NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature: Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens
8 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2021
Winner - Biography/Autobiography
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
List Price: $35.00Liveright Publishing Corporation (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Winner - Children
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
List Price: $19.95Lee & Low Books (Aug 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 40 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah E. Cummings
List Price: $28.99Harper (Sep 22, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Winner - Fiction
The Awkward Black Man
by Walter Mosley
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grove Press (Sep 15, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Winner - Instructional
Vegetable Kingdom
by Bryant Terry
List Price: $30.00Ten Speed Press (Feb 11, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Crown Publishing Group (Nov 17, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 768 pages
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Winner - Poetry
The Age of Phillis
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
List Price: $26.95Wesleyan University Press (Mar 03, 2020)
Poetry, Hardcover, 200 pages
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Before the Ever After
by Jacqueline Woodson
List Price: $17.99Nancy Paulsen Books (Sep 01, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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