📚 Afro-american Authors

Books with afro-american authors on their catalogue record, first published between 1760 and 1997, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject afro-american authors in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 504 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Black poets	Dudley Randall	1971	18
	Joggin' erlong	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1906	15
	American Negro poetry	Arna Bontemps	1963	14
	A narrative of the sufferings and deliverance of Briton Hammon	Briton Hammon	1760	13
	Howdy, honey, howdy	Paul Laurence Dunbar	1905	11
	Negro orators and their orations	Carter Godwin Woodson	1925	9
	The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970	Langston Hughes	1949	8
	Shadow and act	Ralph Ellison	1964	8
	Black Fire	Amiri Baraka	1968	8
	Brotherman	Herb Boyd	1995	7
	Afro-American writers	Darwin T. Turner	1970	6
	Black American literature	Roger Whitlow	1973	6
	Black women writers at work	Claudia Tate	1983	6
	Wounds of passion	Bell Hooks	1997	6
	Black on black	Arnold Adoff	1968	5
	Black voices from prison	Etheridge Knight	1970	5
	The Poetry of Black America	Arnold Adoff	1973	5
	The Negro caravan	Sterling Allen Brown	1941	4
	Soulscript	June Jordan	1970	4
	Black Writers and the American Civil War	Richard A. Long	1988	4
	Black heroes	Errol Hill	1989	4
	Talking at the gates	James Campbell	1991	4
	James Baldwin	David Adams Leeming	1994	4
	A decade of Negro self-expression	Alain LeRoy Locke	1928	3
	Soon, one morning	Hill, Herbert	1963	3
	The new Black poetry	Clarence Major	1969	3
	Soulscript	June Jordan	1970	3
	The unfinished quest of Richard Wright	Fabre, Michel.	1973	3
	Black autobiography in America	Stephen Butterfield	1974	3
	Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes letters, 1925-1967	Arna Bontemps	1980	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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