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Charmaine Wilkerson

Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake. She is an American writer who has lived in Jamaica and is based in Italy. A graduate of Barnard College and Stanford University, she is a former journalist whose award-winning short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies.

Books

On Hulu Now: Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson’s bestselling multigenerational family epic, Black Cake, has been adapted into a series which is now streaming on Hulu! Black Cake follows two siblings, Benny and Byron, who inherit a mysterious black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording after their mother Eleanor’s death. In her message, Eleanor

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Celebrate Black History Month!

Image from Gee’s Bend: Equal Justice by Essie Bendolph Pettway, Paulson Fontaine Press   February is Black History Month! Continue to celebrate the stories and achievements of the Black community throughout February and the rest of the year through self-education, conversation and action. Black History Month Amplify Black Voices: Cookbooks Amplify Black Stories: Children’s Books Amplify Black

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