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 a gala 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
One Book Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2006
Finalist - Debut Fiction
Upstate: A Novel
by Kalisha Buckhanon
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Publication Date: Jan 10, 2006
List Price: Unavailable
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780312332693
Imprint: St. Martin’s Griffin
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group