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 2002
Winner - Debut Fiction
Gabriel’s Story
by David Anthony Durham
List Price: $23.95Doubleday (Jan 16, 2001)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Winner - Fiction
Erasure
by Percival Everett
7-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2002)
Graywolf Press (Oct 25, 2011)
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy
by Ken Wiwa
List Price: $26.00Steerforth (Sep 09, 2001)
Fiction, Hardcover, 247 pages
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Finalist - Debut Fiction
Fifth Born: A Novel
by Zelda Lockhart
List Price: $24.00Atria Books (Aug 20, 2002)
Fiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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