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Margaret Anderson
My Thirty Years’ War (autobiography) 1930
The Fiery Fountains (autobiography) 1951
The Strange Necessity (autobiography) 1970

Gwendolyn Brooks
A Street in Bronzeville (poetry) 1945
Annie Allen (poetry) 1949
Maud Martha (poetry) 1953
In the Mecca (poetry) 1968

Frank Marshall Davis
Black Man's Verse (poetry) 1935
I Am the American Negro (poetry) 1937
47th Street (poetry) 1948

Lorraine Hansberry
The Drinking Gourd (play) 1959
A Raisin in the Sun (play) 1959
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (play) 1964

Harriet Monroe
Valeria and Other Poems (poetry) 1892
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (periodical) [founder and editor] 1912-36
Poets and Their Art (essays) 1933
A Poet's Life (autobiography) 1938

Margaret Walker
For My People (poetry) 1942
The Ballad of the Free (poetry) 1966
Jubilee (novel) 1966
Prophets for a New Day (poetry) 1970
October Journey (poetry) 1973
This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems (poetry) 1989

Richard Wright
Uncle Tom's Children: Five Long Stories (short stories) 1938
Uncle Tom's Children: Four Novellas (short stories) 1938
Native Son (novel) 1940
Native Son (The Biography of a Young American): A Play in Ten Scenes (play) 1941
Black Boy (nonfiction) 1945
The Outsider (novel) 1953

Frank Yerby
Health Card (short story) 1944
The Golden Hawk (novel) 1948
The Old Gods Laugh (novel) 1964
The Dahomean (novel) 1971

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