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 2013
Winner - Fiction
Half Blood Blues
by Esi Edugyan
List Price: $17.25Serpent’s Tail (Feb 02, 2012)
Fiction, Paperback
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Winner - Nonfiction
The Price Of The Ticket: Barack Obama And The Rise And Decline Of Black Politics (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies In Black Politics And Black Communities)
by Fredrick Harris
List Price: $24.95Oxford University Press (Jun 15, 2012)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 232 pages
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Winner - Poetry
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
by Lucille Clifton
List Price: $35.00BOA Editions (Aug 28, 2012)
Poetry, Hardcover, 720 pages
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