Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ honors the best in Black literature. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition. Each October, the award winners are celebrated during the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards that draws hundreds of literary stars, readers, representatives of the publishing industry, the arts, media, politics, and academia. Learn more at the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s website
5 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2006
Winner - Contemporary Fiction
The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries
by Clyde W. Ford
Publication Date: Oct 08, 2005
List Price: $13.95
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780738707853
Imprint: Midnight Ink
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Parent Company: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.
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Winner - Debut Fiction
Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas
Publication Date: Apr 12, 2016
List Price: $15.00
Format: Paperback, 346 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781572841956
Imprint: Agate
Publisher: Agate Publishing
Parent Company: Agate Publishing, Inc
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Winner - Fiction
My Jim: A Novel
by Nancy Rawles
Publication Date: Jan 11, 2005
List Price: $19.95
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781400054008
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Nonfiction
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
Publication Date: Oct 31, 2006
List Price: $28.00
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780374530471
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Finalist - Debut Fiction
Upstate: A Novel
by Kalisha Buckhanon
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Publication Date: Jan 10, 2006
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312332693
Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group