Category : The Word – Media

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...

A Rising Literary Voice Bridging Cultures and Histories Yaa Gyasi, born in 1989 in Mampong, Ghana, is a celebrated Ghanaian-American novelist whose work has garnered...

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...

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...

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...

Frances E.W. Harper, in full Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, née Frances Ella Watkins, (born September 24, 1825, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died February 22, 1911, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania),...