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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 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 a gala 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


The 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Winning Books


Winner  – Fiction Click for more detail about The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Winner  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir by Elizabeth Nunez
Winner  – Poetry Click for more detail about Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Finalist  – Fiction Click for more detail about An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
Finalist  – Fiction Click for more detail about Land Of Love And Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Finalist  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Fire Shut Up In My Bones by Charles M. Blow
Finalist  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
Finalist  – Poetry Click for more detail about Revising the Storm (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America) by Geffrey Davis
Finalist  – Poetry Click for more detail about King Me by Roger Reeves
Nominee  – Fiction Click for more detail about Radiance Of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
Nominee  – Fiction Click for more detail about The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel by Chris Abani
Nominee  – Fiction Click for more detail about The Orchard of Lost Souls: A Novel by Nadifa Mohamed
Nominee  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen
Nominee  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) by Saladin Ambar
Nominee  – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America by Bob Herbert
Nominee  – Poetry Click for more detail about We Didn’t Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore
Nominee  – Poetry Click for more detail about Digest (Stahlecker Selections) by Gregory Pardlo
Nominee  – Poetry Click for more detail about The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Poets, Penguin) by Willie Perdomo







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