Books have the ability to heal and transform. As the country combats politically and racially driven book bans, it only becomes more clear how truly powerful a novel can be. It can inspire a reader to ...

Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s Author Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 ...

Calling all bookworms! The Sharjah Festival of African Literature will take place from Friday, Jan. 24 to Monday, Jan. 27 at ...

US author Colson Whitehead has become only the fourth writer ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. The African-American author was honoured for The Nickel Boys, which chronicles the ...

“I’m an African-American author, yes, and a Jewish-American author, yes — both. To put the Jew of color entry into Jewish American fiction.” JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time ...

He is now working on his next project, tentatively titled Creating Our Own Internal Weather Through Literature, which examines how Americans construct competing notions of home, through the fiction of ...

Nelson is a CNN Legal & Political commentator, a USA Today opinion writer, and an award-winning journalist and the author of three non-fiction books.Sophia was the first African American woman to ...