The TV show "Queen Sugar" is based on a book by which writer?

The TV show Queen Sugar is based on a book by writer Natalie Baszile.

Baszile’s debut novel, also titled Queen Sugar, was published in 2014. It follows Charley Bordelon, a woman who moves from Los Angeles to rural Louisiana with her daughter after inheriting an 800-acre sugarcane farm from her father. The novel explores family, land ownership, race, identity, and the complicated history of Black farming in the American South.

The television adaptation premiered on Oprah Winfrey Network in 2016. Ava DuVernay created the series and reshaped the source material for television, expanding its characters and fictional world while retaining the novel’s central family and agricultural themes. Oprah Winfrey served as an executive producer and helped bring the book to DuVernay’s attention.

A common mix-up is naming DuVernay as the book’s writer. She was the creator and primary creative force behind the television adaptation, but Natalie Baszile wrote the original novel on which the series was based.