Across
- 2. Chuck Berry's genre
- 4. James Baldwin author
- 5. Octavia Butler novel
- 6. Horror genre
- 10. Treasured stories
- 11. Chester Himes work
- 12. Toni Morrison work
- 16. Magical realism
- 20. Leroy Jones drama
- 23. James Baldwin novel
- 24. James Weldon Johnson
- 25. Subgenre in literature
Down
- 1. Langston Hughes poetry
- 3. Gwendolyn Brooks poem
- 7. 20th-century poet
- 8. 20th-century author
- 9. Butler sci-fi novel
- 13. Literary jazz poet
- 14. Poet's muse
- 15. Nat Turner author
- 17. Baldwin essay collection
- 18. Black American tales
- 19. Toni Morrison essay
- 21. Tar Baby writer
- 22. Solomon Northup memoir