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Nnedimma Nkemdili "Nnedi" Okorafor // ⓘ (formerly Okorafor-Mbachu; born April 8, 1974) [1] is a Nigerian American writer of science fiction and fantasy for both children and adults. She is best known for her Binti Series and her novels Who Fears Death , Zahrah the Windseeker , Akata Witch , Akata Warrior , Lagoon and Remote Control .
Media based organizations such as blacksci-fi.com, [19] the Black Science Fiction Society, and the State of Black Science Fiction group on Facebook centers creators of Black science fiction and its fandom. Founded in 1999 by Philadelphia native, Maurice Waters, blacksci-fi.com is one of the first media websites created that is dedicated to ...
Nora Keita Jemisin [1] (born September 19, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her fiction includes a wide range of themes, notably cultural conflict and oppression. [2] [3] Her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and the subsequent books in her Inheritance Trilogy received critical acclaim.
Rebecca Parish [1] was born in Conway, Arkansas, in 1971. [2] She was adopted as a child by white parents, and raised in northern Texas. She has said that "being a black and Native kid in Fort Worth in the '70s and '80s was pretty limiting"; thus, she turned to reading and writing, especially science fiction, as a form of escape.
Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (/ d ə ˈ l eɪ n i /, də-LAY-nee; born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic.His work includes fiction (especially science fiction), memoir, criticism, and essays on science fiction, literature, sexuality, and society.
Zane (author) November 28, 1998 For the Love of the Game: My Story: Michael Jordan: October 3, 1999 Yesterday, I Cried: Iyanla Vanzant: January 30, 2000 The Rock Says: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson with Joe Laydon September 24, 2000 Not a Day Goes By: E. Lynn Harris: December 31, 2000 Until Today! Iyanla Vanzant: February 5, 2001 A Day Late and a ...
Perry, who won the National Book Award for nonfiction for her 2022 “South to America,” traces Blackness and the color blue from dyed indigo cloths of West Africa to American blues music to the ...
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 ...