Mormont'sRaven Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Pretty straightforward, really. I looked at my bookshelf and realized it was embarrassingly white and male! Even worse, I don't know many female writers outside of like Virgina Wolfe and Emily Dickinson. And I don't think I can name a single African American female author not named Roxanne Gay. So, can you give me some recommendations. They don't have to all be black and female. Some can be female. Some can be just black. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hello World Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Benjanun Sriduangkaew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 ... I'm going to ignore that. Kate Elliot, Robin Hobb, Naomi Novik, NK Jemisin, Kameron Hurly, (hurley?), Kathernine Kerr, Katherine Kurtz, Elizabeth Bear, Rachael Aaron, Rachael Bach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myshkin Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Well for female African American authors the obvious name is Toni Morrison. For other female authors try, Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Louise Erdrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Arundhati Roy, Deborah Levy, Herta Muller, Christa Wolf, Laura Restrepo, Angela Carter, Simone De Beauvoir... For black authors there's Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston (also female), Ben Okri, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (also female), Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Nuruddin Farah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Nnedi Okorafor. Who Fears Death is absolutely superb, one of my favourite books of the last few years. And she's both black and female!Lauren Beukes is white but she is from South Africa and consequently her first two books (Moxyland and Zoo City) give a distinctly non-American take on SF and urban fantasy, respectively. Both are great. Her more recent two are based in America and are on the face of it more standard supernatural-serial-killer stuff, but Broken Monsters in particular is also excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Some decent recommendations above, to which I will add: Stina Leicht. Her Fey and the Fallen series was really excellent but got caught up in the NightShade debacle, so we're unlikely to see it finished. I hear she's working on a new epic fantasy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AncalagonTheBlack Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 K.J. Bishop, Helen Oyeyemi,Ben Okri ,Nnedi Okorafor,Octavia E. Butler,Nalo Hopkinson,Lauren Beukes,Catherynne M. Valente, Kelly Link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Oh my god I forget K J Parker. I am ashamed. Regarding Leicht, isn't Nightshade back in business though? I thought they still had the rights to everything they had before the resurrection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted November 21, 2014 Share Posted November 21, 2014 Regarding Leicht, isn't Nightshade back in business though? I thought they still had the rights to everything they had before the resurrection. Not sure of the legalities, but I definitely got the impression from somewhere, could have been Leicht's blog, that the series was unlikely to be finished. We live in hope, however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AverageGuy Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I don't think she's been mentioned yet, Ursula K Le Guin just won the national book award. And I don't think I can name a single African American female author not named Roxanne Gay. And there had to have been thousands of tributes to Maya Angelou this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disputatious Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I don't think she's been mentioned yet, Ursula K Le Guin just won the national book award. That we are this far in before a mention of Le Guin is a bit startling to me. For more classic literature by a woman try Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot), especially Middlemarch, the Bronte sisters, and such.For an African American author within the genre, try Samuel Delaney:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_R._DelanyFor another African - American woman author, how about the poet Nikki Giovanni? She can be quite witty, I should note: consider her "Kidnap Poem": "Have you ever been Kidnapped by a Poet?". (Okay, I'll.post that to the poetry thread :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Isn't Delany the one who basically came out in support of NAMBLA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yersinia Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Has anyone mentioned Lois McMaster Bujold yet?I read Octavia Butler's Kindred and found it a really good, unsettling, thought-provoking book. The OP should give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 CJ Cherryl is good. Also as mentioned above Bujold and Butler. Also the name of the author escapes me but The Sparrow is probably one of the best scifi books of the last decade or so, but man it is DEPRESSING. Oh, Ann Leckie is also great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Ent Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 In the Fantasy genre, Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Cherie priest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disputatious Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Isn't Delany the one who basically came out in support of NAMBLA?I don't know. I rather doubt that this affects the interest of his novels should this prove to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilbur Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Ursula Le Guin, Elizabeth Moon, C.L. Moore, Lois McMaster Bujold, James Tiptree Jr, CJ Cherryh, Andre Norton, Leigh Brackett, Mary Stewart, Connie Willis, Mary Renault are all female writers who have made huge impact on the genre. Hugo awards, Nebula awards, they have won them all and had awards named after them, and your local library and bookstore will definitely be stocked with most of these authors' works. Ursula K. Le Guin Elizabeth Moon C. L. Moore Lois McMaster Bujold James Tiptree, Jr. C. J. Cherryh Andre Norton Leigh Brackett Mary Stewart Connie Willis Mary Renault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Just begin with Toni Morrison's Beloved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buff daddy Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 Kim Stanly Robinson and Tracy Hickman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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