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 1993

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race

by David Levering Lewis

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Imprint: Holt Paperbacks (Dec 15, 1994)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780805035681

Categorized under:

• Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
• History / United States / General
• Social Science / Cultural Studies / African American

• BCALA Literary Award Winner (1994)
• National Book Award Winner/Finalist (1993)
• Pulitzer Prize Finalist/Winner (1994)
• A QBR 100 Essential Black Book

Book Description:

This monumental biography eight years in the research and writing treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves.

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