Writers Worth Reading

 

Camille Acker

Hilton Als

Tina McElroy Ansa

Lesley Nneka Arimah

Paul Beatty

Rick Bragg

Sarah M. Broom

Kalisha Buckhanon

Alexander Chee

Sandra Cisneros

Pearl Cleage

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Paulo Coelho

Teju Cole

Naima Coster

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Leesa Cross-Smith

Nicole Dennis-Benn

Dave Eggers

Louise Erdrich

Danielle Evans

Angela Flournoy

Roxane Gay

Anissa Gray

John Green

Yaa Gyasi

A.M. Holmes

Samantha Irby

Ha Jin

Naomi Jackson

Edward P. Jones

Saeed Jones

Sarah Jones

Tayari Jones

Van Jones

Ibram X. Kendi

Jhumpa Lahiri

Ring Lardner

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Imbolo Mbue

Bernice McFadden

Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Janet Mock

Mary Monroe

Toni Morrison

Walter Mosely

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ottessa Moshfegh

Jojo Moyes

Celeste Ng

Elizabeth Nunez

Barack Obama

Michelle Obama

Ben Okri

Ijeoma Oluo

Stewart O’Nan

Tommy Orange

Helen Oyeyemi

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Mary Pipher

Regina Porter

Ishmael Reed

Kiley Reid

Kimberly Lawson Roby

Zadie Smith

Darcey Steinke

Nic Stone

Elizabeth Strout

Amy Tan

Madeleine Thien

Angie Thomas

Jean Thompson

Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Rebecca Walker

Jesmyn Ward

Colson Whitehead

Jacqueline Woodson

Nicola Yoon

Ibi Zobo