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Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books at the Harlem Book FairPhillis Wheatley Book Awards

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The Phillis Wheatley Book Award winners are announced, annually, during the Harlem Book Fair.



The 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books


Winner – FictionClick for more detail about The Secret Kept by Herbert C. Robinson
Winner – First FictionClick for more detail about The Garden of Unfortunate Souls by Eddie Mark
Winner – First NonfictionClick for more detail about The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Winner – NonfictionClick for more detail about One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne
Winner – PoetryClick for more detail about In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about Ella Pruitt by Doug Cooper Spencer
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about The Summer of my Fifteenth Year by Geri Spencer Hunter
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Daughter Of The Missing by Saharra K. Sandhu
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Provenance: A Novel by Donna Drew Sawyer
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Severed: A Novel by VL Towler
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Bibsy by Brenda Ross
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (New Black Studies Series) by Sonja D Williams
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship by A Yemisi Jimoh and Françoise Hamlin
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America by Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts







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