Here is a selected list of American-African authors whose books are available at the Poughkeepsie Public Library District or from the member libraries of the Mid-Hudson Library System. To see the titles we own for a selected author, just click his or her name. You can see if an item is on the shelf at the Library, or you can place a hold on it using the Request-a-Title option.
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Angelou, Maya
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Gaines, Ernest J.
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Parks, Gordon
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Baldwin, James
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Haley, Alex
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Petry, Ann
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Bambara, Toni Cade
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Himes, Chester
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Reed, Ishmael
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Bontemps, Arna W.
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Hughes, Langston
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Robeson, Paul
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Brooks, Gwendolyn
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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Shange, Ntozake
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Brown, Claude
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Johnson, James Weldon
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Toomer, Jean
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Brown, Wesley
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Lester, Julius
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Truth, Sojourner
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Chesnutt, Charles
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Major, Clarence
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Walker, Alice
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Douglass, Frederick
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Marshall, Paule
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West, Dorothy
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Du Bois, W. E. B.
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Morrison, Toni
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Williams, John Alfred
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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Motley, Willard
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Wright, Richard
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Ellison, Ralph
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Poetry
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Angelou, Maya
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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Komunyakaa, Yusef
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Baraka, Imamu Amiri
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Giovanni, Nikki
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Lorde, Audre
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Brooks, Gwendolyn
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Harper, Michael S.
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Major, Clarence
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Brown, Sterling
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Hayden, Robert
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McKay, Claude
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Clifton, Lucille
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Hughes, Langston
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Reed, Ishmael
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Cullen, Countee
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Johnson, James Weldon
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Sanchez, Sonia
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Dove, Rita
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Jones, Gayl
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Walker, Alice
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Du Bois, W. E. B.
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Jordan, June
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Wright, Richard
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Plays
Popular Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Ansa, Tina McElroy
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Hill, Donna
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McKinney-Whetstone, Diane
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Baisden, Michael
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Hill, Ernest
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McKnight, Reginald
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Benson, Angela
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Himes, Chester
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McMillan, Rosalyn
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Berry, Bertice
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Holmes, Shannon
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McMillan, Terry
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Briscoe, Connie
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Hopkinson, Nalo
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Millner, Denene
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Campbell, Bebe Moore
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Jackson, Brian
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Morrison, Mary B.
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Carter, Stephen L.
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Jackson, Brenda
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Morrison, Toni
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Cary, Lorene
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Jackson, Sheneska
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Naylor, Gloria
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Chase-Riboud, Barbara
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Joe, Yolanda
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Packer, ZZ
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Cleage, Pearl
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Johnson, Charles Richard
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Perrin, Kayla
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Cooper, J. California
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Johnson, Guy
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Ray, Francis
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Danticat, Edwidge
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Johnson, R. M.
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Roby, Kimberla
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Darden, Christopher
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Jones, Edward P.
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Sanders, Dori
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DeBerry, Virginia
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Jones, Gayl
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Senna, Danzy
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Dickey, Eric J.
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Jones, Patricia
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Sinclair, April
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Due, Tananarive
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Killens, John Oliver
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Souljah, Sister
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Everett, Percival L
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Kincaid, Jamaica
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Spencer, Camika
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Files, Lolita
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Kitt, Sandra
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Straight, Susan
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Forrest, Leon
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Lamar, Jake
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Tramble, Nichelle
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Forster, Gwynn
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Lee, Darrien
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Tyree, Omar
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Foster, Sharon Ewell
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Little, Benilde
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Walker, Alice
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French, Albert
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Louise, Kim
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Wideman, John Edgar
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Golden, Marita
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McCann, Timmothy B.
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Youngblood, Shay
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Harris, E. Lynn
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McFadden, Bernice
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Zane
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Mystery / Suspense
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Bland, Eleanor T.
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Garland, Ardella
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Walker, Blair
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Carter, Charlotte
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Haywood, Gar Anthony
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Wesley, Valerie Wilson
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Deloach, Nora
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Mosley, Walter
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Woods, Paula L.
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Edwards, Grace
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Neely, Barbara
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Science Fiction / Fantasy
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