Virginia Moore

Poet, biographer, and scholar, perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the “biography of a state.”

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Dr Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker’s novel Jubilee, published in 1966, is one of the first novels to present the nineteenth-century African American historical experience in the South from an African-American and female point of view.

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Priyanka Champaneri

Priyanka Champaneri’s debut novel The City of Good Death won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, longlisted for India’s Tata Literature Live! First Book Award, and named one of NPR’s 2021 Books We Love.

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Harper Lee

Harper Lee is recognized for her contribution to American literature with her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

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