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***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER******THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***Winner of the 2021Â Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words...
The National Bestseller • One of The Minneapolis Star Tribune's Best Books of the Year“A superb book...[Kaplan is] a master biographer, a dogged researcher and shaper of narrative, and this is his most ambitious book to date.” —Los Angeles TimesFrom the author of the...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARDS NOMINEE: OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK“Richie is refreshingly open in the book, which functions as both a fun memoir and a love letter to music and his beloved Tuskegee…...
W. Ralph Eubanks presents a powerful memoir about race and identity told through the lives of one American family across three generations.In 1914, in defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a...
A NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARAn extraordinary work of revisionist history that centers Africa in the life of one of our greatest philosophers: "Excellent, short, and highly readable.... Traces a grittier story of a life lived almost entirely in a small area of what is...
The story of a slave-turned-US senator and an African American dynasty: "A compelling portrait of the Bruce family's rise, dynamics and downfall." —The Washington Post Spanning more than a century, Lawrence Otis's illuminating biography is a fascinating look at race...
An in-depth history exploring the evolution, impact, and ultimate demise of what was known in the 1930s and '40s as FDR's Black Cabinet.In 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency with the help of key African American...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused...
A compelling love story—inspired by the author’s own family history—set in the segregated South during and after World War II, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Women and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.When three young Black men enlist in the US Army hoping...
An NPR “Books We Love” Pick of the YearA Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year“[A] radiant, rich, no-stone-unturned biography.”—Paula J. Giddings, author of When and Where I EnterA landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and...