A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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Jerry Craft
Martha Kennerson
Mildred D. Taylor
Michael Baisden
Yvonne S. Thornton
Yaa Gyasi
Ernest Gaines
Tananarive Due
Michelle Alexander
Olive Senior
Carmen Bryan
David Covin
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Adijah & Atiya Brabham
Victoria Christopher Murray
Trice Hickman
Naleighna Kai
John Edgar Wideman
Jawanza Kunjufu
Marita Golden
John Steptoe
Amanda Gorman
D. Amari Jackson
Aaron McGruder
Nikki Woods
Sadeqa Johnson
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Colson Whitehead
Atinuke
Kiki Swinson
Geri Spencer Hunter
J. California Cooper
Carter G. Woodson
Hill Harper
George G. M. James
Terrie Williams
Kevin Y. Brown
jessica Care moore
Lerone Bennett
Langston Hughes
Clarence V. Reynolds
Frances Cress Welsing
Jabari Asim
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Guy Johnson
Na’im Akbar
Angela Johnson
Teri Woods
Misty Copeland
Ibram X. Kendi
Edwidge Danticat
E. Lynn Harris
Herb Boyd
J. A. Rogers
John Henrik Clarke
Kwame Alexander
Toni Morrison
Shannon Holmes
Kevin Powell
Iceberg Slim
Joy Deja King
Ntozake Shange
Keisha Ervin
Floyd Cooper
Donna Drew Sawyer
Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
Percival Everett
Anthony Browder
Tony Dungy
Derrick Barnes
James Baldwin
J.J. Smith
Isabel Wilkerson
Carole Boston Weatherford
Zora Neale Hurston
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Ivan Van Sertima
Tia Williams
John A. Williams
Robert Fleming
Vickie M. Stringer
Ibtihaj Muhammad
Jacqueline Woodson
d. E. Rogers
Tom Burrell
Tiffany Warren
Bebe Moore Campbell
Sapphire
Terry McMillan
Zane
Barack Obama
W.E.B. Du Bois
Innosanto Nagara
T. D. Jakes
Faith Ringgold
Jesmyn Ward
Ijeoma Oluo
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nikki Turner
K’wan
Cedella Marley
Carleen Brice
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Margot Lee Shetterly
Cerece Rennie Murphy