A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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Trice Hickman
Jerry Craft
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Carole Boston Weatherford
Brenda Jackson
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Beverly Jenkins
Alice Walker
Zane
Kwei Quartey
Frances Cress Welsing
Carleen Brice
JaQuavis Coleman
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Garcelle Beauvais
Michael Eric Dyson
Anthony Browder
Nikki Turner
Martha Kennerson
George G. M. James
Nikki Woods
Bebe Moore Campbell
Geri Spencer Hunter
Eric Jerome Dickey
Ijeoma Oluo
Na’im Akbar
Yaa Gyasi
Amos N. Wilson
Cerece Rennie Murphy
John Edgar Wideman
Robin Walker
Rita Williams-Garcia
Jesmyn Ward
Lerone Bennett
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Marita Golden
Floyd Cooper
Ntozake Shange
Ai Ogawa
Mechal Renee Roe
Herb Boyd
Leonce Gaiter
Walter Mosley
Timothy George
Amanda Gorman
E. Lynn Harris
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Jawanza Kunjufu
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Brit Bennett
Misty Copeland
Donald Goines
Terrie Williams
Nikki Giovanni
Tonya Bolden
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Maya Angelou
Pearl Cleage
Malaika Adero
Kiki Swinson
O.T. Begho
Jason Reynolds
J.J. Smith
Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
James McBride
T. N. Baker
Shannon Holmes
Crystal Swain-Bates
Virginia Hamilton
Tavis Smiley
Victoria Christopher Murray
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Octavia Butler
Hill Harper
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Saul Williams
James Baldwin
Carl Weber
Tananarive Due
Guy Johnson
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jerdine Nolen
Derrick Barnes
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Cedella Marley
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Iceberg Slim
James Earl Hardy
Aaron McGruder
Atinuke
Angela Johnson
Keisha Ervin
Jacqueline Woodson
M. D. Williams
J. A. Rogers
Isabel Wilkerson
Derrick Bell
Ivan Van Sertima
Ernest Gaines
Kadir Nelson
Adijah & Atiya Brabham
April Sinclair
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Robert Fleming
Nkechi Taifa