This is a list of First Time Authors who hit a homerun on their first-time out:

• Jenoyne Adams–Resurrecting Mingus
• Bertice Berry–Redemption Song
• Daniel Black–They Tell Me of a Home
• Michelle Andrea Bowen–Church Folks
• Kalisha Buchanon–Upstate (2005)
• Akusoa Bukia–Seasons of Beento Blackbird
• Pearl Cleage–What Look’s Like Crazy on An Ordinary Day
• Lolita Files–Scenes From a Sistah
• Suzette Francis–Rules of a Pretty Woman
• Virginia Grant & Donna DeBerry–Trying to Sleep in the Bed You Made
• Brian Keith Jackson–The View From Here
• Gary Hardwick–Cold Medina
• E. Lynn Harris–Just as I Am
• Marie-Elena Jones–Unburnable
• Tayari Jones–Leaving Atlanta
• Slim Lambright–Justus Girls
• Marcus Major–Good Peoples
• J. D. Mason–And on the Eighth Day She Rested
• Bernice McFadden–Sugar
• Diane McKinney-Whetstone–Tumbling
• Terry McMillan–Mama
• Mary Monroe–God Still Don’t Like Ugly
• Jill Nelson–Sexual Healing
• Suzan Lori Parks–Getting Mother’s Body
• Gabrielle Pina–Bliss
• ZZ Packer–Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
• Erica Turnipseed–A Love Noire
• Elyse Singleton–This Side of the Sky
• Andrea Smith–Friday Night at HoneyBee’s
• Sister Souljah–Coldest Winter Ever
• Martha Southgate–Fall of Rome
• Sheila Williams–Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

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