The Most Frequently
Featured Authors in the
CLA Journal

portraits of authors James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Richard Wright.

Since 1957, the College Language Association (CLA) Journal has published thousands of scholarly articles. James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright are among the most frequently featured novelists in the journal.

Those six novelists were featured in 230 different articles, published since the 1960s.

With 68 scholarly articles, Richard Wright has been a featured author more than any other writer in the CLA Journal.

During the 1970s, Ralph Ellison and Jean Toomer were the most featured authors.

Then, during the 1980s, Ellison, Morrison, and Wright were the most featured.

Wright and Hurston were the most featured authors during the 1990s.

Wright and Morrison were the most featured authors during the 2000s.

During the 2010s, Morrison was the most featured author.

The scholarly articles were produced by 207 different scholars. Only 6 of the articles were co-authored.