List of African-American Writers - M

M

• Nathaniel Mackey
• Naomi Long Madgett
• Haki R. Madhubuti
• Clarence Major
• Raynetta Manees
• Manning Marable
• John Marrant (1755–1791)
• Paule Marshall
• Hans Massaquoi
• Brandon Massey
• Nathan McCall
• Claude McKay
• Patricia McKissack
• Reginald McKnight
• Terry McMillan
• James Alan McPherson
• Victoria Earle Matthews
• Julian Mayfield
• Louise Meriwether
• Oscar Micheaux
• E. Ethelbert Miller
• May Miller, poet and playwright
• Ronald Milner, playwright
• Mary Monroe
• Anne Moody
• Toni Morrison (born 1931), author, Nobel laureate 1993
• Walter Mosley
• Thylias Moss
• Willard Motley
• Jess Mowry
• Albert Murray
• Pauli Murray
• Walter Dean Myers