Tag: Zora Neale Hurston

1923: The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors…

The Harper Prize Novel is introduced as a competition to discover unknown authors, and receives more than 700 submissions in its first year. The first winner, The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson, is later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1924). More

Stride Toward Freedom

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

Namita Gokhale

I read to share the world, to treasure words, to learn and intuit and recognise experiences to which I have no direct access. More

Namita Gokhale

The Shipping News

Highly acclaimed international bestseller; winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More

One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

Wild Swans

Popular bestseller that has sold more than 13 million copies. More

Our Town

Pulitzer Prize–winning drama; hailed by Edward Albee as “The finest play ever written by an American.” More

Lawrence Hill

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

Lawrence Hill

The Hours

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

1938: Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection…

Harper & Brothers publishes Richard Wright’s debut story collection, Uncle Tom’s Children. More

Go Set a Watchman

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

The Bell Jar

A haunting classic that chronicles the breakdown of a brilliant, talented, successful young woman. More

Black Boy

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

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

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

At every stage of life, since being a kid with a flashlight under the covers, reading has always been my favorite activity. More

Shilpi Somaya Gowda

The White Tiger

Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize. More

Native Son

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

Geronimo Johnson

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

Geronimo Johnson

The Poisonwood Bible

Pulitzer Prize finalist and runaway bestseller. More

The Golden Notebook

A feminist landmark and the best-known work by Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing. More

The God of Small Things

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

Lionel Shriver

Why I write: To find out what I think. More

Lionel Shriver

The Book of Negroes

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

Blonde

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. More