In the novel Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the main character goes in search of his family history.

The novel Song of Solomon (1977), by Toni Morrison, contains an allusion to this incident.

She published her first novel Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1992.

(Her last husband, Franz Werfel, wrote the novel "Song of Bernadette" in the house.)

Newton is mentioned in Jodi Picoult's novel Songs of the Humpback Whale.

He also encouraged her "to open up and be reckless," she said, taking chances like portraying a women without a navel in her novel "Song of Solomon."

Her novel Dicey's Song won the 1983 Newbery Medal.

Lisa Ann Sandell's 2007 novel Song of the Sparrow is a retelling of her story.

In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience.

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison used the myth of the flying Africans as the basis for her novel Song of Solomon.