A Beautiful Collage of Our Top 100 Bestselling Authors

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Zora Neale Hurston
M. D. Williams
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Donald Goines
Angela Johnson
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Malaika Adero
O.T. Begho
Iceberg Slim
John Steptoe
Ntozake Shange
Misty Copeland
George G. M. James
Octavia Butler
bell hooks
jessica Care moore
Walter Mosley
Richard Wright
Nikki Grimes
Aaron McGruder
Carmen Bryan
Anthony Browder
Yaa Gyasi
Rita Williams-Garcia
Clarence V. Reynolds
T. D. Jakes
Timothy George
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Jesmyn Ward
Carl Weber
Bebe Moore Campbell
April Sinclair
Mildred D. Taylor
Zane
Iyanla Vanzant
Shannon Holmes
Michael Eric Dyson
Atinuke
asha bandele
Michael Baisden
Kadir Nelson
Kwei Quartey
John A. Williams
Alicia D. Williams
Carleen Brice
Joy Deja King
Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Ann Petry
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Sapphire
Derrick Bell
Kiki Swinson
Mechal Renee Roe
Cornel West
Ai Ogawa
Robert Fleming
Claud Anderson
Martha Kennerson
Tony Dungy
Nkechi Taifa
Alice Walker
Terrie Williams
Maya Angelou
Michelle Alexander
Langston Hughes
Pearl Cleage
James Earl Hardy
Ijeoma Oluo
Olive Senior
Sadeqa Johnson
Colson Whitehead
Hill Harper
Natasha Anastasia Tarpley
Taye Diggs
Daniel Black
Barack Obama
Kwame Alexander
Bernice L. McFadden
James Baldwin
JaQuavis Coleman
Jason Reynolds
Yvonne S. Thornton
Toni Morrison
Brit Bennett
Chancellor Williams
J. California Cooper
Marita Golden
Kelly Starling Lyons
Nikki Giovanni
Virginia Hamilton
Jawanza Kunjufu
Edwidge Danticat
Wahida Clark
Amos N. Wilson
Gayl Jones
Kevin Powell
Floyd Cooper
Nikki Woods
Jerry Craft
Teri Woods
d. E. Rogers
Herb Boyd
Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
Lerone Bennett