authors I can recommend that aren't already listed: Gloria Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place* Ernest Gaines (A Gathering of Old Men*; The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman*) Jean Toomer Bebe Moore Campbell (Your Blues Ain't Like Mine*) Claude McKay Chester Himes (A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich*) Margaret Walker Paul Lawrence Dunbar Ntozake Shange (Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo*)
*favorites/novels that I'd consider classic/essential reads for these authors
to answer your actual question:
Gloria Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place*
Ernest Gaines (A Gathering of Old Men*; The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman*)
Jean Toomer
Bebe Moore Campbell (Your Blues Ain't Like Mine*)
Claude McKay
Chester Himes (A Hero Ain't Nothin' But A Sandwich*)
Margaret Walker
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Ntozake Shange (Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo*)
*favorites/novels that I'd consider classic/essential reads for these authors