Award Winners
Who was the first black woman to win a Nobel prize in literature?
Toni Morrison
This author wrote the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Zora Neale Hurston
Who wrote the poem Still I Rise?
Maya Angelou
This author graduated from USCB and has gone on to write several published books, her most recent called, When I Was Death.
Alexis Henderson
This author wrote the memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
The playwright wrote Fences, and won multiple Pulitzer prizes.
August Wilson
This author wrote the fiction novel, Beloved.
Toni Morrison
This is one of the poems that Langston Hughes is most known for, beginning with the line, "What happens to a dream deferred?"
Harlem
Who wrote the novel, The Hate U Give?
Angie Thomas
The memoir, Black Boy, was written by this author and published in 1945.
Richard Wright
This author won the National Book Award for her book, Salvage the Bones.
Jesmyn Ward
Alice Walker
This poet and activist wrote the poem, We Real Cool.
Gwendolyn Brooks
This author wrote the novel, Between the World and Me.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Her bestselling memoir, Becoming, was published in 2018.
Michelle Obama
Who was the first black woman U.S. Poet Laureate in 1993?
Rita Dove
What is the name of the man who wrote, Invisible Man?
Ralph Ellison
This poet wrote, Ballad of Birmingham.
Dudley Randall
This Author wrote the dystopian sci-fi novel called, The Parable of the Sower.
Octavia E. Butler
This is the memoir written by Solomon Northup.
Twelve Years a Slave
He won a Pulitzer prize for poetry for The Tradition in 2020.
Jericho Brown
This novel is believed to be the first written by a black woman in America.
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts.
This poet wrote the heart-wrenching poem entitled, The Slave Mother.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Colson Whitehead won a Pulitzer prize for this book.
The Underground Railroad
He wrote, Heavy: An American Memoir, that was published in 2018.
Kiese Laymon