List of African-American Writers - R

R

• Aishah Rahman, playwright
• Alice Randall
• Dudley Randall
• Francis Ray, fiction, romance, mainstream,women's fiction
• Andy Razaf
• Ishmael Reed (born 1938), poet, essayist and novelist
• Willis Richardson (1889–1977), playwright
• Carolyn Rodgers, poet
• Octavia V. Rogers Albert
• Al Roker
• Fran Ross
• Carl Hancock Rux poet, essayist, playwright, novelist