Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
- Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
The Hurston-Wright Legacy Award is a literary award given by the National Community of Black Writers.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is the first national award given to black American writers. The award namesakes are two of the most influential black authors, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright.
2007 Winners and Finalists
Fiction
*"All Aunt Hagar's Children" by Edward P. Jones
*"Dominion: A Novel" by Calvin Baker
*"Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction
*"Unbowed: A Memoir" by Wangari Maathai
*"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
Debut Fiction
*"Ancestor Stones" by Aminatta Forna
Poetry
*"Teahouse of the Almighty" by Patricia Smith
2006 Winners and Finalists
Fiction
*"My Jim: A Novel" by Nancy Rawles
*"Pride of Carthage" by David Anthony Durham
*"The Untelling" by Tayari Jones
Nonfiction
*"Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin" by John Hope Franklin
*"Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood" by Donald Bogle
*"Creating Their Own
Lisa E. Farrington
Debut Fiction
*"Freshwater Road" by Denise Nicholas
Contemporary Fiction
*"The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries" by Clyde W. Ford
External link
* [http://www.hurston-wright.org/hw_legacy.shtml Hurston/Wright Legacy Award]
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