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Drama Lit, with a focus on human relationships
- Tracy Brown
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Stephen L. Carter
- Pearl Cleage
- Virginia DeBerry
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Gwynne Forster
- Sharon Foster
- E. Lynn Harris
- Ernest Gaines
- Edward P. Jones
- Gloria Mallette
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- Bernice McFadden
- Terry McMillan
- Mary B Monroe
- Toni Morrison
- Kayla Perrin
- Kimberla Lawson Roby
- Sapphire
- April Sinclair
- Michelle Stimpson
- Lalita Tademy
- Omar Tyree
- Alice Walker
- Carl Weber
- Sheila Williams
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African-American Suspense / Mystery
- Eleanor Taylor Bland
- Claudia Mair Burney
- Stephen L. Carter
- Christopher Chambers
- Nora DeLoach
- Eric Jerome Dickey
- Robert O. Greer
- Hugh Holton
- Solomon Jones
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- Tony Lindsay
- Walter Mosley
- Barbara Neely
- Gary Phillips
- Jewell Rhodes
- Julie Smith
- Blair Underwood
- Valerie Wesley
- Paula L. Woods
- Teri Woods
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Romance
- Stacy Hawkins Adams
- Rochelle Alers
- Angela Benson
- ReShonda Tate Billingsley
- Connie Briscoe
- Niobia Bryant
- Adrianne Byrd
- Pearl Cleage
- Angie Daniels
- Gwynne Forster
- Shirley Hailstock
- Donna (Donna O) Hill
- Brenda Jackson
- Beverly Jenkins
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- Darrien Lee
- Vanessa Miller
- Victoria Murray
- Patricia Anne Phillips
- Candice Poarch
- Deirdre Savoy
- Vickie M. Stringer
- Jacquelin Thomas
- Trisha Thomas
- Carl Weber
- Tia Williams
- Angela Winters
- Teri Woods
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Street Lit, with a focus on violence, drugs, and street life
- Wahida Clark
- Donald Goines
- Joy King
- K'Wan
- Mary B. Morrison
- Walter Mosley
- Noire
- Nikki Turner
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African-Americans in the West
- Loren D. Estleman
- Robert O. Greer
- Elmer Kelton
- Walter Dean Myers
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