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Beverly Jenkins (born 1951, Detroit) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels with a particular focus on 19th-century African American life. [1] Jenkins was a 2013 NAACP Image Award nominee and, in 1999, was voted one of the Top 50 Favorite African American writers of the 20th century by the African American ...
In 2019, Ryan was the first Black author to receive the RITA Award [4] by the Romance Writers of America for Best Contemporary Romance for her novel "Long Shot," a recognition considered one of the highest honors in the romance writing community. [6] [7] The novel was inspired by the domestic violence incidents around football player Ray Rice. [8]
Roseanne A. Brown (born 1995), writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction; Sterling A. Brown (1901–1989), poet, literary critic, professor, poet laureate of the District of Columbia; William Wells Brown (1814–1884), wrote first novel published by an African American, Clotel (1853) Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) Ashley Bryan ...
Harriet E. Wilson (March 15, 1825 – June 28, 1900) was an African-American novelist.She was the first African American to publish a novel in North America.. Her novel Our Nig, or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black was published anonymously in 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, and was not widely known.
Brenda Jackson (born February 2, 1953) is an American novelist who writes contemporary multicultural romance novels. She was the first African-American author to have a novel published as part of the Silhouette Desire line, and has seen many of her novels reach The New York Times and USAToday bestsellers lists. Jackson reached a milestone in ...
21st-century African-American women writers (589 P) H. Zora Neale Hurston (2 C, 5 P) J. African-American women journalists (1 C, 210 P) M. African-American women ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:20th-century African-American writers. It includes African-American writers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Notable novelists who specialise or specialised in writing romance novels include: [note 1 A. Laura Abbot [1] Hailey Abbott; Shana ...