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...
Novelist and feminist campaigner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in 1977 to a middle-class Igbo family in Enugu, Nigeria. Her mother became the first female...
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...
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...
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...
Michael Eric Dyson is a distinguished professor at an Ivy League University; a prolific, award-winning writer of books and articles; a social and cultural critic;...
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...