bleecker Street in April, 1959 in New York City,...
Portrait of US Poet Laureate Rita Dove, at the University of Virginia campus, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1994.
Bell hooks signs her book for Robert Wood during the celebration of Karibu Books' 10th anniversary at Prince George's Plaza in Hyattsville, MD. ORG...
American writer and sociologist W E B DuBois , a founder member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , he eventually...
American poet Gwendolyn Brooks sitting at a typewriter at home in Chicago, 2nd May 1950. She has just won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, for her...