Across
- 7. Black Feeling poet
- 8. Colored People memoir
- 10. Things Fall Apart
- 11. Fences playwright
- 13. Invisible Man writer
- 14. Pulitzer poet
- 15. Sister Outsider writer
- 19. bois Souls of Black Folk
- 22. Color Purple author
- 23. Raisin playwright
- 25. Homegoing author
Down
- 1. Their Eyes author
- 2. Native Son author
- 3. Soul on Ice author
- 4. Between the World and Me
- 5. Beloved author
- 6. Harlem Renaissance poet
- 9. Women of Brewster Place
- 12. Black Arts Movement
- 16. Slave narrative writer
- 17. Topdog playwright
- 18. Caged Bird poet
- 20. Go Tell It author
- 21. Bronzeville poet
- 24. Kindred sci-fi author