NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

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The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature. You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.

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Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Debut Author Biography/Autobiography Children Youth/Teens Instructional Graphic Novel

8 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2021

Winner – Biography/Autobiography

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Winner – Children

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm

by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Winner – Debut Author

We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy

by Elijah E. Cummings

Winner – Fiction

The Awkward Black Man

The Awkward Black Man

by Walter Mosley

Winner – Instructional

Vegetable Kingdom

Vegetable Kingdom

by Bryant Terry

Winner – Nonfiction

A Promised Land

A Promised Land

by Barack Obama

Winner – Poetry

The Age of Phillis

The Age of Phillis

by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Winner – Youth/Teens

Before the Ever After

Before the Ever After

by Jacqueline Woodson

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