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
List Price: $12.95One World/Ballantine (Oct 25, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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Winner - Debut Fiction
GraceLand
by Chris Abani
List Price: $17.00Palgrave Macmillan (Jan 26, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 321 pages
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Winner - Fiction
Who Slashed Celanire’s Throat?: A Fantastical Tale
by Maryse Conde
List Price: $16.95Washington Square Press (Aug 30, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
by Alexis De Veaux
List Price: $29.95W. W. Norton & Company (May 01, 2004)
Poetry, Hardcover, 446 pages
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