Tag: Edward P. Jones

1949: Harper & Brothers publishes the Pulitzer-Prize winning Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks…

Harper & Brothers publishes Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks, which wins the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and makes Brooks the first African American writer to receive the award. More

Rita Williams-Garcia

My childhood reading helped to build me from the inside. More

Rita Williams-Garcia

Journey to Jo’burg

Groundbreaking book set in South Africa during the apartheid era and banned by its government. More

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Kundera’s postmodern masterwork; named one of the best books of 1984 (New York Times Book Review). More

The Corrections

Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. More

The Known World

The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More

Social Change: African American Identity in the U.S.

HarperCollins has published a number of books that explore the racial identity of African Americans during periods of great social conflict. More

The White Tiger

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More

Monster

Winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award and the Coretta Scott King Award. More

Black Boy

A powerful and eloquent autobiography that has sold more than a million copies since publication. More

The Thorn Birds

McCullough’s sweeping family saga of forbidden love in the Australian outback; became a bestselling phenomenon. More

Go Set a Watchman

This newly discovered novel from beloved author Harper Lee became the bestselling book of 2015. More

To Kill a Mockingbird

Much-loved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, voted by librarians across America as the best novel of the twentieth century. More

Geronimo Johnson

I write to unread what has been written about me in error and with malice. More

Geronimo Johnson

The Book of Negroes

A milestone in Canada’s understanding of black history and one of the bestselling books in Canadian publishing history. More

Stride Toward Freedom

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. More

One Hundred Years of Solitude

This landmark of magical realism sparked a wave of interest in Central and South American literature. More

Native Son

Wright’s unsparing reflection on what it means to be black in America. More

The God of Small Things

Winner of the 1997 Man Booker Prize, making Roy the first Indian woman to receive the award. More

The Hours

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award; made into an Oscar-winning film. More

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

This 1972 Booker Prize–nominated novel was also made into a 1978 Australian film. More

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More

Amistad

HarperCollins’s Amistad Press is the oldest imprint devoted to titles for the African American market at any major New York publishing house. More

A People’s History of the United States

Classic national bestseller that made a significant contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history. More

Lawrence Hill

Writing is the one pursuit I have always pursued, and always known I was compelled to pursue. More

Lawrence Hill

Their Eyes Were Watching God

One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More

Original proposal for Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill’s agent, Janet Turnbull Irving, submitted this one-page summary for his as yet unwritten novel Migration to HarperCollins Canada Editor-in-Chief Iris Tupholme in 1998. More