Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

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The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards program in the United States honors published Black writers worldwide 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, selected in a juried competition. [3]

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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

In addition to the Legacy Awards, the Hurston/Wright board of directors may present Merit awards during the annual Legacy Award ceremony.

Legacy Award winners

Fiction

Contemplative fiction

Contemplative fiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2005 Tracy Price-Thompson A Woman's Worth [7]
2006 Clyde W. Ford The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries [8]

Debut fiction

Debut fiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2002 David Anthony Durham Gabriel's Story
2003 Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta
2004 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
2005 Chris Abani GraceLand [7]
2006 Denise Nicholas Freshwater Road [8]
2007 Aminatta Forna Ancestor Stones
2008 Kwame Dawes She's Gone
2016 Sanderia Faye Mourner's Bench [9]
2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson Damnificados [10]
2018 Ladee Hubbard The Talented Ribkins
2020 Jeffrey Colvin Africaville [11]
2021 Rita Woods Remembrance
2022 Quntos KunQuest This Life [12]
2023 Meron Hadero A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories [13] [14]

General fiction

General fiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
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? [7]
2006 Nancy Rawles My Jim [8]
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 [15] [16]
2011 Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self [17]
2012 Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox
2013 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues [18]
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names
2015 Laila Lalami The Moor's Account [19] [20]
2016 James Hannaham Delicious Foods [9]
2017 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad [10] [21]
2018 Alain Mabanckou Black Moses
2019 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People [22] [23] [24]
2020 Curdella Forbes A Tall History of Sugar [11]
2021 Percival Everett Telephone
2022 Percival Everett The Trees [12]
2023 James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta [13] [14]

Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2023 T. L. Huchu Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments [13] [14]

Nonfiction

General nonfiction

General nonfiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
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 [7]
2006 John Hope Franklin Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin [8]
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 [15] [16]
2011 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration [17]
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 [18]
2014Craig WilderEbony & Ivy
2015 Elizabeth Nunez Not For Everyday Use [19] [20]
2016 Pamela Newkirk Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga [9]
2017 Kali Nicole Gross Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America [10]
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 [23] [24]
2020 Albert Woodfox Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope [11]
2021 Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Historical/Social/Political

Historical/Social/Political nonfiction winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2022 Howard W. French Born in Blackness [12]
2023 Mariame Burnham By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners [13] [14]

Memoir/Biography

Memoir/Biography winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2022 Shanna Greene Benjamin Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay [12]
2023 Ross Gay Inciting Joy [13] [14]

Poetry

Poetry winners [6]
YearAuthorWorkRef.
2007 Patricia Smith Teahouse of the Almighty
2008 Kyle G. Dargan Bouquet of Hungers
2009 Myronn Hardy The Headless Saints
2010 Rita Dove Sonata Mulattica: Poems [15] [16] [25]
Haki R. Madhubuti Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems [15] [16]
2011 Elizabeth Alexander Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 [17]
2012 Evie Shockley the new black
2013 Lucille Clifton The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 [18]
2014 Amaud Jamaul Johnson Darktown Follies
2015 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric [19] [20]
2016 Vievee Francis Forest Primeval [9]
2017 Donika Kelly Bestiary [10]
2018 Evie Shockley Semiautomatic
2019 Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin [24]
2020 Ladan Osman Exiles of Eden [11]
2021 Rachel Eliza Griffiths Seeing the Body
2022 Shara McCallum No Ruined Stone [12] [26]
2023 Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate [13] [14]

Winners, finalists, and nominees

Fiction

Contemporary fiction

Contemporary fiction winners, finalists, and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2005 Tracy Price-Thompson A Woman's WorthWinner [7]
Erica Kennedy BlingNominee
Bridgett M. Davis Shifting Through NeutralNominee
David E. Talbert Love on the Dotted LineNominee
2006 Clyde W. Ford The Long Mile: The Shango MysteriesWinner [8]
Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?Nominee

