Firsts in Literature Answers
- (d) Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a volume of poetry.
- (e) William Wells Brown wrote the first novel to be published by an African-American?
- (a) Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American poet to receive national recognition.
- (h) The Conjure Man Dies was the first mystery novel written by an African-American.
- (g) Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
- (f) Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize.
- (b) Rita Dove was the nation's first African-American Poet Laureate.
- (c) Toni Morrison was the first African-American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- (I) Richard Wright was the African-American author whose first novel was chosen for the Book-of-the-Month selection.
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