Possible Clues:

• ''Bellefleur'' novelist
• 'My Heart Laid Bare' writer
• National Book Award winner for ''them''
• 'Black Girl/White Girl' author
• Novelist Joyce Carol ___
• 'Black Water' novelist
• 'The Tattooed Girl' author
• Hall and ___ ("Maneater" duo)
• Prolific Princeton novelist
• Explorer with Scott