Yaa Gyasi
America's #93 Best-Selling Black Author of 2026
America's #37 Best-Selling Black Author of 2025
America's #38 Best-Selling Black Author of 2024
9-time AALBC.com Bestselling Author
Top 100 AALBC Bestselling Author
Biography
Yaa Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she held a Dean’s Graduate Research Fellowship. Her short stories have appeared in African American Review and Callaloo. Her debut novel, is the Homegoing (Knopf, June 2016).
Two Books by Yaa Gyasi
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