Category:American writers facts for kids

• American writers by state

A

• African American writers
• American comics writers
• American science fiction writers
• American autobiographers

C

• American children's writers

F

• American feminist writers

H

• American historians

J

• Jewish American writers
• American journalists

N

• American novelists

P

• American playwrights
• American poets
• American political writers

S

• American screenwriters
• American songwriters

T

• American television writers

A

• A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
• Abdullah H. Abdur-Razzaq
• Adam Clayton Powell Sr.
• Albert Cleage
• Albert R. Lyman
• Allen Willis
• Ani Kalayjian
• Anice Potter Terhune
• Anna Arnold Hedgeman
• Antha Minerva Virgil
• Armand Lanusse
• Augustus Gabriel de Vivier Tassin
• Ayn

B

• Barbara Ann Teer
• Bevy Smith
• Bianca Williams (anthropologist)
• Booker T. Washington

C

• C. J. Henderson
• Chandler Owen
• Charles Wheeler Denison
• Chief Tahachee
• Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
• Cyril Briggs

D

• Danica McKellar
• David Brown
• David Crosthwait
• Dom DeLuise
• Dorothy Lavinia Brown

E

• Edith Wire
• Elise Fellows White
• Elizabeth Lowe Watson
• Ellen Tarry
• Elsie Roxborough
• Ernest Angell
• Esau Jenkins
• Ewuare Osayande

F

• Frances Turgeon Wiggin

G

• George Makana Clark
• Georgiana M. Blankenship
• Georgiana Simpson
• Gertrude Schalk

H

• Harold Cruse
• Harry Dolan
• Hazel Ghazarian Skaggs
• Helen Wing
• Hildrus Poindexter
• Hoyt W. Fuller
• Rameck Hunt

J

• J. Lilian Vandevere
• James D. Corrothers
• James Forman
• James McCune Smith
• James McEachin
• James Ohio Pattie
• George Jenkins (dentist)
• Jerry Andrus
• Joey Manley
• John A. Williams
• John H. Murphy Sr.
• John Marrant
• Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
• Josephine Bond Hebron
• Josephine Trott

K

• Karla F.C. Holloway
• Kenny Williams (educator)

L

• Lawrence Kip

M

• Margaret Sloan-Hunter
• Marie Townsend
• Mary Church Terrell
• Mary Miller
• Mary Wright (designer)
• Rena McLeary
• Michael Shea (writer)
• Mildred Weston
• Molly Idle

P

• Patti Webster
• Paul Winchell
• Percy Johnston

R

• Richard Bruce Nugent
• Richard S. Rust
• Robert Lewis (director)
• Robert Russa Moton
• Ryan N. Dennis

S

• Salamishah Tillet
• Sarah Louise Delany
• Shay Youngblood
• Shel Silverstein
• Sheyann Webb
• Sibley Miller
• Susan McKinney Steward

T

• Thomas James (minister)
• Tony Langston
• Travis Hunter (writer)

V

• Véra Nabokov
• Véra Nabokova

W

• Walter Everette Hawkins
• William H. McNeill
• William Pickens
• William Rounseville Alger
• William Thomas Hamilton (frontiersman)

Y

• Yechiel Eckstein

Z

• Zara Wright