A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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Yaa Gyasi
asha bandele
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tonya Bolden
Tia Williams
John Henrik Clarke
Anthony Browder
Jesmyn Ward
Carmen Bryan
Langston Hughes
Tom Burrell
J. California Cooper
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Eric Jerome Dickey
Victoria Christopher Murray
Barack Obama
Carole Boston Weatherford
Kwame Alexander
Ernest Gaines
Na’im Akbar
Geri Spencer Hunter
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Garcelle Beauvais
Bernice L. McFadden
Jason Reynolds
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Yvonne S. Thornton
Alice Walker
Derrick Bell
Jabari Asim
Maya Angelou
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zane
Taye Diggs
Naleighna Kai
Carter G. Woodson
Donna Drew Sawyer
J. A. Rogers
John Steptoe
Donald Goines
Terrie Williams
Ivan Van Sertima
Walter Mosley
David Covin
Ntozake Shange
George G. M. James
Jawanza Kunjufu
Michael Baisden
Hill Harper
Saul Williams
Floyd Cooper
Amos N. Wilson
E. Lynn Harris
Zora Neale Hurston
Tony Dungy
Michael Eric Dyson
Kevin Y. Brown
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Rita Williams-Garcia
K’wan
Chancellor Williams
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Wade Hudson
Vickie M. Stringer
d. E. Rogers
Iceberg Slim
Michelle Alexander
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Tavis Smiley
Colson Whitehead
Pearl Cleage
Robin Walker
Sapphire
Margot Lee Shetterly
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Edwidge Danticat
Brenda Jackson
Cerece Rennie Murphy
Nikki Giovanni
Nikki Turner
jessica Care moore
JaQuavis Coleman
Joy Deja King
Carleen Brice
Nikki Woods
Shannon Holmes
T. N. Baker
Carl Weber
Toni Morrison
Isabel Wilkerson
Terry McMillan
Martha Kennerson
Sadeqa Johnson
Robert Fleming
Beverly Jenkins
Trice Hickman
Mildred D. Taylor
James Baldwin
O.T. Begho
Lupita Nyong’o
Lerone Bennett
James Earl Hardy
Herb Boyd
Frances Cress Welsing
Crystal Swain-Bates