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THE LYRICBOOK COLLECTION The Historic Lyric

Author directory

Meet the authors

Find the writers, artists, and scholars whose work fills these shelves.

98 authors

History writer

Edward E. Baptist

Memoir contributor

Elaine DePrince

Artist and author

Faith Ringgold

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Music writer

Francis Davis

Poet and educator

Frank X Walker

Appalachia · Kentucky

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Abolitionist and memoirist

Frederick Douglass

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Reference editor

Gerald L. Smith

Kentucky · Lexington

Memoir contributor

Harriet Jacobs

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History writer

Heather Andrea Williams

History writer

Ibram X. Kendi

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Essayist

Imani Perry

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Journalist and author

Isabel Wilkerson

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Novelist and poet

Jacqueline Woodson

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Novelist and essayist

James Baldwin

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History writer

James D. Anderson

History writer

James Edward Smethurst

Biography contributor

James Segrest

Graphic novelist

Jerry Craft

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Novelist and memoirist

Jesmyn Ward

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Reference editor

John A. Hardin

Kentucky

History writer

John Hope Franklin

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Graphic memoir contributor

John Lewis

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History writer

Jonathan Shandell

History writer

Joshua Bloom

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