In a long piece for The Atlanic, Dan Sinykin and Richard Jean So present the results of a DEI study centered on books published by Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan over the last four years. Hachette was excluded from So’s previous study, so it was excluded this time as well for consistency. The study found significant gains in the number of novels published by non-white authors: Between 2019 and 2023, novels by non-white authors rose from 9% to 16%, and novels by Black authors rose from 4% to 9%. The data set for these results is […]
