... , Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Frances Harper. The 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 Drama in 1937. Brown became an editor, professor and mentor to other well-known African American's before he died of leukemia in 1989. A poet, novelist, play writer, and artist, Jean ...

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