Who is Your favoite Novelist?

Who is your favorite novelist? I can't pick one myself since the most I've ever read of any one writer is four novels, and there are only two writers of whose body of work I've read four (i.e. W. E. B DuBoies, Jacob U. Grodon).

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[saraphen]

I have several favorites: Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Walter Mosley, and Tananarive Due.

[JamieC]

I like Alice Walker, Terry McMillan, Mary Monroe, and Gail Perry-Mason. Those are just a few because there's so many great writers.

[jacqui]

I have to say I have many but Octavia Butler is my favorite.

[Rashid]

Octavia Butler is GREAT!

I also like Paul Beatty, and ME!

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[elishadp]

I'd have to go with Gloria Naylor and Tina Ansa.

Book Description
In exceptionally close analyses of six novels by black writer Oscar Micheaux, Young traces the development of Micheaux's racial theories and of his stance as apologist for American imperialism. Young argues that these novels are examples of the detrimental effect of oppressive myths on early 20th-century black behavior and values. The characters in the novels tend to mirror the black stereotypes of the post-bellum confederate romanticists, both the "Cavalier racists" and the "Negrophobes." Adopting the world view of the oppressor required that Micheaux reject both his own blackness and that of his racial kinsmen.

more info:

Decoding The History Of Black Mysteries
Spooks, Spies, And Private Eyes

SPOOKS, SPIES, AND PRIVATE EYES :
Black Mystery, Crime, And Suspense Fiction Of The 20th Century**
1995

Edited By Paula L. Woods
Doubleday Hardcover
ISBN : 0-385-47827-5
Main Street Books Trade Paperback
ISBN : 0-385-47955-7

SPOOKS, SPIES, AND PRIVATE EYES brings together for the first time a collection of the best mystery and crime fiction by black authors from around the world—much of it long out of print, generally unavailable, or not previously published.

more info:

Black Gold, Red Death
by David Lindsey
Published by Fawcett Books
Paperback, 248pages
ISBN: 0-449-13121

Because this book was a paperback original...and because I was a first-time novelist...and because it came out simultaneously with A Cold Mind, a book that kicked up a considerable amount of dust at the time...Black Gold/Red Death was never reviewed. It became one of the myriads of books that are annually lost in the vast continent of book publishing.

But it didn't disappear. It's still in print. Still selling

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