African American Popular Fiction Writers

This is only a sampling of the many African American authors whose works are available through the Onondaga County Public Library. For additional books by these and other authors, visit your local library or check the catalog.

OCPL's Beauchamp Branch, located at the corner of Salina and Colvin Streets, has one of the county's most extensive collections of African American writers. Please call Beauchamp Branch at (315) 435-3395 for more information.

Author Index: A - B | C - D | E - F | G - H | I - K | L - M | N - P | R - S | T - Y

Author last names beginning with T:

Lalita Tademy

• Cane River

Simona Taylor

• Soul's Desire

Jervey Tervalon

• Dead Above Ground
• Understand This

Jacquelin Thomas

• Family Ties
• Love's Miracle
• A Resolution of Love
• Undeniably Yours
• With a Song in My Heart

Pamela Thomas-Graham

• Blue Blood
• A Darker Shade of Crimson

Omar Tyree

• A Do Right Man
• Flyy Girl
• For the Love of Money
• Just Say No!
• Leslie
• Single Mom
• Sweet St. Louis

W:

Alice Walker

• By the Light of My Father's Smile
• The Color Purple
• In Love and Trouble
• Meridian
• Possessing the Secret of Joy
• The Temple of My Familiar
• The Third Life of Grange Copeland
• The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart

Blair S. Walker

• Up Jumped the Devil

Valerie Wilson Wesley

• Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
• The Devil Riding
• Devil's Gonna Get Him
• Easier to Kill
• No Hiding Place
• When Death Comes Stealing
• Where Evil Sleeps

Chassie West

• Killer Riches
• Killing Kin
• Loss of Innocence
• Sunrise

Franklin White

• Cup of Love
• Fed Up with the Fanny
• Til Death Do Us Part

John Edgar Wideman

• The Cattle Killing
• Philadelphia Fire
• Sent for You Yesterday
• Two Cities

Dennis A. Williams

• Somebody's Child

Crystal Wilson-Harris

• Good Intentions
• Love's Destiny

Darryl Wimberley

• A Dead Man's Bay
• Strawman's Hammock

Angela Winters

• The Business of Love
• A Forever Passion
• Love on the Run
• Sudden Love
• Sweet Surrender

Paula L. Woods

• Inner City Blues
• Stormy Weather

Alice Wootson

• Home for Christmas
• Snowbound with Love

Bil Wright

• Sunday You Learn How to Box

Courtni Wright

• All That Matters
• A Forgotten Love
• A New Beginning
• Recipe for Love

Richard Wright

• Lawd Today!
• Native Son
• Rite of Passage

Y:

Shay Youngblood

• The Big Mama Stories
• Black Girl in Paris
• Soul Kiss