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Nnedi Okorafor

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Nnedimma “Nnedi” Nkemdili Okorafor is a Nigerian-American writer and professor of creative writing at Chicago State University. Okorafor was born in the United States on April...
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Yaa Gyasi

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Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel, Homegoing, published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book...
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James Hannaham

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James Hannaham, writer. Of what? Well, his stories have appeared in The Literary Review, Open City and Nerve, Significant Objects, and One Story. He has...
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James McBride

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James McBride, an African-American journalist and jazz musician, is the author of the best-selling biography of his Jewish mother, The Color of Water (1996). The...
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Tracy K. Smith

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Tracy K. Smith, (born April 16, 1972, Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.), American poet and author whose writing often confronts formidable themes of loss and grief, nascent...
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N. K. Jemisin

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N. K. Jemisin is an author living and writing in Brooklyn, NY. This is fortunate as she enjoys subways, tiny apartments, and long walks through...
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Harriet E. Wilson

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Harriet E. Wilson, néeHarriet E. Adams, (born 1828?, Milford, N.H.?, U.S.—died 1863?, Boston, Mass.?), one of the first African Americans to publish a novel in...