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Nordette Adams is a poet, fiction writer, journalist, and reluctant literary critic. As a child, she was often chided for reading books with a flashlight after her bedtime. Contact Nordette here.

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300 words on Aberjhani, award-winning book author, poet

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Name: Aberjhani Birthdate: July 8, 1957 Birthplace: Savannah, GA, USA Current Residence: United States of America Marital Status: Seasonal...
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Carleen Brice's Orange Mint and Honey becomes a movie starring Jill Scott

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Novelist Carleen Brice's has been sharing big news. Lifetime Television has optioned her book Orange Mint and Honey to be a movie starring singer,...
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300 words on Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

Name: Alice Malsenior Walker Birthdate: February 9, 1944 Birthplace: Eatonton, Ga. Current Residence: Northern California Marital Status: Divorced...
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300 words on Carl Weber, literary prince of drama

Birthdate: Unclear, born possibly 1966 or 1967Birthplace: Unclear, but considers himself from the Queens borough of NYCCurrent Residence: Long Island,...
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Octavia Butler, Science Fiction Genius

Called a genius in her lifetime, speculative fiction author Octavia Butler won two Hugos and a Nebula, science fiction awards, in the 80s, and the...
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Carleen Brice, novelist, invites non-black readers to read black authors

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Writer Carleen Brice is not only the author of two novels, she is also the owner of the blog White Readers Meet Black Authors. The name alone should...
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Toni Morrison, Nobel Laureate, a brief profile

People who read and love Toni Morrison's novels were not surprised in 1993 when the world recognized her talent, and she won the Nobel Prize in...
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Brenda Jackson, first African-American romance author on NYT Best Sellers List

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Born in the early 1950s in Jacksonville, Fla., Brenda Jackson is the first African-American romance novelist to make the New York Times Best Sellers...
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Ezra Jack Keats, author of books for black children, list 2

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Some people see the title African-American Book Examiner and expect all the book authors discussed to be African-American. It's a logical assumption,...
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Black author Sapphire, her novel Push becomes Precious on big screen this fall

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Sapphire is known as a performance poet, sometimes called a spoken word artist. She is also a novelist, the author of the critically-acclaimed book...
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