Authors (Inactive)

Akbar, Na'im
​Allen, James
Anderson, Claud (1)
​Andersen, Hans Christian (2)
​Andrews, V.C.

# Baker, Jean-Claude
^^# Barry, Marion
Jan Berenstain & Stan Berenstain
​Bonner, Lonnice Brittenum
​^^ Bowden, Charles
​Brown, H. Rap (Imam Jamil al-Amin)
Burdick, Eugene
​Burrell, Tom
# ​Butler, Octavia E. (3)

Crane, Stephen (4)

# Dickey, Eric Jerome

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Eastman, P.D.
​Ellison, Ralph
​Epstein, Lawrence

Fanon, Frantz
Feelings, Muriel
^^ Feelings, Tom
​Ferrell, Pamela
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
​Fletcher, Barry
​Fussell, Paul

Garvey, Marcus
^^ Garvey, Amy Jacques
# Gatto, John Taylor (5)
Ghali, Naglaa
​Golding, William
Gray, Farrah
​# Graham, Lawrence Otis (6)
​^^ Graydon, Carter
​Guest, Judith

Haley, Alex
​Hesse, Hermann
# Higgenbottom, Larry

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Jackson, George L.
Jin, Ha (1)
​# ​Johnson, Albert "Prodigy"

Kinard, Tulani
​Knowles, John
​# ​Kochiyama, Yuri

Lee, Harper
​Lee, Marjorie
​Lederer, William J.
​^# Lewis, John
​Litwack, Leon F.

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# ​Maathai, Wangari
​Mardon, Steven
​^ Martin, Tony
​* Miller, Bob
^^# Mims, Sekou
​Muhammad, Elijah

^^ O'Connor, Anne Marie

Pankau, Edmund J.
​Persaud, Rajen (7)

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& Rand, Ayn
​Rey, H.A. & Rey, Margret 
# ​Rhoden, William C.
​Rockwell, Thomas
** Rosner, Hild

Sendak, Maurice
​Dr. Seuss
* Sperber, Murray
Shakespeare, William
​Sheffield, Gary
​Steinbeck, John
Shelley, Mary
​Stoute, Steve

Taylor, Susan C.
Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa
​Tolkien, J.R.R.
​Twain, Mark
​Truby, John

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Vaca, Nicolas
& Vatsyayana

Walker, Juliet E. K.
​Williams, Roshumba
# Washington-Williams, Essie Mae
# Welsing, Frances Cress
# Williams, Stanley "Tookie"
Wilson, Amos N.
​Woodson, Carter G.

Malcolm X

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* Retired
​^^ Coauthor, Contributor, or Illustrator
^ Contributor
​** Narrator or Translator
# Since Deceased
& Currently reading

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(1) Every title except A Black History Reader
(2) The Little Mermaid
(3) Kindred, Fledging, and Parable of the Sower
(4) Forgotten anthology of short stories that included The Open Boat (S. Crane) and Saboteur (H. Jin)
(5) An earlier or original edition
​(6) Each title published by HarperCollins
(7) Indie e-book version in 2005

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