Heavenly belated birthday wishes Willard Motley! Born July 14, 1909, Willard Motley was an African American author. Beginning as a teenager, Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He died in 1965. He was known for the book Knock on Any Door. He was the author of a few more books:
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:
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:
You can read some of her poems here:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes E. Lynn Harris! Born June 20, 1955, E. Lynn Harris was an African American author. Openly gay, he was best known for his depictions of African-American men who were on the down-low and closeted. He authored ten consecutive books that made The New York Times Best Seller list. He passed away in 2009. Here are just a few of his award-winning books:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes Sutton E. Griggs! Born June 19, 1872, Sutton Elbert Griggs was an American author, Baptist minister, academic administrator, educator, publisher, and social activist. He is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio, a utopian work that envisions a separate African-American state within the United States. He passed away in 1933. Some of his notable works:
Heavenly belated birthday wishes George Wylie Henderson! Born June 14, 1904, George Wylie Henderson was an African American author of the Harlem Renaissance. He passed away in 1965.
Happy birthday John Edgar Wideman! Born June 14, John Edgar Wideman is an African American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, and essayist. He was the first person to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction twice. His writing is known for experimental techniques and a focus on the African-American experience. A few of his notable books are:
Happy birthday Paul Beatty! Born June 9, Paul Beatty is an African American American author and professor of writing at Columbia University. In 2016, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout. It was the first time a writer from the United States was honored with the Man Booker. Here are a few more of his works:
Heavenly birthday wishes Gwendolyn Brooks! Born June 7, 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks was an award winning author, poet, and United States Poet Laureate. My favorite poem is “We Real Cool”. She passed away in 2000. Here are some of her classic poetry books.
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