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AA Authors
YGK These African-American Authors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The author of Go Tell It on the Mountain and the essay collection Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin |
| The protagonist of Go Tell It on the Mountain who struggles with his fanatically religious stepfather | John Grimes |
| The 2018 movie directed by Barry Jenkins was based on this Baldwin novel about Tish and Fonny | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| The first African-American person to win a Pulitzer Prize, awarded in 1950 for Annie Allen | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| The Chicago neighborhood that served as the setting for much of Gwendolyn Brooks' work | Bronzeville |
| The famous Brooks poem set at the "Golden Shovel" that repeats the word "We" | We Real Cool |
| The author of Invisible Man whose protagonist works at the Liberty Paint company | Ralph Ellison |
| The Black nationalist who attempts to lynch the narrator during the Harlem riots in Invisible Man | Ras the Destroyer |
| The author of the play A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Chicago neighborhood where the Younger family attempts to buy a house in A Raisin in the Sun | Clybourne Park |
| The Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "The Weary Blues" | Langston Hughes |
| The poem by Langston Hughes that inspired the title of A Raisin in the Sun | Harlem (or "A Dream Deferred") |
| The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and the folklore collection Mules and Men | Zora Neale Hurston |
| The Florida hometown of Zora Neale Hurston where many of her stories are set | Eatonville |
| The protagonist of Their Eyes Were Watching God who marries Logan Killicks, Jody Starks, and Tea Cake | Janie Crawford |
| The first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Pulitzer-winning novel Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| The plantation in Kentucky from which Sethe escapes in the novel Beloved | Sweet Home |
| The protagonist of The Bluest Eye who believes she is ugly and desires blue eyes | Pecola Breedlove |
| The Pulitzer-winning novel by Alice Walker written as a series of letters to God | The Color Purple |
| The protagonist of The Color Purple who survives abuse from her father and her husband, Mister | Celie |
| The first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral | Phillis Wheatley |
| The author of the 1940 bestseller Native Son and the memoir Black Boy | Richard Wright |
| The protagonist of Native Son who accidentally kills Mary Dalton and is sentenced to death | Bigger Thomas |
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