Best African American Essays 2009

Authors:
Barack Obama
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Adolph Reed Jr.
Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Gary Younge
Colson Whitehead
Juan Williams
David A. Hoolinger
Allison Samuels
Margo Jefferson
Lauren Collins
Kelefa Sanneh
Gary Kamiya
Lolis Eric Elie
Charles Johnson
Jelani Cobb
Hua Hsu
Daphne A. Brooks
Jerald Walker
Adam Serwer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Wil Haygood
Lisa Funderburg
Patricia Williams
Eric Holder
Bill Maxwell
Richard Thompson Ford
GErlad Early
Scoop Jackson
William C. Rhoden
L. jon Wertheim
Phil Taylor
Rita Dove
Erika Meitner
Michael A. Gonzales
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
John Hope Franklin

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Best African American Fiction 2009

Authors:
Maria Eliza Hamilton
Chris Albani
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Jeffrey Renard Allen
Weslsey Brown
Desiree Cooper
Edwidge Danicat

Amina Gautier
Thomas Glave
W. David Hall
Glenville Lovell
David Nicholson
Jewell Parker Rhodes
John Edgar Wideman
Colson Whitehead
Jesmyn Ward
Kim Sykes
Laurie Halse Anderson
Dorothy Sterling

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