Black Novelists 500 is a dataset and series of blog entries, short essays, podcast episodes, and visualizations that document 500 Black novelists across career trajectories, time, geography, and genre. The project brings together biographical information and publication histories to make visible both the breadth of Black novelistic production and the uneven patterns of attention that extend beyond the most frequently cited figures.
In African American literary studies, scholarly articles commonly focus on two or three authors, while broad survey texts typically identify no more than a hundred novelists. I was curious about what we might learn by extending that scope to consider hundreds of Black novelists at once.
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