Charmaine Wilkerson is the New York Times bestselling author of BLACK CAKE, which was named a "Read with Jenna" Book Club pick and adapted as a Hulu streaming series by Oprah Winfrey and Kapital Entertainment. She is an American writer who has lived in Jamaica and 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 by Charmaine Wilkerson