Daniel Black Books

Daniel Black

Daniel Black is an award-winning novelist, professor, and scholar whose work explores Black identity, family, history, spirituality, love, and the complexities of belonging. A native of Kansas, Black was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, experiences that deeply influence the communities, traditions, and voices found throughout his writing. He is a professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University and holds a doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University. Black is the author of acclaimed works including *Perfect Peace*, *They Tell Me of a Home*, *The Sacred Place*, *Twelve Gates to the City*, *The Coming*, *Don’t Cry for Me*, and *Black ... Daniel Black is an award-winning novelist, professor, and scholar whose work explores Black identity, family, history, spirituality, love, and the complexities of belonging. A native of Kansas, Black was raised in Blackwell, Arkansas, experiences that deeply influence the communities, traditions, and voices found throughout his writing. He is a professor of African American Studies at Clark Atlanta University and holds a doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University. Black is the author of acclaimed works including *Perfect Peace*, *They Tell Me of a Home*, *The Sacred Place*, *Twelve Gates to the City*, *The Coming*, *Don’t Cry for Me*, and *Black on Black*. His fiction often centers characters confronting questions of identity, generational expectations, family wounds, and what it means to live authentically within—and sometimes beyond—the communities that shaped them. For readers, Black’s work offers stories that can be deeply personal while speaking to larger conversations about Black life and humanity. His novels invite readers to wrestle with difficult truths, recognize themselves or others with greater compassion, and continue thinking about the characters long after the final page. See more