1938: Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection… Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection, Uncle Tom’s Children. More
The Known World The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that examines the troubling complexities of slavery. More
Black Boy A powerful and eloquent autobiography that has sold more than a million copies since publication. More
Geronimo Johnson I write to unread what has been written about me in error and with malice. More Geronimo Johnson
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s masterpiece, and winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. More
Their Eyes Were Watching God One of the most widely read and acclaimed novels in the canon of African-American literature. More
Stride Toward Freedom Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s memoir of the Montgomery bus boycott. More