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Hurston-Wright Legacy Award

The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards program honors Black writers in the United States and around the globe for literary achievement. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers.[1][2] It is granted for fiction, nonfiction and poetry, are selected in a juried competition.[3]

Each fall, writers and publishers are invited to submit fiction, nonfiction and poetry books published that year. Panels of acclaimed writers serve as judges to select nominees, finalists and winners. A number of merit awards are also presented.[4] Nominees are honored at the Legacy Awards ceremony, held the third Friday in October. The awards ceremony is hosted and organized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

Merit awards

The North Star Award pays homage to the significance of the North Star for enslaved Africans, who looked to it as a guide to freedom. The recipients of the award are individuals whose writing and/or service to the writing community serves as a beacon of brilliant accomplishment and as an inspiration to others.

The Ella Baker Award, named for the heroic civil rights activist, recognizes writers and arts activists for exceptional work that advances social justice.

The Madam C.J. Walker Award, named for the pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, recognizes exceptional innovation in supporting and sustaining Black literature.

Winners

Debut Fiction

Year Author Work
2002 David Anthony Durham Gabriel’s Story
2003 Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta
2004 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
2005 Chris Abani GraceLand
2006 Denise Nicholas Freshwater Road
2007 Aminatta Forna Ancestor Stones
2008 Kwame Dawes She's Gone
2016 Sanderia Faye Mourner's Bench
2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson Damnificados
2018 Ladee Hubbard The Talented Ribkins
2020 Jeffrey Colvin Africaville

Fiction

Year Author Work
2002 Percival Everett Erasure
2003 Zakes Mda The Heart of Redness
2004 Mat Johnson Hunting in Harlem
2005 Maryse Condé Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
2006 Nancy Rawles My Jim
2007 Edward P. Jones All Aunt Hagar's Children
2008 Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2009 Uwem Akpan Say You're One of Them
2010 Percival Everett I Am Not Sidney Poitier
2011 Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
2012 Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox
2013 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
2015 Laila Lalami The Moor's Account
2016 James Hannaham Delicious Foods
2017 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad
2018 Alain Mabanckou Black Moses
2019 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People
2020 Curdella Forbes A Tall History of Sugar

Nonfiction

Year Author Work
2002 Ken Wiwa In the Shadow of a Saint:  A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy
2003 Elizabeth McHenry Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
2004 Wil Haygood In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
2005 Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
2006 John Hope Franklin Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
2007 Wangari Maathai Unbowed: A Memoir
2008 Edwige Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
2009 Frank B. Wilderson Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
2010 Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
2011 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
2012 Tomiko Brown-Nagin Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
2013 Fredrick Harris The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics
2014 Craig Wilder Ebony & Ivory
2015 Elizabeth Nunez Not For Everyday Use
2016 Pamela Newkirk Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
2017 Kali Nicole Gross Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
2018 Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
2019 Imani Perry May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
2020 Albert Woodfox Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope

Poetry

Year Author Work
2007 Patricia Smith Teahouse of the Almighty
2008 Kyle G. Dargan Bouquet of Hungers
2009 Myronn Hardy The Headless Saints
2010 Rita Dove

Haki R. Madhubuti

Sonata Mulattica: Poems

Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems

2011 Elizabeth Alexander Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010
2012 Evie Shockley the new black
2013 Lucille Clifton The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
2014 Amaud Jamaul Johnson Darktown Follies
2015 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric
2016 Vievee Francis Forest Primeval
2017 Donika Kelly Bestiary
2018 Evie Shockley Semiautomatic
2019 Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
2020 Ladan Osman Exiles of Eden

Contemporary Fiction

Year Author Work
2005 Tracy Price-Thompson A Woman's Worth
2006 Clyde W. Ford The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries

2020 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner:

  • Africaville, Jeffrey Colvin (Amistad)

Nominees:

  • Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, Ron A. Austin (Southeast Missouri State University Press)
  • As a River, Sion Dayson (Jaded Ibis Press)

Fiction

Winner:

  • A Tall History of Sugar, Curdella Forbes (Akashic Books)

Finalists:

  • Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Books)
  • The World Doesn’t Require You, Rion Amilcar Scott (Liveright)

Nominees:

  • Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon (Counterpoint)
  • Patsy, Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
  • The Revisioners, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint)

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope, Albert Woodfox (Grove Press)

Finalists:

  • Think Black: A Memoir, Clyde Ford (Amistad)
  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Saidiya Hartman (W. W. Norton & Company)

Nominees:

  • Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, Ben Crump (Amistad)
  • We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, Dani McClain (Bold Type Books)
  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (Ecco)

Poetry

Winner:

  • Exiles of Eden, Ladan Osman (Coffee House Press)

Finalists:

  • & More Black, t’ai freedom ford (Augury Books)
  • Syncope, Asiya Wadud (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Nominees:

