Of the 124 Authors Who Made the ‘Times’ Top 10 Bestseller Lists in 2012, Only 3 Were People of Color

This heartening infographic comes courtesy of Lee & Low, who got these numbers by looking at the New York Times “general bestsellers list, Combined Print & E-Book Fiction (adult), and the top ten books for all 52 weeks of 2012.” They’ve also done this for the Emmy Awards and the children’s book industry. Next up, a study showing how many minority writers need to be published in the New Yorker’s fiction section for white male writers across America to start an ugly revolt against this marketing-based affirmative action: my guess is the whiskey-rant switch is flipped once we hit, hmm, 10%.