Debut fiction

Debut fiction winners, finalists, and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2002 David Anthony Durham Gabriel's Story Winner
Kuwana Haulsey The Red MoonFinalist
Joyce Palmer GreenwichtownFinalist
Patricia Elam Breathing RoomNominee
Dana Johnson Break Any Woman DownNominee
Nichelle D. Tramble The Dying GroundNominee
2003 Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta Winner
Nicole Bailey-Williams A Little Piece Of SkyFinalist
Zelda Lockhart Fifth BornFinalist
Donna Hemans River WomanNominee
Marc Nesbitt GiganticNominee
Nelly Rosario Song of the Water SaintsNominee
2004 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus Winner
Stephanie AllenA Place Between StationsFinalist
April Reynolds Knee-Deep in WonderFinalist
Asha Bandele DaughterNominee
ZZ Packer Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Nominee
Suzan-Lori Parks Getting Mother's Body Nominee
2005 Chris Abani GraceLand Winner [7]
Esi Edugyan The Second Life of Samuel Tyne Nominee
Delores Phillips The Darkest Child Nominee
2006 Denise Nicholas Freshwater RoadWinner [8]
Doreen Baingana Tropical Fish: Tales from EntebbeNominee
Kalisha Buckhanon UpstateNominee
2007 Aminatta Forna Ancestor Stones Winner
Marie-Elena John Unburnable Nominee
Asali Solomon Get Down: StoriesNominee
2008 Kwame Dawes She's GoneWinner
Ravi Howard Like Trees, WalkingNominee
Nathan McCall ThemNominee
2016 Sanderia Faye Mourner's BenchWinner [9]
Naomi Jackson The Star Side of Bird HillNominee [9]
Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Nominee [9]
2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson DamnificadosWinner [10]
A. Igoni Barrett Blackass Nominee [27]
Elnathan John Born on a Tuesday Nominee [27]
2018 Ladee Hubbard The Talented RibkinsWinner
Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose Nominee
Rivers Solomon An Unkindness of Ghosts Nominee
2020 Jeffrey Colvin AfricavilleWinner [11]
Ron A. Austin Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a LiarNominee
Sion Dayson As a RiverNominee
2021 Rita Woods RemembranceWinner
Tola Rotimi Abraham Black SundayNominee
Steven WrightThe Coyotes of CarthageNominee
2022 Quntos KunQuest This LifeWinner [12]
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber The House of RustNominee
Sifiso Mzobe Young BloodNominee
Dawnie Walton The Final Revival of Opal and Nev Nominee
2023 Meron Hadero A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: StoriesWinner [13] [14]
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Nominee [28]
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere Finding La NegritaNominee [28]

