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 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.
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One Book Honored by the National Book Foundation in 1975
Winner - Children’s Books
M.C. Higgins, The Great
by Virginia Hamilton
List Price: $7.99Aladdin (May 01, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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