{"id":13303,"date":"2025-05-06T01:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2025-05-06T04:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T09:28:53","slug":"top-ten-authors-from-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=13303","title":{"rendered":"top ten authors from dc"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> is local authors. Here are ten authors who live or lived in Washington, D.C. (Please note, if you have Congressional representation, you aren’t from D.C., no matter what people from Maryland and Virginia may tell you.)<\/p>\n

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  1. Elizabeth Acevedo<\/a> (I met her on my birthday in … 2019, maybe, when I took myself to Mahogany Books in Anacostia and asked the bookseller for a recommendation for a local writer. I was still in the building when she stopped by, and the bookseller came to find me so she could sign my copy of her poetry collection, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths<\/em>.)<\/li>\n
  2. Jason Reynolds<\/a> (Jason often comes out to support other authors’ talks, so you periodically see him out and about at a local bookstore.)<\/li>\n
  3. E. Ethelbert Miller<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Leslye Penelope<\/a> (She went to Howard, so we’re counting her.)<\/li>\n
  5. Tiffany D. Jackson<\/a> (Ditto)<\/li>\n
  6. Jessica Spotswood<\/a> (a D.C. Public Library employee, who helped run our book club chat for a while!)<\/li>\n
  7. Stephen Spotswood<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Kyle Dargan<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. George Pelecanos<\/a> (Confession: I haven’t read any of his books. But he’s probably one of D.C.’s most famous writers.)<\/li>\n
  10. Nicole Chung<\/a> (I haven’t read any of Nicole’s books yet, but I will.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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