| AUTHOR |
NUMBER OF APPEARANCES |
YEAR OF BIRTH |
MOVEMENT |
| Briton Hammon
|
1
|
1700 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Olaudah Equiano
|
7
|
1745 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Philis Wheatley
|
10
|
1753 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Samuel Cornish
|
1
|
1795 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| David Walker
|
3
|
1796 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Sojourner Truth
|
3
|
1797 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| John Russwurm
|
1
|
1799 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Martin Delany
|
3
|
1812 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Harriet Jacobs
|
5
|
1813 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| William Wells Brown
|
3
|
1814 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Frederick Douglas
|
10
|
1818 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| James Monroe Whitfield
|
1
|
1822 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Frances Harper
|
3
|
1825 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Booker T. Washington
|
9
|
1856 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Charles Chesnutt
|
10
|
1858 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Pauline Hopkins
|
3
|
1859 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Ida Wells Barnett
|
3
|
1862 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| W.E.B. Du Bois
|
9
|
1868 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| James Weldon Johnson
|
2
|
1871 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Paul Laurence Dunbar
|
4
|
1872 |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
| Jessie Fauset
|
3
|
1882 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Claude McKay
|
5
|
1889 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Nella Larsen
|
4
|
1891 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Zora Neale Hurston
|
8
|
1891 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Jean Toomer
|
9
|
1894 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Langston Hughes
|
10
|
1901 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Sterling A. Brown
|
6
|
1901 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Countee Cullen
|
10
|
1868 |
Harlem Renaissance
|
| Richard Wright
|
10
|
1868 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Robert Hayden
|
7
|
1913 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Ralph Ellison
|
10
|
1914 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Gwendolyn Brooks
|
9
|
1913 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| James Baldwin
|
10
|
1924 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Malcolm X
|
1
|
1925 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
1
|
1929 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Paule Marshall
|
1
|
1929 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Toni Morrison
|
5
|
1931 |
Post Black Arts Movmement
|
| Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
|
11
|
1934 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Audre Lorde
|
8
|
1934 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Lucille Clifton
|
3
|
1936 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Ishmael Reed
|
5
|
1938 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Michael Harper
|
7
|
1938 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Toni Cade Bambara
|
5
|
1939 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| Julius Lester
|
1
|
1939 |
Unaffiliated
|
| Alice Walker
|
7
|
1944 |
Black Arts Movement
|
| August Wilson
|
3
|
1945 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Yusef Konumyakaa
|
3
|
1947 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Jamaica Kincaid
|
2
|
1949 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Edward P. Jones
|
1
|
1950 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Rita Dove
|
7
|
1952 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Edwidge Danticat
|
2
|
1969 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| Tracy K. Smith
|
1
|
1972 |
Post Black Arts Movement
|
| [5 Negro Songs]
|
2
|
N/A |
Pre-Harlem Renaissance
|
* Fredner, Erik, et al. “Reading Norton Anthologies: Canons and Trajectories”. Stanford University Literary Lab. https://litlab.stanford.edu/projects/