National Book Award: Winners, Finalists and Longlisted Titles

National Book Award Medals

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 1992

Finalist - Fiction

Click for a larger image of Lost in the City: Stories

Lost in the City: Stories
by Edward P. Jones

    List Price: $19.00
    William Morrow (Jun 01, 1992)
    Fiction, Hardcover, 250 pages
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