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
3 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2011
Winner - Fiction
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
by Danielle Evans
List Price: $17.00Riverhead Books (Sep 06, 2011)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
19-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 9 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2011)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Knopf (Oct 04, 2011)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 640 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Crave Radiance: New And Selected Poems 1990-2010
by Elizabeth Alexander
List Price: $28.00Graywolf Press (Sep 28, 2010)
Poetry, Hardcover, 240 pages
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