The Good Black News, August 3, 2016 —
AALBC.com’s 50 Favorite African-American Authors of the 20th Century
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The African American Literature Book Club —
1,826 readers cast votes back in 2001 for their favorite African-American authors.
Here we share the 50 authors who received the most votes ranked in the order of the total number of votes received.
Below are the top 15.
# 1 — (6.24%) Toni Morrison
# 2 — (5.42%) Zora Neale Hurston
# 3 — (4.82%) Maya Angelou
# 4 — (4.71%) J. California Cooper
# 5 — (4.33%) Alice Walker
# 6 — (3.94%) Langston Hughes
# 7 — (3.72%) E. Lynn Harris
# 8 — (3.56%) James Baldwin
# 9 — (3.23%) Terry McMillan
# 10 — (3.18%) Bebe Moore Campbell
# 11 — (2.74%) Richard Wright
# 12 — (2.57%) Walter Mosley
# 13 — (2.52%) Eric Jerome Dickey
# 14 — (2.41%) Sheneska Jackson
# 15 — (2.19%) Octavia Butler
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