Salem Press

American Ethnic Writers
Authors by Ethnicity

African American
Ai
Angelou, Maya
Asante, Molefi K.
Baldwin, James
Bambara, Toni Cade
Baraka, Amiri
Bontemps, Arna
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brown, Claude
Brown, Sterling
Brown, William Wells
Bullins, Ed
Butler, Octavia E.
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Cary, Lorene
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Chesnutt, Charles Waddell
Childress, Alice
Cleaver, Eldridge
Clifton, Lucille
Cruz, Victor Hernández
Cullen, Countée
Davis, Angela Y.
Delany, Samuel R.
Derricotte, Toi
Dodson, Owen
Douglass, Frederick
Dove, Rita
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Eady, Cornelius
Elder, Lonne, III
Ellison, Ralph
Everett, Percival
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Fisher, Rudolph
Fuller, Charles
Gaines, Ernest J.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Giovanni, Nikki
Haley, Alex
Hamilton, Virginia
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harper, Michael S.
Harris, Wilson
Hayden, Robert
Himes, Chester
Hooks, Bell
Hughes, Langston
Hurston, Zora Neale
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, James Weldon
Jones, Gayl
Jordan, June
Kelley, William Melvin
Kennedy, Adrienne
Kincaid, Jamaica
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Knight, Etheridge
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Larsen, Nella
Lorde, Audre
Madhubuti, Haki R.
Major, Clarence
Malcolm X
Marshall, Paule
McKay, Claude
McKnight, Reginald
McMillan, Terry
McPherson, James Alan
Meriwether, Louise
Morrison, Toni
Mosley, Walter
Moss, Thylias
Murray, Albert
Myers, Walter Dean
Naylor, Gloria
Parks, Gordon, Sr.
Parks, Suzan-Lori
Petry, Ann
Pinckney, Darryl
Randall, Dudley
Reed, Ishmael
Sanchez, Sonia
Schuyler, George S.
Shange, Ntozake
Steele, Shelby
Toomer, Jean
Walker, Alice
Walker, Joseph A.
Washington, Booker T.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B.
West, Cornel
Wheatley, Phillis
Wideman, John Edgar
Williams, John A.
Wilson, August
Wright, Jay
Wright, Richard
Yerby, Frank
Young, Al

Asian American
Ai
Alexander, Meena
Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra
Bulosan, Carlos
Chin, Frank
Chu, Louis
Hagedorn, Jessica
Hayslip, Le Ly
Hongo, Garrett Kaoru
Hwang, David Henry
Jen, Gish
Jin, Ha
Kadohata, Cynthia Lynn
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kogawa, Joy
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Lau, Evelyn
Law-Yone, Wendy
Lee, Gus
Lee, Li-Young
Mehta, Ved
Min, Anchee
Mukherjee, Bharati
Ng, Fae Myenne
Okada, John
Rosca, Ninotchka
Sidhwa, Bapsi
Song, Cathy
Tan, Amy
Wong, Jade Snow
Yamada, Mitsuye Yasutake
Yamamoto, Hisaye

Jewish American
Antin, Mary
Bellow, Saul
Brown, Rosellen
Cahan, Abraham
Calisher, Hortense
Dworkin, Andrea
Elkin, Stanley
Fierstein, Harvey
Ginsberg, Allen
Greenberg, Joanne
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Kosinski, Jerzy
Kunitz, Stanley
Kushner, Tony
Lerner, Gerda
Malamud, Bernard
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Ozick, Cynthia
Paley, Grace
Piercy, Marge
Potok, Chaim
Rich, Adrienne
Richler, Mordecai
Roth, Henry
Roth, Philip
Rukeyser, Muriel
Schwartz, Delmore
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Wasserstein, Wendy
Wiesel, Elie

Latino/Hispanic
Allende, Isabel
Alvarez, Julia
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Arenas, Reinaldo
Barrio, Raymond
Brito, Aristeo
Burgos, Julia de
Castaneda, Carlos
Castillo, Ana
Cervantes, Lorna Dee
Chávez, Denise Elia
Cisneros, Sandra
Colón, Jesús
Corpi, Lucha
Cruz, Victor Hernández
Dante, Nicholas
Espada, Martín
Ferré, Rosario
Fornes, Maria Irene
Galarza, Ernesto
García, Cristina
García, Lionel G.
Hijuelos, Oscar
Hinojosa, Rolando
Machado, Eduardo
Mohr, Nicholasa
Morales, Alejandro
Ortiz Cofer, Judith
Piñero, Miguel
Ponce, Mary Helen
Rechy, John
Ríos, Alberto
Rivera, Tomás
Rodriguez, Richard
Rodríguez, Abraham, Jr.
Sanchez, Thomas
Sánchez, Luis Rafael
Soto, Gary
Suárez, Virgil
Taylor, Sheila Ortiz
Thomas, Piri
Valdez, Luis Miguel
Villarreal, José Antonio
Villaseñor, Victor
Viramontes, Helena María
Yglesias, José

Native American
Ai
Alexie, Sherman
Allen, Paula Gunn
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Cruz, Victor Hernández
Dorris, Michael
Erdrich, Louise
Hale, Janet Campbell
Harjo, Joy
Harris, Wilson
King, Thomas
Kingsolver, Barbara
McNickle, D'arcy
Momaday, N. Scott
Ortiz, Simon
Owens, Louis
Reed, Ishmael
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Vizenor, Gerald
Walker, Alice
Welch, James