General fiction

Fiction winners, finalists, and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2002 Percival Everett Erasure Winner
Maxine Clair October SuiteFinalist
Anthony Grooms BombinghamFinalist
Bernice L. McFadden The Warmest DecemberNominee
Reginald McKnight He SleepsNominee
Walter Mosley Fearless JonesNominee
2003 Zakes Mda The Heart of RednessWinner
Victor Lavalle The EcstaticFinalist
Jewell Parker Rhodes Douglass' WomenFinalist
Elizabeth Nunez DiscretionNominee
Yvonne Vera Without a Name and Under the TongueNominee
Crystal Wilkinson Water StreetNominee
2004 Mat Johnson Hunting in HarlemWinner
Austin Clarke The Polished Hoe Finalist
Caryl Phillips A Distant Shore Finalist
Barbara Chase-Riboud Hottentot VenusNominee
Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads Nominee
Edward P. Jones The Known World Nominee
2005 Maryse Condé Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?Winner [7]
Edwige Danticat The Dew Breaker Finalist
Zakes Mda The Madonna of ExcelsiorFinalist
Percival Everett American DesertNominee
Nuruddin Farah LinksNominee
Walter Mosley The Man in My BasementNominee
2006 Nancy Rawles My JimWinner [8]
David Anthony Durham Pride of Carthage Finalist
Tayari Jones The UntellingFinalist
Tananarive Due Joplin's GhostNominee
Caryl Phillips Dancing in the Dark Nominee
Martha Southgate Third Girl from the Left Nominee
2007 Edward P. Jones All Aunt Hagar's Children Winner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun Finalist
Calvin Baker DominionFinalist
Bernice L. McFadden Nowhere Is a PlaceNominee
Kim McLarin Jump at the SunNominee
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Wizard of the Crow Nominee
2008 Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Winner
Maryse Condé The Story of the Cannibal WomanFinalist
Lawrence Hill Someone Knows My Name Finalist
Jan Carew The Guyanese WanderNominee
Helon Habila Measuring TimeNominee
Helen Oyeyemi The Opposite House Nominee
2009 Uwem Akpan Say You're One of Them Winner
Jeffery Renard Allen Holding Pattern: StoriesFinalist
Jesmyn Ward Where the Line Bleeds Finalist
Breena Clarke Stand the StormNominee
Tananarive Due Blood Colony Nominee
James McBride Song Yet SungNominee
2010 Percival Everett I Am Not Sidney Poitier Winner [15]
Bernardine Evaristo Blonde Roots Finalist
Colson Whitehead Sag Harbor Finalist
Chielo Zona Eze The Trial of Robert MugabeNominee
Victor Lavalle Big MachineNominee
Attica Locke Black Water RisingNominee
2011 Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool SelfWinner [17]
Bernice L. McFadden GloriousFinalist
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Wench Finalist
Dinaw Mengestu How to Read the AirNominee
Rosalyn Story Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans Nominee
Tiphanie Yanique How to Escape from a Leper ColonyNominee
2012 Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox Winner
Tayari Jones Silver Sparrow Finalist
Colson Whitehead Zone One Finalist
Nuruddin Farah CrossbonesNominee
Danzy Senna You Are FreeNominee
Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Nominee
2013 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Winner [18]
