... 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, playwrights and ... his career as one of America's astounding poets with his first collection called Southern Road in 1932. Brown paved his way into the continually growing list of African American writers and scholars when he continued to write, coming out with a fiction (The Negro in American ...

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