African American Male Authors--Who's in Your Fav 10?

In honor of the literary contributions that African American male authors have made, APOOO members decided that we could not wrap up the month without a favorite male author's list. After all we are a literary site and avid readers-so we have a few favorite authors to tell others about.  We brainstormed and came up with approximately 150 male authors!  In honor of Men in Black month, and June having 30 days, we decided to create a list with 30 of our favorite authors-one author representing each day.  We are delighted to present the authors who made our list (listed in alphabetical order):

Michael Baisden

James Baldwin

Colin Channer

Kwame Dawes

Eric Jerome Dickey

WEB Dubois

Michael Eric Dyson

Ralph Ellison

Ernest Gaines

Nelson George

Donald Goines

Alex Haley

Gary Hardwick

E. Lynn Harris

Langston Hughes

Travis Hunter

RM Johnson

Edward P. Jones

James McBride

Nathan McCall

Victor McGlothin

Marcus Major

Brandon Massey

Walter Mosley

C. Kelly Robinson

Tavis Smiley

Omar Tyree

Carl Weber

Richard Wright

Now, we would like to fine-tune our list and we would like for you to help us.  Based upon the list above, a poll has been created and we ask you to help us whittle the list down by voting for your Top 10 Favorite African American male authors.  If one of your favorites isn't listed, feel free to write in the name.  Also, because we want to get as many folks as possible to vote, please tell your friends about the survey.  So that it will be meaningful and newsworthy, ideally I would like to have at least 1000 folks vote!  If I tell ten people and you tell ten people, we should easily exceed this objective.

LET'S GET BUSY-voting and spreading the word so that we can create the Top 10 Favorite African American authors of all-times!  CLICK HERE to vote for your favorite African-American male authors.  Poll will be open until July 7th, 2008 and winners will be announced by July 15th, 2008.