February is Black History Month
February is Black History Month and Ohio is honored to claim several prominent black
writers as native sons and daughters. Read some special tributes to a few black Ohioans who have made an impact on the American literature and arts
Charles Chesnutt
Charles Waddell Chesnutt is featured on the 31st postage stamp in the Black Heritage series. Chesnutt, a pioneering African-American turn-of-the-century social realism writer, was born in Cleveland OH
Rita Dove
Ohioana Authors Radio Series sketch on poet Rita Dove, born in Akron, a graduate of Buchtel High School in Akron and
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Reluctant Heir: An essay by Herbert Woodward Martin about poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, native of Dayton OH.
Nikki Giovanni
Ohioana Authors Radio Series sketch on poet Nikki Giovanni who spent most of her childhood in suburbs outside Cincinnati.
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Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton: Her Influence, Her Words, Her Love: An essay by Jaime Adoff about childen's author Virginia Hamilton, Yellow Springs native and Dayton OH resident.
Wil Haygood
Ohioana Authors Radio Series sketch on author Wil Haygood, born in Columbus, a graduate of Franklin Heights High School in Columbus and
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
James Langston Hughes
Known as the "Poet Laureate of Harlem," James Langston Hughes is a graduate of Central High in Cleveland.
Angela Johnson
Ohioana Authors Radio Series sketch on children's author Angela Johnson who grew up in Windham, Ohio and resides in Kent.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison and a Fiction Writer’s Map of Ohio: An essay on the landscape of a writer’s life.
Ohioana Library's List of all Ohio
Black Authors
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