1976 - Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is published.
1976 - Ishmael Reed published Flight to Canada.
1977 - Roots, the television mini-series, based
on Alex Haley’s novel, airs on ABC, on January 23 – 30.
1977 - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison is chosen as a Book-of-the-Month
Club selection.
1979 - Kindred by Octavia Butler is published.
1980 - The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara is published.
1982 - The Color Purple by Alice Walker is published.
1982 - The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor is published.
1983 - Alice Walker wins the
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction & National Book Award for Fiction for The Color Purple.
1986
- An adaptation of Native Son is produced with Oprah Winfrey plays role of Bigger Thomas's mother.
1987 - Toni Morrison publishes Beloved.
1988 - Toni Morrison wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel
Beloved. 1988 - January 24, 48 black writers and critics endorse Toni Morrison in The New York Times.
1988 - Morrison awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Beloved.
1989 - The Women of Brewster’s Place, television
mini-series, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Robin Givens appears.
1990
-
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter
Mosley is published.
1990 - Charles Johnson published Middle Passage. 1991 - Johnson's Middle Passage won the National Book Award for Fiction.
1993 - Toni Morrison receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1993 - Ernest J Gaines A Lesson
Before Dying is published by Knopf Publishing group.
1993 - Ernest J Gaines A Lesson Before Dying wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
1993 - Ernest J Gaines A Lesson Before Dying wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
1994 - Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
is published.
1995 - Film Devil in
a Blue Dress based on Walter Mosley’s novel released. The film stars Denzel
Washington.
1995 -
Octavia Bulter receives a MacArthur
Foundation Fellowship.
1996 - The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty is published.
1996 - Oprah Winfrey starts “Oprah’s Book Club,” featuring book for her viewers to read and discuss.
1996 - Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon (1977) in October.
1997 - Oprah’s Book Club features Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying (1993) in September.
1997 - Paradise by Toni Morrison is published.
1997 - Paradise by Toni Morrison is published.
1998 - Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997) in January.
1998 - Film How Stella Got Her Groove Back based on Terry McMillan novel is released.
1998 - Charles Johnson receives a MacArthur Fellowship.
1998 - Oprah’s Book Club features Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) in May.
1999 - The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead is published.
2000 - Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) in April.
2000 - The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah is published.
2001 - John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead is published.
2002 - Colson Whitehead receives a MacArthur Fellowship.
2002 - Oprah’s Book Club features Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) in April.
2002 - Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones is published.
2003 - Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks is published.
2003 - Love by Toni Morrison is published.
2003 - The Known World by Edward P. Jones is published.
2004 - Edward Jones awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
2007 - Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead is published.
2008 - A Father's Law by Richard Wright is posthumously published.
2008 - A Mercy by Toni Morrison is published.
2009 - Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead is published.
2011 - Zone One by Colson Whitehead is published.
2011 - Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones is published and later wins the National Book Award for Fiction.
2012 - Toni Morrison receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.2012 - Oprah's Book Club features Ayana Mathis's The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.
[Thanks to Kenton Rambsy for points 1986 - 1995]
Related:
• A Golden Age of Inspiration for Black Men Writers, 1977 - 1997
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