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of CoatsNominee
Dana Johnson Elsewhere, CaliforniaNominee
Attica Locke The Cutting SeasonNominee
Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Nominee
Bernice L. McFadden Gathering of WatersNominee
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Winner
Mitchell S. Jackson The Residue YearsFinalist
Jamaica Kincaid See Now Then Finalist
Preston L. Allen Every Boy Should Have a ManNominee
James McBride The Good Lord Bird Nominee
Courttia Newland The Gospel According to CaneNominee
2015 Laila Lalami The Moor's Account Winner [19] [20]
Roxane Gay An Untamed State Finalist
Tiphanie Yanique Land of Love and DrowningFinalist
Chris Abani The Secret History of Las Vegas Nominee
Ishmael Beah Radiance of TomorrowNominee
Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard of Lost Souls Nominee
2016 James Hannaham Delicious FoodsWinner [9]
Angela Flournoy The Turner House Finalist [9]
Caryl Phillips The Lost ChildFinalist [9]
Paul Beatty The Sellout Nominee [9]
T. Geronimo Johnson Welcome to BraggsvilleNominee [9]
Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees Nominee [9]
2017 Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad Winner [10] [21]
Amina Gautier The Loss of All Lost ThingsFinalist
Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn Finalist
Yvvette Edwards The MotherNominee [27]
Bernice McFadden The Book of HarlanNominee [27]
Zadie Smith Swing Time Nominee [27]
2018 Alain Mabanckou Black MosesWinner
Yewande Omotoso The Woman Next Door Finalist
Jesmyn Ward Sing, Unburied, Sing Finalist
Lesley Nneka Arimah What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Nominee
Ernest J. Gaines The Tragedy of Brady SimsNominee
Peter Kimani Dance of the JakarandaNominee
2019 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored PeopleWinner [22] [23] [24]
Wayétu Moore She Would Be KingFinalist [23]
Jamel Brinkley A Lucky ManFinalist [23]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Nominee [23]
David Chariandy BrotherNominee
Esi Edugyan Washington Black Nominee
2020 Curdella Forbes A Tall History of SugarWinner [11]
Rion Amilcar Scott The World Doesn't Require YouFinalist
Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread Finalist
Kalisha Buckhanon Speaking of SummerNominee
Nicole Dennis-Benn PatsyNominee
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton The RevisionersNominee
2021 Percival Everett TelephoneWinner
Ben Okri The Freedom Artist Finalist
P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout Finalist
Morgan ChristieThese BodiesNominee
Lauren Francis-Sharma Book of the Little AxeNominee
Alice Randall Black Bottom SaintsNominee
2022 Percival Everett The Trees Winner [12]
Ladee Hubbard Rib KingNominee
Natashia Deon The PerishingNominee
J.J. Amaworo Wilson NazaréNominee
Sadeqa Johnson Yellow WifeNominee
Alaya Dawn Johnson Reconstruction: StoriesNominee
2023 James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Winner [13] [14]
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Take My HandNominee [28]
Dionne Irving The IslandsNominee [28]
Candice Carty-Williams People PersonNominee [28]
Jacinda Townsend Mother CountryNominee [28]

