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
3 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2003
Winner - Debut Fiction
Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari Jones
List Price: $14.99Grand Central Publishing (Aug 01, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 272 pages
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Winner - Fiction
The Heart of Redness: A Novel
by Zakes Mda
List Price: $17.00Picador (Aug 01, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
by Elizabeth McHenry
List Price: $30.95Duke University Press Books (Oct 31, 2002)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 440 pages
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