The Legends

founder, Faith Childs Literary Agency. Since 1990, this independent, full service agency has represented noted novelists, memoirists, biographers and journalists, including several winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship and more.

founder and publisher, Black Classic Press. Started in 1978, BCP is one of the oldest independently owned Black publishing companies operating in the U.S., highlighting original works by Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clark, Josef Ben Yochanon, and reissuing works by Amiri Baraka, J.A. Rogers, W.E.B, DuBois and many more.

prolific author of over 50 crime fiction, novels, and non-fiction books including his newest Farewell, Amethystine, also Fearless Jones, Every Man A King and The Man In My Basement; and filmed adaptations of his works: Devil in a Blue Dress starring Denzel Washington; Always Outnumbered with Laurence Fishburne, and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson.