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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2 Books Honored by the National Book Foundation in 1997
Finalist - Nonfiction
My Brother
by Jamaica Kincaid
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Nov 09, 1998)
Fiction, Paperback, 208 pages
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Finalist - Poetry
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems
by Marilyn Nelson
LSU Press (May 01, 1997)
Poetry, Paperback, 224 pages
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