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Black Novelists


Family and Relationships

Tajuana Butler

Eric Jerome Dickey

Bebe Moore Campbell

La Jill Hunt

Marita Golden

Margaret Johnson-Hodge

Sandra Kitt

Mary B. Morrison

Terry McMillan

Evelyn Palfrey

Kayla Perrin

Martha Southgate

Omar Tyree

Historical Fiction

Connie Briscoe

Anita Richmond Bunkley

Alex Haley

Edward P. Jones

Toni Morrison

Caryl Phillips

Lalita Tademy

Literary

Stephen L. Carter

Pearl Cleage

David Anthony Durham

Edwidge Danticat

Percival Everett

James McBride

Edward P. Jones

Paule Marshall

Toni Morrison

Gloria Naylor

ZZ Packer

Caryl Phillips

Lalita Tademy

Alice Walker

Colson Whitehead

 Mystery

Eleanor Taylor Bland

Stephen L. Carter

Grace F. Edwards

Barbara P. Fleming

Gar Anthony Haywood

Angela Henry

Yolanda Jo

Barbara Neely

Hugh Holton

Walter Mosley

Valerie Wilson Wesley

Paula Woods

Romance

Rochelle Alers

Angela Benson

Deisdre Berry

Rosalyn Carrington

Bette Ford

Gwen Forster

Brenda Hampton

Donna Hill

Beverly Jenkins

Brenda Jackson

Mary B. Morrison

Monique Patterson

Francis Ray

Kimberla Lawson Roby

Zane

Urban Fiction

Chris Abani

Michael Baisden

Tracy Brown

Wahida Clark

J. California Cooper

E. Lynn Harris

Donald Goines

Angel Hunnter

Keith Lee Johnson

Relentless Aaron

Sister Soujah

Vickie Stringer

Nikki Turner

Nichele Walker

Carl Weber

John Wideman


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