"[Hoyt Fuller] was a Black intellectual with near-encyclopedic knowledge of Black literature"
—Kalamu ya Salaam

Hoyt W. Fuller
Editor, Educator, Critic, Author
(1923 - 1981)

Hoyt Fuller was born in Atlanta Georgia in 1923.  He influenced a generation of poets and activists.  Fuller's creation of the Organization of Black American Culture served, among other things, as a writers' collective; Haki R. Madhubuti and Nikki Giovanni were notable participants. 

Fuller edited Negro Digest (published by Ebony and Jet Magazine publisher John Johnson) and his own journal First World.  Fuller taught creative writing and African American literature at several universities including Columbia College, Northwestern University and Cornell University. 

Hoyt W. Fuller was a leading Figure of the Black Arts Movement.

Journey to Africa
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ISBN: 0883780186
Format: Paperback, 96pp
Pub. Date: September 1996
Publisher: Third World Press
 

A candid memoir of an African American's journey to a continent which bears the scares of centuries of oppression. The author looks at Africa head-on, devoid of romanticism.

Related Links

The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
http://authors.aalbc.com/blackartsmovement.htm

Hoyt William Fuller Collection - Atlanta University Center Archives
http://www.auctr.edu/arch/hwf.htm
Hoyt Fuller's papers are deposited at the Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center

Hoyt Fuller Books

Homage to Hoyt Fuller
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Dudley Randall (Editor)

ISBN: 0910296227
Format: Hardcover, 356pp
Pub. Date: January 1984
Publisher: Broadside Press
Age Range: Young Adult
 

 

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