The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is pleased to announce nominees for its annual Legacy Award program.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2007 nominees are:
(Listed alphabetically by author)
Fiction:
Dominion (Grove/Atlantic, Inc.)
by Calvin Baker
All Aunt Hagar's Children (HarperCollins Publishers)
by Edward P. Jones
Nowhere is a Place (Dutton)
by Bernice L. McFadden
Jump at the Sun (HarperCollins Publishers)
by Kim McLarin
Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Wizard of the Crow (Pantheon Books)
by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O
Debut Fiction:
Ancestor Stones (Grove/Atlantic, Inc.)
by Aminatta Forna
Unburnable (HarperCollins Publishers)
by Marie-Elena John
Get Down (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
by Asali Solomon
Nonfiction:
The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (Duke University Press)
by Louis Chude-Sokei
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley (HarperCollins Publishers)
by Christopher John Farley
BookMarks: Reading in Black and White (Rutgers University Press)
by Karla FC Holloway
Unbowed: A Memoir (Knopf)
by Wangari Maathai
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty and Belonging (WW Norton)
by Kym Ragusa
The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture and Identity Formation in Early America (Louisiana State University Press)
by Walter C. Rucker
Poetry:
Wind in a Box (Penguin)
by Terrance Hayes
Teahouse of the Almighty (Coffee House Press)
By Patricia Smith
The Architecture of Language (Coffee House Press)
by Quincy Troupe