Speculative fiction

Speculative fiction winners and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2023 T. L. Huchu Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments Winner [13] [14]
Tochi Onyebuchi Goliath Nominee [28]
Rita Woods The Last DreamwalkerNominee [28]

Nonfiction

General nonfiction

Nonfiction winners, finalists, and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2002 Ken Wiwa In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's LegacyWinner
A'Lelia Bundles On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. WalkerFinalist
Paul Robeson Jr. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939Finalist
Michael Datcher Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love StoryNominee
bell hooks Salvation: Black People and LoveNominee
Dwight McBride Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave TestimonyNominee
2003 Elizabeth McHenry Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary SocietiesWinner
Karla FC Holloway Passed On: African American Mourning StoriesFinalist
Carole Merritt The Herndons: An Atlanta FamilyFinalist
Lawrence JacksonRalph Ellison: Emergence of GeniusNominee
Leon E. Wynter American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White AmericaNominee
2004 Wil Haygood In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.Winner
Lynne Duke Mandela, Mobutu and MeFinalist
E. Patrick Johnson Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of AuthenticityFinalist
Valerie Boyd Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale HurstonNominee
Susan Fales-Hill Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and BeautifulNominee
Regina Louise Somebody's SomeoneNominee
2005 Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Winner [7]
Debra J. Dickerson The End of BlacknessFinalist
Howard French A Continent for the TakingFinalist
Elizabeth Alexander The Black InteriorNominee
Sheryll Cashin The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American DreamNominee
Ellis Cose Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and RevengeNominee
2006 John Hope Franklin Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope FranklinWinner [8]
Donald Bogle Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black HollywoodFinalist
Lisa E. Farrington Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women ArtistsFinalist
Mary Frances Berry My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave ReparationsNominee
Dwight A. McBride Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and SexualityNominee
Cheryl A. Wall Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary TraditionNominee
2007 Wangari Maathai Unbowed: A Memoir Winner
Louis Chude-Sokei The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African DiasporaFinalist
Kym Ragusa The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and BelongingFinalist
Christopher John Farley Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob MarleyNominee
Karla F.C. Holloway BookMarks: Reading in Black and WhiteNominee
Walter C. Rucker The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early AmericaNominee
Quincy Troupe The Architecture of LanguageNominee
2008 Edwige Danticat Brother, I'm Dying Winner
Sylviane A. Diouf Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaFinalist
Sherrilyn Ifill On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first CenturyFinalist
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel Nominee
Jabari Asim The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and WhyNominee
Gerald Horne The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil and the African Slave TradeNominee
2009 Frank B. Wilderson Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and ApartheidWinner
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to ManhoodFinalist
Paula J. Giddings Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingFinalist
Sheryll Cashin The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African- American FamilyNominee
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into LegendNominee
Marcus ReevesSomebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black PowerNominee
2010 Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalWinner [15] [16]
Betty DeRamus Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground RailroadFinalist
Wil Haygood Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray RobinsonFinalist
Gwen Ifill The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of ObamaNominee
James A. MillerRemembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous TrialNominee
William Julius Wilson More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner CityNominee
2011 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Winner [17]
Lawrence Jackson The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960Finalist
Rawn James Jr. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End SegregationFinalist
Tom Burrell Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black InferiorityNominee
Thomas Chatterton Williams Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop CultureNominee
Keith Gilyard John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary ActivismNominee
2012 Tomiko Brown-Nagin Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementWinner
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black AmericaFinalist
Binyavanga Wainaina One Day I Will Write About This PlaceFinalist
Melissa V. Harris-Perry Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Nominee
Mark Whitaker My Long Trip Home: A Family MemoirNominee
2013 Fredrick Harris The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black PoliticsWinner [18]
Chinua Achebe There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra Nominee
Natalie Hopkinson Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate CityNominee
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Exit: The Endings That Set Us FreeNominee
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy American LynchingNominee
Heather Andrea Williams Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in SlaveryNominee
2014 Craig Wilder Ebony & IvoryWinner
Stanley Crouch Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie ParkerFinalist
Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped Finalist
Sheri Booker Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral HomeNominee
William P. JonesThe March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil RightsNominee
Emily Raboteau Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African DiasporaNominee
2015 Elizabeth Nunez Not For Everyday UseWinner [19] [20]
Charles M. Blow Fire Shut Up in My BonesFinalist
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement PossibleFinalist
Danielle Allen Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of EqualityNominee
Saladin Ambar Malcolm X at Oxford UnionNominee
Bob Herbert Losing Our WayNominee
2016 Pamela Newkirk Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota BengaWinner [9]
Elizabeth Alexander The Light of the WorldFinalist [9]
Gerald Horne Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican RepublicFinalist [9]
Ron Stodghill Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and CultureNominee [9]
Harriet A. Washington Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental IllnessNominee [9]
D. Watkins The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in AmericaNominee [9]
2017 Kali Nicole Gross Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in AmericaWinner [10]
Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, And Reconciliation After the GenomeFinalist
Christina Sharpe In the Wake: On Blackness and BeingFinalist
Patricia Bell-Scott The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social JusticeNominee [27]
Ibram X. Kendi Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Nominee [27]
Gary Younge Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives Nominee [27]
2018 Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the StraitsWinner
Noliwe Rooks Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public EducationFinalist
Michael W. Twitty The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African American Culinary History in the Old South Finalist
Danielle Allen Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.Nominee
Sheryll Cashin Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White SupremacyNominee
Camille T. Dungy Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and HistoryNominee
2019 Imani Perry May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National AnthemWinner [23] [24]
Stephen L. Carter Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful MobsterFinalist
Brittney Cooper Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerFinalist [23]
Wil Haygood Tigerland: 1968–1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of HealingNominee
Kiese Laymon Heavy: An American Memoir Nominee [23]
Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Nominee
2020 Albert Woodfox Solitary: My Story of Transformation and HopeWinner [11]
Clyde Ford Think Black: A MemoirFinalist
Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer RadicalsFinalist
Ben Crump Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored PeopleNominee
Dani McClain We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black MotherhoodNominee
Damon Young What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in EssaysNominee
2021 Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America Winner
Vincent Brown Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarFinalist
Deirdre Mask The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and PowerFinalist
Ijeoma Oluo Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaNominee
Ainissa Ramirez The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One AnotherNominee
Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirNominee

Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction

Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction winners and nominees [6]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2022 Howard W. French Born in BlacknessWinner [12]
Daphne Brooks Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist SoundNominee
Mariame Kaba We Do This Till We Free UsNominee
2023 Mariame Burnham By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal ExecutionersWinner [13] [14]
Robert O’Meally Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American CultureNominee [28]
Caleb Gayle We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and PowerNominee [28]
Winston James Claude McKay: The Making of a Black BolshevikNominee [28]

Memoir/Biography

Memoir/Biography winners and nominees [6]
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2022 Shanna Greene Benjamin Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKayWinner [12]
Farah Jasmine Griffin Read Until You UnderstandNominee
Marlon Peterson Bird UncagedNominee
2023 Ross Gay Inciting JoyWinner [13] [14]
Taylor HarrisThis Boy We MadeNominee [28]
D. Watkins Black Boy SmileNominee [28]
Harrison Mooney Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-DiscoveryNominee [28]

Poetry

Poetry winners, finalists, and nominees [6]
YearAuthorWorkResultRef.
2007 Patricia Smith Teahouse of the AlmightyWinner
Terrance Hayes Wind in a BoxFinalist
Quincy Troupe The Architecture of LanguageFinalist
2008 Kyle G. Dargan Bouquet of HungersWinner
Remica L. Bingham ConversionNominee
A. Van Jordan Quantum LyricsNominee
2009 Myronn Hardy The Headless SaintsWinner
Jericho Brown PleaseNominee
Yusef Komunyakaa WarhorsesNominee
2010 Rita Dove Sonata Mulattica: PoemsWinner [15] [25]
Haki R. Madhubuti Liberation Narratives: New and Collected PoemsWinner [15]
Samiya Bashir GospelNominee
Mitchell L. H. Douglas Cooling Board: A Long-Playing PoemNominee
2011 Elizabeth Alexander Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010Winner [17]
Terrance Hayes LightheadNominee
Thomas Sayers Ellis Skin, Inc: Identity Repair PoemsNominee
2012 Evie Shockley the new blackWinner
Aracelis Girmay Kingdom AnimaliaNominee
Tracy K. Smith Life on Mars Nominee
2013 Lucille Clifton The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–210Winner [18]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram But a Storm Is Blowing from ParadiseNominee
Monica Hand me and NinaNominee
2014 Amaud Jamaul Johnson Darktown FolliesWinner
Yona Harvey Hemming the WaterFinalist
A. Van Jordan The Cineaste: PoemsFinalist
Remica L. Bingham What We Ask of FleshNominee
Adrian Matejka The Big SmokeNominee
Carl Phillips SilverchestNominee
2015 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Winner [19] [20]
Geffrey Davis Revising the StormFinalist
Roger Reeves King MeFinalist
Brian GilmoreWe Don't Know Any GangstersNominee
Gregory Pardlo DigestNominee
Willie Perdomo The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon BonNominee
2016 Vievee Francis Forest PrimevalWinner [9]
Kyle Dargan Honest EngineFinalist [9]
Ross Gay Catalog of Unabashed GratitudeFinalist [9]
Robin Coste Lewis Voyage of the Sable Venus Nominee [9]
Terrance Hayes How to Be Drawn Nominee [9]
Angela Jackson It Seems Like a Mighty Long TimeNominee [9]
2017 Donika Kelly BestiaryWinner [10]
francine j. harris play deadFinalist
Phillip B. Williams Thief in the InteriorFinalist
Ruth Ellen Kocher Third VoiceNominee [27]
Sjohnna McCray RaptureNominee [27]
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib The Crown Ain't Worth MuchNominee [27]
2018 Evie Shockley SemiautomaticWinner
Nicole Sealey Ordinary BeastFinalist
Patricia Smith Incendiary Art Finalist
Kwame Dawes City of BonesNominee
Camille T. Dungy Trophic CascadeNominee
Shane McCrae In the Language of My CaptorNominee
2019 Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Winner [24]
Kwoya Fagin Maples MendFinalist [23]
Asiya Wadud Crosslight for YoungbirdFinalist [23]
Chanda Feldman Approaching the FieldsNominee [23]
Monica A. Hand DiVidaNominee
Marcus JacksonPardon My HeartNominee
2020 Ladan Osman Exiles of EdenWinner [11]
t’ai freedom ford & More BlackFinalist
Asiya Wadud SyncopeFinalist
Geffrey Davis Night AnglerNominee
Eve L. Ewing 1919Nominee
Alison Rollins Library of Small CatastrophesNominee
2021 Rachel Eliza Griffiths Seeing the BodyWinner
Tommye Blount Fantasia for the Man in BlueFinalist
Carl Phillips Pale Colors in a Tall FieldFinalist
Erica Hunt Jump the ClockNominee
John Murillo Kontemporary Amerikan PoetryNominee
Kiki Petrosino White Blood: A Lyric of VirginiaNominee
2022 Shara McCallum No Ruined StoneWinner [12] [26]
Mahogany L. Browne I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I LoveNominee
Teri Ellen Cross Davis More Perfect UnionNominee
Clemonce Heard Tragic CityNominee
Douglas Kearney ShoNominee
Yusef Komunyakaa Everyday Mojo Songs of EarthNominee
2023 Courtney Faye Taylor ConcentrateWinner [13] [14]
Cheryl Boyce Taylor We Are Not Wearing HelmetsNominee [28]
Robin Coste Lewis To the Realization of Perfect HelplessnessNominee [28]
Renee Gladman Plans for SentencesNominee [28]
Isaiah A. Hines Null LandingNominee [28]
Roger Reeves Best BarbarianNominee [28]

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