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• Marcus Major
• Diane McKinney-Whetstone
• Stephanie Perry Moore
• Y. Blak Moore
• Ray Shannon
• Olympia Vernon
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Black History Month Author Roundtable
In honor of Black History Month AuthorsOnTheWeb.com presents a diverse author roundtable featuring 13 popular writers of fiction and nonfiction. Jenoyne Adams, Stanice Anderson, Harriette Cole, Nikki Giovanni, Nalo Hopkinson, Victor LaValle, Benilde Little, Marcus Major, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, Stephanie Perry Moore, Y. Blak Moore, Ray Shannon, and Olympia Vernon discuss how race influences their work, readers who have touched them and the business of being published.
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| Marcus Major |
Marcus Major is the bestselling author of two previous novels, Good Peoples which debuted at #4 on the Blackboard bestseller list and was included in Barnes and Noble's prestigious Discover Great New Writers program, and Four Guys and Trouble, an Essence bestseller. Both were main selections of the Black Expressions Book Club.
Born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he received a degree in literature from Richard Stockton College. Previously a middle school teacher in Newark, New Jersey, he now writes full time and lives in Somerdale, New Jersey.
His work can also be seen in the NAL anthology, Got To Be Real alongside bestselling authors E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey and Colin Channer.
Photo © Jim Belfon, Photo Center of Harlem
Marcus Major's Website
E P Dutton
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| Diane McKinney-Whetstone |
Diane McKinney-Whetstone is the author of the national bestseller Tumbling and Blues Dancing. A native of Philadelphia whose father served two terms as a Pennsylvania stare senator, she grew up in a close-knit family with five sisters and one brother, attending public schools and graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in English. She is a regular contributor to Philadelphia Magazine and her work has appeared in Essence and the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine; She has received numerous awards, including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, Discipline Winner in the Pew Fellowship on the Arts, the Zora Neale flurston Society Award for creative contribution to litera-ture, a Citation from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for her portrayal of urban family life as presented in Tumbling, Author of the Year Award from the national Go On Girl Book Club, and more. She has participated regularly in the intensive Rittenhouse Writer's Workshops and reaches fiction writing at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, Greg, and teenage twins outside Philadelphia.
Diane McKinney-Whetstone's Website
HarperCollins
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| Stephanie Perry Moore |
Stephanie Perry Moore is president of Soul Publishing, Inc., a small press geared towards publishing African-American Christian fiction. Mrs. Moore is the author of Staying Pure and Sober Faith. She lives in the greater Atlanta area with her husband and two daughters.
Walk Worthy Press
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| Y. Blak Moore |
Y. Blak Moore is a poet, social worker, and former gang member who grew up in the Chicago housing projects. He has three children and lives in Chicago. Triple Take is his first novel.
Photo © Tex Straughter
Villard Books
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| Ray Shannon |
Ray Shannon, aka Gar Anthony Haywood, is the Shamus and Anthony Award-winning author of six mystery novels, four featuring African-American private investigator Aaron Gunner, and two recounting the adventures of Joe and Dottie Loudermilk, Airstream-owning crime solvers extraordinaire. His first Gunner mystery, Fear of the Dark, won the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus award for Best First Novel of 1989, while The New York Times called his first Loudermilk mystery, 1994’s Going Nowhere Fast, "a dazzling and hilarious escape." The fifth Aaron Gunner mystery, When Last Seen Alive was published by G. P. Putnam’s Son in 1997.
The critically acclaimed Man Eater will be published by G. P. Putnam’s Son in January 2003. "Life is like the movie business in this lean, funny thriller about a producer scrambling to save her life and career…Read the book before they make the movie," raved Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
Haywood has also written for both The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He lives in Silver Lake, CA with his wife, two daughters and son.
Penguin Putnam
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| Olympia Vernon |
Olympia Vernon is a powerful, fresh voice bursting onto the literary scene, with a highly original debut, Eden (Grove Press; $23, cloth; January 29, 2003). Vernon, much like her protagonist Maddy Dangerfield, learns great lessons from the women that came before her, and some of here lessons come from the likes of Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston.
The fourth of seven children, Vernon grew-up in a southern town on the borders of Louisiana and Mississippi. At twenty-nine-years-old, she has received an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from Southeastern Louisiana State. She has been granted the Matt Clark Memorial Scholarship twice and, was nominated for the Robert O. Butler Award in Fiction in 2002.
Grove Press
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