Belated birthday wishes Wole Soyinka! Born July 13, 1934, Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, playwright, and poet. He has written three novels, ten collections of short stories, seven poetry collections, twenty-five plays and five memoirs. He has also written two translated works and many articles and short stories for newspapers and periodicals. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature. A few of his notable works are:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Sam Greenlee! Born July 13, 1930, Samuel Eldred Greenlee, Jr. was an African American writer of fiction and poetry. He is best known for his novel The Spook Who Sat by the Door, first published in March 1969 in London. He died in 2014. His other works are:
Heavenly birthday wishes Ashley Bryan! Born July 13, 1923, Ashley Bryan was a phenomenal award-winning poet and artist. He often wrote and portrayed the African American experience. He died in 2022. Here are just a few of his beautiful works:
Heavenly birthday wishes Charles R. Saunders! Born July 12, 1946, Charles Robert Saunders was an American-born, Black Canadian author and journalist, a pioneer of the “sword and soul” literary genre with his Imaro novels. Saunders who was born in Pennsylvania, moved to Canada. He died in 2020. His pioneer works are:
Happy birthday Troy Duster! Born July 11, Troy Duster is an African American sociologist, a 2005 President of the American Sociological Association and the grandson of Ida B. Wells. authored several highly influential books exploring the sociology of law, human genetics, and racial inequality. His key works are:
Happy birthday Nic Stone! Born July 10, Andrea Nicole Livingstone, known as Nic Stone, is a New York Times best selling African American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her middle grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages. Some of her best selling works are:
Heavenly birthday wishes June Jordan! Born July 9, 1936, June Millicent Jordan was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation. A prolific writer, June Jordan died in 2002. Here are just a few of her works:
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Heavenly belated birthday wishes Eric Jerome Dickey! Born July 7, 1961, Eric Jerome Dickey was an African American author. He wrote several crime novels involving grifters, ex-cons, and assassins, the latter novels having more diverse settings, moving from Los Angeles to the United Kingdom to the West Indies, each having an international cast of characters. He died in 2021. Some of his notable works are:
Heavenly birthday wishes Margaret Walker! Born July 7, 1915, Margaret Walker was an African American poet and author She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. She is known for her book, Jubilee and her poem, For My People. She died in 1998. Here are a few of her notable works:
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Heavenly birthday wishes Bessie Head! Born July 6, 1937, Bessie Head was a South African writer who, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana’s most influential writer. She wrote novels, short fiction and autobiographical works that are infused with spiritual questioning and reflection. She died in 1986. Her notable works:
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