NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees
In 2023, the NAACP celebrates the 54th anniversary of Image Awards. There are 5 titles nominated in eight literature categories; Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction,
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
Publication Date: Oct 20, 2020
List Price: $35.00
Format: Hardcover, 640 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781631491665
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Parent Company: Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Winner - Children
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Publication Date: Aug 04, 2020
List Price: $19.95
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Picture Book
ISBN13: 9781620143469
Imprint: Lee & Low Books
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Parent Company: Lee & Low Books
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Winner - Debut Author
We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah E. Cummings
Publication Date: Sep 22, 2020
List Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062992260
Imprint: Harper
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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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
Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780802149565
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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Winner - Instructional
Vegetable Kingdom
by Bryant Terry
Publication Date: Feb 11, 2020
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780399581045
Imprint: Ten Speed Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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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
Publication Date: Nov 17, 2020
List Price: $45.00
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781524763169
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
The Age of Phillis
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780819579492
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Parent Company: Wesleyan University
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Winner - Youth/Teens
Before the Ever After
by Jacqueline Woodson
Publication Date: Sep 01, 2020
List Price: $17.99
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780399545436
Imprint: Nancy Paulsen Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann