But there were other things a black writer from that world might have missed because he or she was too close.

"Before the 19th century, for instance, there were almost no women and black writers."

"Now I can't believe how many books are being published by black writers," she said.

And so, she's one of the Black female writers that attracted me.

But these two writers, both black, picked the wrong target.

Black writers have a different sense of where they're at.

A black writer remembers growing up with his white mother in Brooklyn.

Even when black writers are not from the South, there is a direct thread.

Black writers have always had to face the issue of whether their work was primarily political or aesthetic.

But he said privately that a black writer would never have laughed.