African Authors
This civil rights author and poet is best known for her work, "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" published in 1969
Who is Maya Angelou
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Who is Frederick Douglass
The Translation of Dr. Apelles is this author's most famous work, which won him many awards in the book's 2006 publication
Who is David Treuer
This literary theorist is known for his ideal of an "oriental" viewpoint of culture; the West's depiction of the East
Who is Edward Said
Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award
Who is Yoko Ogawa
Known for being the prominent leader of the Harlem Renaissance, this author was the one of the earliest innovators of "jazz poetry".
Who is Langston Hughes
The Joy Luck Club
Who is Amy Tan
His first book, There There, was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. His name contains this citrus fruit.
Who is Tommy Orange
Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher, his ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure
Her work frequently deals with Korean and Korean American topics. She is the author of the novels Free Food for Millionaires and Pachinko
Who is Min Jin Lee
The first African American Woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which as awarded for her novel, The Color Purple
Who is Alice Walker
The Round House
Who is Louise Erdrich
This Canadian writer published a series of Indigenous literature books, including Green Grass, Running Water
Who is Thomas King
German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, critic of political economy, and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the four-volume Das Kapital
Who is Karl Marx?
Korean American poet, writer, consultant, and educator living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, known for her collection of poems, The Wet Hex
Who is Sun Yung Shin
The critically acclaimed Song of Solomon brought her national attention and won the National Book Critics Circle Award to this author
Who is Toni Morrison
House Made of Dawn
M. Scott Momaday
This author served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms
Who is Joy Harjo
French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud", Lacan gave yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, and published papers that were later collected in the book Écrits
Who is Jacques Lacan
Poet, professor, editor, organizer, and public speaker. In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
Who is Tina Chang
Author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers
Who is Alex Haley
Being Brought From Africa to America
Who is Phillis Wheatley
This author was widely known for his book Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, which helped attract national attention to Native American issues in the same year as the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement
Who is Vine Deloria Jr.
This author coins this theory of dialogism suggested that an individual's speech is shaped in continuous interaction with others' utterances through the experience of assimi- lating others' words.
Who is Mikhail Bakhtin
Japanese writer; she has won the Gunzo Prize for New Writers, the Mishima Yukio Prize, the Noma Literary New Face Prize, and the Akutagawa Prize.
Who is Sayaka Murata