  • Night Angler (American Poets Continuum), Geffrey Davis (BOA Editions, LTD)
  • 1919, Eve L. Ewing (Haymarket Books)
  • Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins (Copper Canyon Press)

2019 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner:

  • Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires (37Ink/Atria)

Finalists:

  • A Lucky Man, Jamel Brinkley (Graywolf Press)
  • She Would Be King, Wayétu Moore (Graywolf Press)

Nominees:

  • Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Mariner)
  • Brother, David Chariandy (Bloomsbury Publishing)
  • Washington Black, Esi Edugyan (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry (The University of North Carolina Press)

Finalists:

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, Brittney Cooper (St. Martin’s Press)
  • Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter (Henry Holt and Company)

Nominees:

  • Tigerland: 1968-1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing, Wil Haygood (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon (Scribner)
  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)

Poetry

Winner:

  • American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books)

Finalists:

  • Mend, Kwoya Fagin Maples (University Press of Kentucky)
  • Crosslight for Youngbird, Asiya Wadud (Nightboat Books)

Nominees:

  • Approaching the Fields, Chanda Feldman (Louisiana State University Press)
  • DiVida, Monica A. Hand (Alice James Books)
  • Pardon My Heart, Marcus Jackson (TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press)

2018 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner:

  • The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard

Nominees:

  • What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons
  • An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Fiction

Winner:

  • Black Moses by Alain Mabanckou

Finalists:

  • The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
  • Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Nominees:

  • What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
  • The Tragedy of Brady Sims by Ernest J. Gaines
  • Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles

Finalists:

  • Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education by Noliwe Rooks
  • The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

Nominees:

  • Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle Allen
  • Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy by Sheryll Cashin
  • Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History by Camille T. Dungy

Poetry

Winner:

  • Semiautomatic by Evie Shockley

Finalists:

  • Ordinary Beast by Nicole Sealey
  • Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith

Nominees:

  • City of Bones by Kwame Dawes
  • Trophic Cascade by Camille T. Dungy
  • In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae

2017 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner:

  • Damnificados by JJ Amaworo Wilson

Nominees:

Fiction

Winner:

Finalists:

Nominees:

  • The Mother by Yvvette Edwards
  • The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
  • Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America by Kali Nicole Gross

Finalists:

  • The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, And Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson
  • In The Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe

Nominees:

  • The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
  • Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge

Poetry

Winner:

  • Bestiary by Donika Kelly

Finalists:

  • play dead by francine j. harris
  • Thief in the Interior by Phillip B. Williams

Nominees:

  • Third Voice by Ruth Ellen Kocher
  • Rapture by Sjohnna McCray
  • The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

2016 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner:

  • Mourner's Bench by Sanderia Faye

Nominees

  • The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
  • The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma

Fiction

Winner:

  • Delicious Foods by James Hannaham

Finalists:

Nominees:

  • The Sellout by Paul Beatty
  • Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
  • Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk

Finalists:

  • The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
  • Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic by Gerald Horne

Nominees:

  • Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture by Ron Stodghill
  • Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness by Harriet A. Washington
  • The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America by D. Watkins

Poetry

Winner:

  • Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis

Finalists:

  • Honest Engine by Kyle Dargan
  • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

Nominees:

  • How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
  • It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson
  • Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis

2015 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

  • An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
  • Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique

Nominees

  • The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani
  • Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
  • The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed

Nonfiction

Winner

Finalists

  • Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
  • This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

Nominees

  • Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen
  • Malcolm X at Oxford Union by Saladin Ambar
  • Losing Our Way by Bob Herbert

Poetry

Winner

Finalists

  • Revising the Storm by Geffrey Davis
  • King Me by Roger Reeves

Nominees

  • We Don't Know Any Gangsters by Brian Gilmore
  • Digest by Gregory Pardlo
  • The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon by Willie Perdomo

2014 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

  • We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

Finalists

  • Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch
  • Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

Nominees

  • Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home by Sheri Booker
  • The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom  and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
  • Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily Raboteau

Poetry

Winner

  • Darktown Follies by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Finalists

  • Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey
  • The Cineaste: Poems by A. Van Jordan

Nominees

  • Silverchest by Carl Phillips
  • The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
  • What We Ask of Flesh by Remica L. Bingham

2013 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

  • Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Nominees

  • Elsewhere, California by Dana Johnson
  • Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden
  • The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
  • The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
  • A Cupboard Full of Coats by Yvvette Edwards

Nonfiction

Winner

  • The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics by Fredrick Harris

Nominees

  • American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
  • Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
  • Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City by Natalie Hopkinson
  • Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams
  • There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe

Poetry

Winner

Nominees

  • But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
  • me and Nina by Monica Hand

2012 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Finalists

  • Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
  • One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina

Nominees

  • My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir by Mark Whitaker
  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Poetry

Winner

  • the new black by Evie Shockley

Nominees

2011 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

  • Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans

Finalists

  • Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
  • Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Nominees

  • How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique
  • How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
  • Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans by Rosalyn Story

Nonfiction

Winner

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Finalists

  • Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James Jr.
  • The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence Jackson

Nominees

  • Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
  • John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism by Keith Gilyard
  • Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams

Poetry

Winner

  • Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 by Elizabeth Alexander

Nominees

2010 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

  • I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett

Finalists

Nominees

  • Big Machine by Victor Lavalle
  • Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
  • The Trial of Robert Mugabe by Chielo Zona Eze

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley

Finalists

  • Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad by Betty DeRamus
  • Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson by Wil Haygood

Nominees

  • More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson
  • Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial by James A. Miller
  • The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill

Poetry

Winners

Nominees

  • Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem by Mitchell L. H. Douglas
  • Gospel by Samiya Bashir

2009 Winners and Finalists

Fiction

Winner

  • Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan

Finalists

  • Holding Pattern: Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
  • Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid by Frank B. Wilderson

Finalists

  • Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings
  • The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nominees

  • Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
  • Somebody Scream: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power by Marcus Reeves
  • The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African- American Family by Sheryll Cashin

Poetry

  • The Headless Saints by Myronn Hardy
  • Please by Jericho Brown
  • Warhorses by Yusef Komunyakaa

2008 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Nominees

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Brother, I'm Dying by Edwige Danticat

Finalists

  • Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane A. Diouf
  • On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century by Sherrilyn Ifill

Nominees

  • Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  • The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil and the African Slave Trade by Gerald Horne
  • The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why by Jabari Asim

Poetry

Winner

  • Bouquet of Hungers by Kyle G. Dargan

Nominees

  • Conversion by Remica L. Bingham
  • Quantum Lyrics by A. Van Jordan

2007 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

  • Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna

Nominees

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

  • Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
  • Nowhere is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
  • Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa’Thiong’o

Nonfiction

Winner

Finalists

  • The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
  • The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging by Kym Ragusa

Nominees

  • Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley
  • BookMarks: Reading in Black and White by Karla F.C. Holloway
  • The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America by Walter C. Rucker

Poetry

2006 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Nominees

  • Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
  • Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon

Fiction

Winner

  • My Jim: A Novel by Nancy Rawles

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

Finalists

  • Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
  • Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa E. Farrington

Nominees

  • My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations by Mary Frances Berry
  • Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality by Dwight A. McBride
  • Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition by Cheryl A. Wall

Contemporary Fiction

Winner

  • The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries by Clyde W. Ford

Nominees

  • Love on the Dotted Line by David E. Talbert
  • Who Does She Think She is? by Benilde Little

2005 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Nominees

  • The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
  • The Second Life of Samuel Tyne by Esi Edugyan

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux

Finalists

  • A Continent for the Taking by Howard French
  • The End of Blackness by Debra J. Dickerson

Nominees

  • Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge by Ellis Cose
  • The Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander
  • The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin

Contemporary Fiction

  • A Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson
  • Bling by Erica Kennedy
  • Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis

2004 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Finalist

  • A Place Between Stations by Stephanie Allen
  • Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reynolds

Nominee

  • Daughter by Asha Bandele
  • Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
  • Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

Finalists

  • Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson
  • Mandela, Mobutu and Me by Lynne Duke

Nominees

  • Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful by Susan Fales-Hill
  • Somebody’s Someone by Regina Louise
  • Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd

2003 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Finalists

  • A Little Piece Of Sky by Nicole Bailey-Williams
  • Fifth Born by Zelda Lockhart

Nominees

  • Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt
  • River Woman by Donna Hemans
  • Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario

Fiction

Winner

Finalists

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry

Finalists

  • Passed On: African American Mourning Stories by Karla FC Holloway
  • The Herndons: An Atlanta Family by Carole Merritt

Nominees

  • American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America by Leon E. Wynter
  • Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius by Lawrence Jackson

2002 Winners and Finalists

Debut Fiction

Winner

Finalists

  • Greenwichtown by Joyce Palmer
  • The Red Moon by Kuwana Haulsey

Nominees

  • Breathing Room by Patricia Elam
  • Break Any Woman Down by Dana Johnson
  • The Dying Ground by Nichelle D. Tramble

Fiction

Winner

  • Erasure by Percival Everett

Finalists

  • Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
  • October Suite by Maxine Clair

Nominees

Nonfiction

Winner

  • In the Shadow of a Saint:  A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy by Ken Wiwa

Finalists

  • On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker by A’Lelia Bundles
  • The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939 by Paul Robeson Jr.

Nominees

  • Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony by Dwight McBride
  • Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story by Michael Datcher
  • Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks

References

  1. ^ "Hurston/Wright Legacy Award", Hurston/Wright Foundation.
  2. ^ "Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2018 nominees announced", James Murua's Literature Blog, July 4, 2018.
  3. ^ "Hurston/Wright Foundation | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award". www.hurstonwright.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  4. ^ "Merit Awards", Hurston Wright Foundation.

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