- Award-winning author Brenda Jackson has written five books for the Silhouette Desire line.- She was the first African-American woman to become a USA Today bestselling novelist.- She also writes for Kensington Arabesque, St. Martin's Press, BET and NAL.- Brenda Jackson's novels have won numerous awards, including a Waldenbooks award for bestselling multicultural romance and Romantic Times magazine's Best Multicultural Romance.