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 2007
Winner - Debut Fiction
Ancestor Stones
by Aminatta Forna
List Price: $14.00Grove Press (Sep 10, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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Winner - Fiction
All Aunt Hagar’s Children: Stories
by Edward P. Jones
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2007)
Amistad (Aug 28, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 416 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Unbowed: A Memoir
by Wangari Maathai
List Price: $16.00Anchor (Sep 04, 2007)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Teahouse Of The Almighty (National Poetry)
by Patricia Smith
List Price: $16.00Coffee House Press (Sep 01, 2006)
Poetry, Paperback, 114 pages
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