Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ honors the best in Black literature. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition. Each October, the award winners are celebrated during the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards that draws hundreds of literary stars, readers, representatives of the publishing industry, the arts, media, politics, and academia. Learn more at the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s website
3 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2014
Winner - Fiction
We Need New Names: A Novel
by NoViolet Bulawayo
List Price: $25.00Reagan Arthur Books (May 21, 2013)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
by Craig Steven Wilder
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2014)
- 2014 BCALA Literary Award
Bloomsbury Press (Sep 02, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 432 pages
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Read Our Review of Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
Winner - Poetry
Darktown Follies: Poems
by Amaud Jamaul Johnson
List Price: $16.95Tupelo Press, Inc. (Nov 01, 2013)
Poetry, Paperback, 70 pages
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