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
5 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2006
Winner - Contemporary Fiction
The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries
by Clyde W. Ford
List Price: $13.95Midnight Ink (Oct 08, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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Winner - Debut Fiction
Freshwater Road
by Denise Nicholas
List Price: $15.00Agate (Apr 12, 2016)
Fiction, Paperback, 346 pages
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Winner - Fiction
My Jim: A Novel
by Nancy Rawles
List Price: $19.95Crown Publishing Group (Jan 11, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope Franklin
List Price: $28.00Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Oct 31, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 416 pages
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Finalist - Debut Fiction
Upstate: A Novel
by Kalisha Buckhanon
St. Martin’s Griffin (Jan 10, 2006)Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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