... second of the two time periods assigned to African American literature is 20th century, and that would include authors such as Sterling A. Brown, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. All of these novelists ... name of Phillis Wheatley whom was a slave from Boston that had first started writing poetry when she was 14 created the first published book by an African American. In Wheatley's book called Poe...

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