National Book Award: Winners, Finalists, and Longlisted Titles

The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America. National Book Awards are given in five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.

Here we highlight the winners of African descent. The first African-American writer to win a National Book Award was Ralph Ellison, in 1953, for Invisible Man.

One Book Honored by the National Book Foundation in 1962

Nobody Knows My Name

by James Baldwin

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Imprint: Vintage Books (Dec 01, 1992)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780679744733

Categorized under:

• Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
• Fiction / Literary
• Literary Collections / Essays
• Literary Criticism / African American & Black
• Social Science / Cultural Studies / African American

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• National Book Award Winner/Finalist (1962)

Book Description:

Told with Baldwin s characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.

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