This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author.
Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2007 | Hill Harper | Letters to a Young Brother | Winner | [1] |
Lisa Jones Johnson | A Dead Man Speaks | Nominee | [1] | |
Charlene A. Porter | Boldfaced Lies | Nominee | [1] | |
Dwight Fryer | The Legend of Quito Road | Nominee | [1] | |
Bil Carpenter | Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia | Nominee | [1] | |
2008 | Victoria Rowell | The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir | Winner | [2] |
Dinaw Mengestu | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears | Nominee | [3] | |
Robin Givens | Grace Will Lead Me Home | Nominee | [3] | |
Ravi Howard | “Like Trees, Walking” | Nominee | [3] | |
Ishmael Beah | A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | Nominee | [3] | |
2009 | David Glenn Brown | Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion | Winner | [4] [5] |
2010 | Reginald Dwayne Betts | A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison | Winner | [6] |
BeNeca Ward | 3rd Generation Country | Nominee | [7] | |
Attica Locke | Black Water Rising | Nominee | [7] | |
Farai Chideya | Kiss the Sky | Nominee | [7] | |
Amanda Smyth | Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange | Nominee | [7] | |
2011 | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Winner | [8] |
2012 | Shirley Strawberry | The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy | Winner | [9] |
Denise Hall Brown | 2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors and Supporters Navigate the Healing Process | Nominee | [9] | |
Justin Torres | We the Animals | Nominee | [9] | |
Patricia Duncan | Defining Moment: Barack Obama: The Historical Journey to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue | Nominee | [9] | |
Shella Gillus | The Loom | Nominee | [9] | |
2013 | Darryl L. Lacy | Nikki G: A Portrait of Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words | Winner | [10] |
Mayi Ngwala and Allain Ngwala | Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1) | Nominee | [10] [11] | |
R. Kayeen Thomas | Antebellum | Nominee | [10] [11] | |
Sonia Jackson Myles | The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister | Nominee | [10] [11] | |
Yvvette Edwards | A Cupboard Full of Coats | Nominee | [10] [11] | |
2014 | Sheri Booker | Nine Years Under | Winner | [12] |
Hannah Weyer | On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story | Nominee | [12] | |
Jason Mott | The Returned | Nominee | [12] | |
Taiye Selasi | Ghana Must Go | Nominee | [12] | |
2015 | Dwayne Alexander Smith | Forty Acres | Winner | [13] |
Darrell Miller | The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame | Nominee | [13] | |
Morowa Yejide | Time of the Locust | Nominee | [13] | |
Natalie Baszile | Queen Sugar | Nominee | [13] | |
Toni Ann Johnson | Remedy for a Broken Angel | Nominee | [13] | |
2016 | Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Winner | [14] |
Angela Flournoy | The Turner House | Nominee | [14] | |
April Ryan | The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America | Nominee | [14] | |
Naomi Jackson | The Star Side of Bird Hill | Nominee | [14] | |
Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher | The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken | Nominee | [14] | |
2017 | Trevor Noah | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood | Winner | [15] |
Lisa Fenn | Carry On | Nominee | [15] | |
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve | Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court | Nominee | [15] | |
Natashia Deón | Grace | Nominee | [15] | |
Cory Booker | United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good | Nominee | [15] | |
2018 | Stephanie Powell Watts | No One Is Coming to Save Us | Winner | [16] |
Devin Allen | A Beautiful Ghetto | Nominee | [16] | |
Leland Melvin | Chasing Spaces: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace & Second Chances | Nominee | [16] | |
Patricia Williams , with Jeannine Amber | Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat | Nominee | [16] | |
Gabrielle Union | We're Going to Need More Wine | Nominee | [16] | |
2019 | David Mann and Shaun Sanders | Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family | Winner | [17] |
Gaël Faye | Small Country | Nominee | [17] | |
Janet Dewart Bell | Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement | Nominee | [17] | |
Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Heads of the Colored People (paperback) | Nominee | [17] | |
Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II | Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice | Nominee | [17] | |
2020 | Hal Banfield | I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer | Winner | [18] |
Erica Campbell | More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty | Nominee | [18] | |
Lauren Wilkinson | American Spy | Nominee | [18] | |
Joanne Ramos | The Farm | Nominee | [18] | |
Kiley Reid | Such a Fun Age | Nominee | [18] | |
2021 | Elijah E. Cummings | We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy | Winner | [19] |
Brittany K. Barnett | A Knock at Midnight | Nominee | [20] | |
Cole Brown | Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World | Nominee | [20] | |
Megan Giddings | Lakewood | Nominee | [20] | |
Walter Thompson-Hernández | The Compton Cowboys | Nominee | [20] | |
2022 | Cicely Tyson | Just As I Am | Winner | [21] [22] |
Katherine Johnson | My Remarkable Journey | Nominee | [22] | |
Zakiya Dalila Harris | The Other Black Girl | Nominee | [22] | |
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Nominee | [22] | |
Rebecca Hall | Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Nominee | [22] | |
2023 | George McCalman | Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen | Winner | [23] |
Boyah J. Farah | America Made Me a Black Man | Nominee | [24] | |
Ekemini Uwan , Christina Edmondson, and Michelle Higgins | Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation | Nominee | [24] | |
Kai Harris | What the Fireflies Knew | Nominee | [24] | |
Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks | Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner | Nominee | [24] | |
2024 | Krystle Zara Appiah | Rootless | Winner | [25] |
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu | And Then He Sang a Lullaby | Nominee | [26] | |
Kim Coleman Foote | Coleman Hill | Nominee | [26] | |
Kleaver Cruz | The Black Joy Project | Nominee | [26] | |
Breanne McIvor | The God of Good Looks | Nominee | [26] |
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