Black authors

Here's a roundup of black autobiographies. This list contributes to my ongoing bibliographies. It's no doubt a partial list.

1845:Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick Douglass
1849:Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brownby Henry Box Brown
1853:Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
1855:My Bondage and My Freedomby Frederick Douglass
1860:Running a thousand Miles for Freedomby William and Ellen Craft
1861:Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girlby Harriet Jacobs
1901:Up From Slaveryby Booker T. Washington
1940:The Big Seaby Langston Hughes
1942:Dust Tracks on a Roadby Zora Neale Hurston
1945:Black Boyby Richard Wright

1965:The Autobiography of Malcolm Xas told to Alex Haley
1965:Manchild in the Promised Landby Claude Brown
1968: Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
1968:Soul on Iceby Eldridge Cleaver
1969: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
1970: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells
1971:Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical being a Black Poetby Nikki Giovanni
1973:Revolutionary Suicideby Huey P. Newton
1974:Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Davis
1974: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

1976: Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Maya Angelou
1981: The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
1982:Zami: a New Spelling of my Nameby Audre Lorde
1983:The Autobiography of LeRoi Jonesby Amiri Baraka
1986: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes by Maya Angelou
1987: Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
1992: A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Storyby Elaine Brown
1994:Colored People: a Memoirby Henry Louis Gates, Jr
1994: Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in Americaby Nathan McCall
1995: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama

1996:Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kinby Deborah McDowell
1996: Bone Black: Memories of Girlhoodby bell hooks
1997:Speaking Truth to Powerby Anita Hill
2002: A Song Flung Up To Heavenby Maya Angelou
2006: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
2008: The Beautiful Struggleby Ta-Nehisi Coates
2010: Decoded by Jay-Z
2013: Mom & Me & Momby Maya Angelou
2013:Buck: A Memoir by MK Asante
2013: Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

2014:Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemptionby Bryan Stevenson
2015: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015: The Light of the Worldby Elizabeth Alexander
2015: Brother Hollis: The Sankofa of a Movement Manby Hollis Watkins with C. Liegh McInnis
2015: Negrolandby Margo Jefferson
2017:Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Bodyby Roxane Gay
2017: Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice
2018: Becoming by Michelle Obama
2018: Heavy: An American Memoirby Kiese Laymon
2019: Breathe: A Letter to My Sonsby Imani Perry
2019: Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forwardby Valerie Jarrett

Related:
• Chronological List of 33 Slave Narratives
• A partial timeline of memoirs & autobiographies by black menby Jeremiah Carter
• A checklist of book lists