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 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
21 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2021
Winner - Debut Fiction
Remembrance
by Rita Woods
Publication Date: Jan 21, 2020
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250298454
Imprint: Forge
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Winner - Fiction
Telephone
by Percival Everett
Publication Date: May 05, 2020
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781644450222
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Parent Company: Graywolf Press
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Winner - Nonfiction
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain
Publication Date: Jan 07, 2020
List Price: $28.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781631493942
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Parent Company: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Winner - Poetry
Seeing the Body: Poems
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Publication Date: Jun 09, 2020
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781324005667
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Finalist - Fiction
Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark
Publication Date: Oct 13, 2020
List Price: $19.99
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250767028
Imprint: Tordotcom
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Finalist - Fiction
The Freedom Artist
by Ben Okri
Publication Date: Feb 04, 2020
List Price: $30.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617757914
Imprint: Akashic Books
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books
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Finalist - Nonfiction
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
by Tabitha Brown
Publication Date: Jan 14, 2020
List Price: $35.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780674737570
Imprint: Belknap Press
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Parent Company: Harvard University
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Finalist - Nonfiction
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask
Publication Date: Apr 14, 2020
List Price: $26.99
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250134769
Imprint: St. Martin’s Press
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Finalist - Poetry
Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
by Carl Phillips
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
List Price: $23.00
Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780374229054
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Finalist - Poetry
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
by Tommye Blount
Publication Date: Mar 02, 2020
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 152 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781945588495
Imprint: Four Way Books
Publisher: Four Way Books
Parent Company: Four Way Books
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Nominee - Debut Fiction
The Coyotes of Carthage
by Steven Wright
Publication Date: Jan 12, 2021
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062951687
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Debut Fiction
Black Sunday
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Publication Date: Feb 04, 2020
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781948226561
Imprint: Catapult
Publisher: Catapult
Parent Company: Catapult
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Nominee - Fiction
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
by Alice Randall
Publication Date: Jul 06, 2021
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062970862
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Fiction
Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
Publication Date: May 12, 2020
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780802129369
Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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Nominee - Fiction
These Bodies
by Morgan Christie
Publication Date: Dec 08, 2020
List Price: $19.00
Format: Paperback, 244 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781948800365
Imprint: Tolsun Books
Publisher: Tolsun Publishing
Parent Company: Tolsun Publishing, Inc.
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Publication Date: Jul 28, 2020
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062248572
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by Ainissa Ramirez
Publication Date: Apr 06, 2021
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 328 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780262542265
Imprint: The MIT Press
Publisher: The MIT Press
Parent Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
by Ijeoma Oluo
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2021)
Publication Date: Dec 01, 2020
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781580059510
Imprint: Seal Press
Publisher: Seal Press
Parent Company: Seal Press
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Nominee - Poetry
Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
by Erica Hunt
Publication Date: Nov 10, 2020
List Price: $19.95
Format: Paperback, 208 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781643620244
Imprint: Nightboat Books
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Parent Company: Nightboat Books
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Nominee - Poetry
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
by John Murillo
Publication Date: Mar 02, 2020
List Price: $16.95
Format: Paperback, 88 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781945588471
Imprint: Four Way Books
Publisher: Four Way Books
Parent Company: Four Way Books
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Nominee - Poetry
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
by Kiki Petrosino
Publication Date: May 05, 2020
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781946448545
Imprint: Sarabande Books
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Parent Company: Sarabande Books