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
4 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2007
Winner - Debut Fiction
Ancestor Stones
by Aminatta Forna
Publication Date: Sep 10, 2007
List Price: $14.00
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780802143211
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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Winner - Fiction
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
Publication Date: Aug 28, 2007
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780060557577
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Winner - Nonfiction
Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
Publication Date: Sep 04, 2007
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780307275202
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry)
by Patricia Smith
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2006
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 114 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781566891936
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Parent Company: Coffee House Press