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 2012
Winner - Fiction
Mr. Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
Publication Date: Sep 29, 2011
List Price: $25.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781594488078
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Nonfiction
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Publication Date: Feb 09, 2011
List Price: $36.95
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780195386592
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Parent Company: University of Oxford
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Winner - Poetry
The new black (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
by Evie Shockley
Publication Date: Jan 25, 2012
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 128 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780819572875
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Parent Company: Wesleyan University