Debuts Extraordinaire
By APOOO • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Book of Lists •
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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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Victoria Wells… A Special Summer
T. Coates – The Beautiful Struggle
E. Lynn’s debut was Invisible Life, I believe.
Also, what about the lady who wrote Passport Diaries, her name escapes me….
Um, how about Going Broke by Trista Russell?
Cheers,
Joan