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 2005
Winner - Contemporary Fiction
A Woman’s Worth: A Novel
by Tracy Price-Thompson
Publication Date: Oct 25, 2005
List Price: $12.95
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780375757785
Imprint: One World/Ballantine
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Debut Fiction
GraceLand
by Chris Abani
Publication Date: Jan 26, 2005
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 321 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312425289
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Winner - Fiction
Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?: A Fantastical Tale
by Maryse Conde
Publication Date: Aug 30, 2005
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780743482615
Imprint: Washington Square Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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Winner - Nonfiction
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
by Alexis De Veaux
Publication Date: May 01, 2004
List Price: $29.95
Format: Hardcover, 446 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780393019544
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.