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Maya Angelou 1928–2014Literature & DramaPoet and memoirist whose I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings broke new ground in autobiographical writing.

James Baldwin 1924–1987Literature & DramaEssayist and novelist whose searing explorations of race, sexuality, and identity remain profoundly relevant.

Allen Ginsberg 1926–1997Literature & DramaHowl, Kaddish, and the 1957 obscenity trial

Alice Walker b. 1944Literature & DramaThe first Black woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction, and the writer who recovered Zora Neale Hurston.