NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction

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This page lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction. Maya Angelou and Michael Eric Dyson hold the record for most wins in this category, with two each.

Maya Angelou American poet, author, and civil rights activist

Maya Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

Michael Eric Dyson Author, professor

Michael Eric Dyson is an academic, author, preacher, and radio host. He is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.

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Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s

YearBookAuthorRef
1994
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of 'Malcolm X' Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley [1]
1996
When We Were Colored Clifton Taulbert [2]
1999
With Ossie & Ruby: In This Life Together Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee [3]

2000s

YearBookAuthorRef
2002
Sally Hemmings, An American Scandal Tina Andrews [4]
2003
Keeping the Faith Tavis Smiley [5]
A Song Flung Up to Heaven Maya Angelou
Bill Clinton and Black AmericaDeWayne Wickham
Growing Up X Ilyasah Shabazz
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in LettersCarla Kaplan
2004
Why I Love Black Women Michael Eric Dyson [6]
2005
Hallelujah! The Welcome Table Maya Angelou [7]
2006
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Michael Eric Dyson [8]
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir Stanley Williams
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters and Speeches Manning Marable and Myrlie Evers-Williams
50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in AmericaAnthony Asadullah Samad
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America John McWhorter
2007
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama [9]
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Michael Eric Dyson
The Covenant with Black America Tavis Smiley
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete William C. Rhoden
Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community Gil L. Robertson
2008
Not on Our Watch Don Cheadle and John Prendergast [10]
An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, From Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President Randall Robinson
Brother, I'm Dying Edwidge Danticat
Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop Michael Eric Dyson
Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-AmericansM. Dujon Johnson
2009
Letter to My Daughter Maya Angelou [11]

2010s

YearBookAuthorRef
2010
In Search of Our Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr. [12]
Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum Cynthia Carter
Our Choice Al Gore
Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and MiraclesArnold Mann and Keith Black
Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today Gil L. Robertson
2011
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander [13]
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black InferiorityTom Burrell
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC Faith S. Holsaert
Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History Julianne Malveaux
The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter
2012
The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place Hill Harper [14]
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Melissa Harris-Perry
Super Rich Russell Simmons
The Cosmopolitan Canopy Elijah Anderson
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now Touré
2013
The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court Jeffrey Toobin [15]
FraternityDiane Brady
Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a NationDeborah Davis
Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones Connie Rice
The Courage to Hope Shirley Sherrod
2014
Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer [16]
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the WorldRetha Powers
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society Carl Hart
Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones Hill Harper
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Donald Yacovone
2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Bryan Stevenson [17]
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay
Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Sheryll Cashin
Who We Be: The Colorization of America Jeff Chang
2016
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota BengaPamela Newkirk [18]
50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and LeadershipKathey Porter and Andrea Hoffman
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill Leovy
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America Wil Haygood
The Light of the World Elizabeth Alexander
2017
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly [19]
Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Eddie S. Glaude
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Ibram X. Kendi
Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld

Multiple wins and nominations

Wins

2 wins

Nominations

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References

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  2. ↑ "1996 Image Award Winners". LA Times . April 8, 1996. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ "1999 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ "2002 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ "2003 Image Award Nominees". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ "2004 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ "2005 Image Award Winners". Infoplease. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ "2006 Image Awards". Awards and Winners. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ "2006 Image Awards". Aalbc. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ "2008 Image Award Nominees". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ "2009 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  12. ↑ "2010 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  13. ↑ "2011 Image Award Winners". Awards and Winners. Archived from the original on August 16, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  14. ↑ Allin, Olivia. "2012 Image Winners". ABC7 . Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  15. ↑ Couch, Aaron (February 1, 2013). "2013 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  16. ↑ Couch, Aaron; Washington, Arlene (February 22, 2014). "2014 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  17. ↑ Washington, Arlene (February 6, 2015). "2015 Image Winners". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  18. ↑ "2016 Image Winners". Variety . Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  19. ↑ Lewis, Hilary; Washington, Arlene (February 10, 2017). "2017 Image Award Winners". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved February 21, 2017.
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