A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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John Henrik Clarke
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Derrick Barnes
Marita Golden
Bill Pinkney
Na’im Akbar
Jacqueline Woodson
Tonya Bolden
Claud Anderson
d. E. Rogers
Carole Boston Weatherford
T. N. Baker
Beverly Jenkins
Crystal Swain-Bates
Misty Copeland
April Sinclair
Octavia Butler
Amanda Gorman
Cerece Rennie Murphy
John Edgar Wideman
Yvonne S. Thornton
Barack Obama
Donald Goines
asha bandele
Nikki Giovanni
Keisha Ervin
Ibi Zoboi
O.T. Begho
J. California Cooper
Garcelle Beauvais
JaQuavis Coleman
Sadeqa Johnson
James Earl Hardy
Mechal Renee Roe
Ijeoma Oluo
Mary Monroe
Isabel Wilkerson
Nkechi Taifa
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Floyd Cooper
Eric Jerome Dickey
Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Kiki Swinson
Aaron McGruder
John A. Williams
Carter G. Woodson
bell hooks
Michelle Alexander
Tom Burrell
Edwidge Danticat
Langston Hughes
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Hill Harper
Kwame Alexander
Bernice L. McFadden
Kevin Y. Brown
Colson Whitehead
Tia Williams
Saul Williams
Vashti Harrison
Cornel West
Naleighna Kai
Nikki Woods
Michael Baisden
Walter Mosley
Shannon Holmes
Kadir Nelson
Derrick Bell
Victoria Christopher Murray
Rita Williams-Garcia
Anthony Browder
Ernest Gaines
Ibram X. Kendi
Teri Woods
Carmen Bryan
Carl Weber
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Olive Senior
J.J. Smith
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Richard Wright
Leonce Gaiter
Brit Bennett
Tiffany Warren
Tavis Smiley
Nikki Grimes
Karrine Steffans
Tony Dungy
Terrie Williams
Wahida Clark
J. A. Rogers
Kelly Starling Lyons
Jawanza Kunjufu
Cheryl Willis Hudson
Atinuke
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Trice Hickman
T. D. Jakes
Innosanto Nagara
Ann Petry
Ntozake Shange
Jericho Brown
Lerone Bennett
Daniel Black