BHM Week 2: Literature

What Howard graduate won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993?

• Alice Walker

• Octavia E. Butler

• Toni Morrison

• Maya Angelou

What author wrote the book "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and their essay collection "Notes of a Native Son?"

• Frederick Douglas

• James Baldwin

• Langston Hughes

• Ralph Ellison

This author was a Civil Rights Activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X and wrote their famous book about their life up to the age of 17?

• Alice Walker

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Toni Morrison

• Maya Angelou

Which famous Anacostia resident (in their later years) wrote this famous quote, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress?

• Langston Hurston

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Frederick Douglas

• Booker T. Washington

What Liberty of Congress Prize for American Fiction author wrote "Sing, Unburied, Sing?"

• Jesmyn Ward

• Jacqueline Woodson

• J. California Cooper

• Toni Cade Bambara

What writer won a two Pulitzer Prizes for their novels: The Underground Railroad & The Nickel Boys?

• Colson Whitehead

• Paul Beatty

• James McBride

• Ta-Nehisi Coates

Who wrote the book "Becoming?"

• Maya Angelou

• Michelle Obama

• Oprah Winfrey

• Alice Walker

BONUS QUESTION:

This comic writer wrote the series The Black Panther (6^th Vol) and Captain American (9^th Vol) & wrote the book "Between the World and Me?" 

• Colson Whitehead

• Paul Beatty

• James McBride

• Ta-Nehisi Coates