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
Publication Date: Sep 06, 2011
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781594485367
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2011)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Oct 04, 2011
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 640 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780679763888
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
Crave Radiance: New And Selected Poems 1990-2010
by Elizabeth Alexander
Publication Date: Sep 28, 2010
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781555975685
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Parent Company: Graywolf Press