Charmaine Wilkerson

Charmaine Wilkerson is a Jamaican-American journalist, writer and author best known for her debut novel, Black Cake, a New York Times bestseller. Wilkerson's books are literary fiction that move across generations of one family. Good Dirt follows a daughter from a prominent Black family as she looks into a childhood tragedy and an heirloom tied to its secrets. The novels stay with memory, identity, and how the past still weighs on the present.