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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Novelist and Essayist

Achievements

• MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellowship recipient
• Orange Prize for Fiction & Commonwealth Writers' Prize winner

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Octavia Estelle Butler

Science Fiction Writer

Achievements

• First science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellowship
• Multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Writer

Achievements

• National Book Award & Kirkus Prize winner
• MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellowship recipient

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Toni Morrison

Novelist

Achievements

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1988) & Nobel Prize in Literature (1993)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient

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Colson Whitehead

Novelist

Achievements

• Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (2017, 2020)
• MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Fellowship recipient

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