Heavenly belated birthday wishes Octavia E. Butler! Born June 22, 1947, Octavia E. Butler was a pioneer and an award winning author of speculative and science fiction. er work is known for its social commentary, strong female characters, and economical prose, spanning settings from the distant past to the far future. Butler’s Afrofuturist and feminist novels explore the intersections of race, identity, and science fiction. She died in 2006. Here are just a few of her amazing works:
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 Charles W. Chestnutt! Born June 20, 1858, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was an African-American author, essayist, political activist, and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South. He died in 1932. Here are just a few of his notable works:
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:
Belated birthday wishes Angela Johnson! Born June 18, Angela Johnson is an award-winning children’s and young adult author, poet, and an 2003 McArthur Fellow. Here are just a few of the 40 books she has written since she began writing in 1989.
Happy birthday Velma Maia Thomas! Born June 18, Velma Maia Thomas is an author, and historian. She is also the creator and curator of the Black Holocaust Exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia. Here are a few of her notable works:
Heavenly birthday wishes James Weldon Johnson! Born June 17, 1871, James Weldon Johnson was an author, poet, civil rights activist and co-composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing. He died in 1938.
Heavenly happy birthday, Marita Bonner! Born June 16, 1899, Marita Bonner was an African American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She passed away in 1971.
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 Frank X. Walker! Born June 11, Frank X. Walker is an African American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word “Affrilachia”, signifying the importance of the African American presence in Appalachia: the “new word … spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region’s African-American culture and history”. He was the winner of the 2025 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection for his book Load in Nine Times.
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