NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoThe 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

You my print a list of all the award winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.


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: $35.00
Liveright 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: $19.95
Lee & 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: $28.99
Harper (Sep 22, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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Winner - Fiction

Winner - Instructional

Vegetable Kingdom
by Bryant Terry

List Price: $30.00
Ten Speed Press (Feb 11, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction

Winner - Poetry

Winner - Youth/Teens