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Urban Books is a book publisher specializing in African-American topics, founded and published by Carl Weber in 2002. Imprints [ edit ] Urban Soul (women's fiction, a joint venture with Kensington Books )
2000–present. Carl Weber (born 1964) is an American author, publisher, television writer and producer. He owns Urban Books, a publishing company, and formerly owned Urban Knowledge, a chain of bookstores. [1][2] His mystery novels were adapted into films The Man in 3B (2015), The Preacher's Son (2017), The Choir Director (2018) and Influence ...
Kenyatta series (Crime Partners, Death List, Kenyatta's Escape, Kenyatta's Last Hit) Black Gangster. Dopefiend. Never Die Alone. Whoreson. Donald Goines (pseudonym: Al C. Clark; December 15, 1936 – October 21, 1974) was an African-American writer of urban fiction. [1] His novels were deeply influenced by the work of Iceberg Slim.
Teri Woods. Teri Woods (born March 8, 1968) is an American novelist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] and a successful, self-published pioneer of the urban fiction genre. [2] Woods finished writing her first novel, True to the Game, in 1992 while working at a law firm in Philadelphia. [3] She spent six years submitting the work to numerous ...
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born 1954), political activist and journalist. Linda Addison (born 1952), author and poet. Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author and creative writing coach. Ai, aka Ai Ogawa, birth name Florence Anthony (1947–2010), poet, NBA for poetry, 1999. Rochelle Alers (born 1943), author and artist. Elizabeth Alexander (born 1962), poet ...
January 19, 1982 (age 42) Oakland, California, U.S. Occupation. Writer. Education. Institute of American Indian Arts (BS, MFA) Tommy Orange (born January 19, 1982) is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California. His first book, There There (2018), was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize [1] and received the 2019 American Book Award.
This is a list of novelists from the United States, listed with titles of a major work for each. This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition ...
The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with A: Abbreviations: ch = children's; d = drama, screenwriting; f = fiction; nf = non-fiction; p ...