The earliest depictions of black speech came from works written in the eighteenth century, primarily by white authors. A notable exception is "Clotel" (1853), the first novel written by an African American (William Wells Brown). Depictions have largely been restricted to dialogue and the first novel written entirely in AAVE was June Jordan's "His Own Where" (1971), though Alice Walker's epistolary novel "The Color Purple" is a much more widely known work written entirely in AAVE. Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play "A Raisin in the Sun" also has near exclusive use of AAVE. The poetry of Langston Hughes uses AAVE extensively.