What follows is a list of 104 black writers who were mentioned in The Times last week. They are poets, novelists, essayists, playwrights, scholars, and memoirists. I was interested in the occurrence of mentions in a major newspaper.
Ayobami Adebayo
Tomi Adeyemi
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Michelle Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
Jeffery Renard Allen
Ngozi Anyanwu
Paul Beatty
Reginald Dwayne Betts
James Brinkley
Jericho Brown
Marcus Burke
Zinzi Clemmons
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Edwidge Danticat
Nathan Alan Davis
Rita Dove
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Cornelius Eady
Glory Edim
Esi Edugyan
Akwaeke Emezi
Percival Everett
Eve Ewing
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Roxane Gay
Nelson George
Nikki Giovanni
Annette Gordon-Reed
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Yaa Gyasi
James Hannaham
Aleshea Harris
Jeremy O. Harris
Terrance Hayes
bell hooks
James Ijames
Samantha Irby
Michael R. Jackson
Mitchell S. Jackson
Major Jackson
Brian Keith Jackson
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
N. K. Jemisin
Morgan Jerkins
Tyehimba Jess
Mat Johnson
Tayari Jones
Sarah Jones
Edward P. Jones
Saeed Jones
Robert Jones, Jr.
Jamaica Kincaid
Yusef Komunyakaa
Rickey Laurentiis
Victor LaValle
Kiese Laymon
Ayana Mathis
Imbolo Mbue
James McBride
Shane McCrae
Reginald McKnight
Dinaw Mengestu
Dominique Morisseau
Toni Morrison
Fred Moten
Harryette Mullen
Lynn Nottage
Michelle Obama
Nnedi Okorafor
Ijeoma Oluo
Nell Irvin Painter
Gregory Pardlo
Morgan Parker
Suzan-Lori Parks
Imani Perry
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Darryl Pinckney
Brontez Purnell
Claudia Rankine
Ishmael Reed
Justin Phillip Reed
Phoebe Robinson
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Sonia Sanchez
Danzy Senna
Tracy K. Smith
Anna Deavere Smith
Zadie Smith
Danez Smith
Greg Tate
Angie Thomas
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Natasha Trethewey
Alice Walker
Jesmyn Ward
Colson Whitehead
Phillip B. Williams
De’Shawn Charles Winslow
George C. Wolfe
Jacqueline Woodson
Nicola Yoon
Kevin Young
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