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William Styron

American novelist from Virginia's Tidewater (1925-2006). He wrote Southern family tragedy, slavery and the Holocaust into fiction, and later a short memoir of depression. Best known for Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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Yaa Gyasi

Ghanaian American novelist Yaa Gyasi writes literary fiction about family, history, faith and the forces that shape Black lives across generations.

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Yann Martel

Canadian novelist born in Spain in 1963 and best known for Life of Pi, which won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. A francophone who writes in English, he works in fiction that keeps coming back to identity, imagination and storytelling.

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bell hooks

bell hooks was an American feminist writer, cultural critic and teacher whose work joined questions of race, gender and class with searching arguments about education, love and freedom.

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