Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 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


17 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2015

Winner - Fiction


Winner - Nonfiction


Winner - Poetry


Finalist - Fiction


Finalist - Fiction


Finalist - Nonfiction


Finalist - Poetry


Finalist - Poetry

Revising the Storm (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)
by Geffrey Davis

List Price: $16.00
BOA Editions (Apr 01, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 96 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
by Chris Abani

List Price: $16.00
Penguin Group USA (Jan 07, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 336 pages
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Nominee - Fiction


Nominee - Fiction

The Orchard of Lost Souls: A Novel
by Nadifa Mohamed

List Price: $17.00
Picador (Jun 16, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
by Saladin Ambar

List Price: $31.95
Oxford University Press (Feb 10, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America
by Bob Herbert

List Price: $27.95
Doubleday (Oct 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
by Danielle Allen

List Price: $16.95
Liveright (May 04, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin)
by Willie Perdomo

List Price: $18.00
Penguin Group USA (Mar 25, 2014)
Poetry, Paperback, 80 pages
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Nominee - Poetry


Nominee - Poetry