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Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is the wife of the forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama , and the first African-American First Lady of the United States . Michelle Robinson was born and grew up on the South Side of Chicago and graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School . After completing her formal education, she returned to Chicago and accepted a position with the law firm Sidley Austin , where she met her future husband. Subsequently, she worked as part of the staff of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley , and for the University of Chicago Medical Center . Throughout 2007 and 2008, she helped campaign for her husband's presidential bid and delivered a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention . She is the mother of two daughters, Sasha and Malia, and is the sister of Craig Robinson , men's basketball coach at Oregon State University . Michelle Obama - Photo Timeline from Bid Announcement

An unprecedented number of black characters inhabit today's mainstream fiction best-seller lists, but few of them are created by black authors. Meanwhile, a few books by African American writers manage to attract a crossover audience among white readers. Race/culture play an important part in books. Race is (often) a major component of someone's personal and cultural identity. Individually a book should be a unique experience that reflects the author's attempt to explain the human experience through his or her own creativity. Listed below are a few authors that are Non-African American in which the main character(s) in their novels are African American. ___________________________________________________________ Beulah Hill by William Heffernan - a strong black male character name Jehiel Flood, Heffernan placed him in a fabulously, complex murder mystery and examination of racial history which takes place in 1933 Vermont. This book has received outs