Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 48 Rita Dove 48 Gwendolyn Brooks 47 Amiri Baraka 44 Nikki Giovanni 44 Cynthia Ozick 44 Ralph Ellison 42 Toni Morrison 42 Jonathan Lethem 40 Maya Angelou 40 Zora Neale Hurston 40 TC Boyle 39 Edwidge Danticat 39 essayist 39 Tobias Wolff 39 author Toni Morrison 38 Nadine Gordimer 38 Joyce Carol Oates 38 Sarah Vowell 37 William Styron 37 EL Doctorow 37 poet Maya Angelou 37 Allen Ginsberg 37 Scott Turow 37 Langston Hughes 37 Gabriel García Márquez 36 Novelist 36 Cornel West 36 Anna Deavere Smith 36 WEB DuBois 36 Melba Moore 36 Def Poetry Jam 36 Gertrude Stein 35 Studs Terkel 35 Carlos Fuentes 35 Bluest Eye 35 wordsmith 35 Garry Wills 35 poet Langston Hughes 35 Anna Quindlen 35 abolitionist Frederick Douglass 35 Dr. Cornel 35 Calvin Trillin 35 Armistead Maupin 35 MC Lyte 35 Marianne Williamson 34 Wynton Marsalis 34 Harriet Beecher Stowe 34 Kurt Vonnegut 34 Bestselling author 34 David Sedaris 34 Billie Holiday 34 Jane Smiley 34 Iris Murdoch 34 Oliver Sacks 33 R. Emmett Tyrrell 33 Anne Lamott 33 Harlem Renaissance 33 literary critic 33 foreword 33 Margaret Atwood 33 Benjamin Hooks 33 Erica Jong 33 Oft 33 Julian Bond 32 Barbara Kingsolver 32 Chinua Achebe 32 Salman Rushdie 32 Wally Lamb 31 Kirk Whalum 31 Judy Blume 31 Isabel Allende 31 Doris Kearns Goodwin 31 Joan Didion 31 Flannery O'Connor 31 Fannie Lou Hamer 31 ee cummings 31 Eudora Welty 31 Pablo Neruda 31 Walt Whitman 31 Reinhold Niebuhr 31 abolitionist 31 DuSable Museum 31 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel 31 Michael Beschloss 31 Archbishop Desmond Tutu 31 Bill Cosby 31 Malcolm X. 30 WEB Du Bois 30 Malcolm X 30 host Tavis Smiley 30 Jhumpa Lahiri 30 Shel Silverstein 30 Mark Twain 30 Past honorees 30 Cicely Tyson 30 Sweet Honey 30 Marian McPartland 30 Seamus Heaney 29 Huey Newton 29 Desmond Tutu 29 novelist Toni Morrison