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Influential Black Writers and Poets

Test your knowledge of the groundbreaking Black authors and poets who have left an indelible mark on literature and history.0 takes
by @triviagang_dataUpdated 2d ago

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  • 01James Baldwin's influential 1963 collection of essays on race in America is titled...?
  • 02Which author wrote the acclaimed 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"?
  • 03Langston Hughes was a central figure in which major African-American cultural movement of the 1920s?
  • 04Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988 for which novel about a former slave haunted by her past?
  • 05Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 masterpiece novel, a cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance, is titled...?
  • 06Richard Wright's powerful 1940 novel about systemic racism and a young Black man named Bigger Thomas is called...?
  • 07Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for which epistolary novel?
  • 08In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for what work of poetry?
  • 09Ralph Ellison won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1953 for which landmark novel?
  • 10What is the title of Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking 1959 play, the first by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway?
  • 11W.E.B. Du Bois introduced the concept of "double consciousness" in which of his seminal 1903 works?
  • 12Octavia E. Butler is a celebrated, multiple award-winning author primarily in which literary genre?
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