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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]

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

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

  • The North Star Award pays homage to the significance of the North Star[5] for enslaved Africans, who looked to it as a guide to gaining freedom in the North. It is awarded to individuals whose writing and/or service to the writing community serve as a beacon of brilliant accomplishment and as an inspiration to others.
  • The Ella Baker Award, named for the heroic civil rights activist, recognizes writers and arts activists for exceptional work that advances social justice.
  • The Madam C.J. Walker Award, named for the pioneering entrepreneur and philanthropist, recognizes exceptional innovation in supporting and sustaining Black literature.

Legacy Award winners

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Fiction

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Contemplative fiction

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

Debut fiction

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Debut fiction winners[6]
Year Author Work Ref.
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

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General fiction winners[6]
Year Author Work Ref.
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

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Speculative fiction winners[6]
Year Author Work Ref.
2023 T. L. Huchu Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments [13][14]

Nonfiction

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General nonfiction

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General nonfiction winners[6]
Year Author Work Ref.
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]
2014 Craig Wilder Ebony & 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

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

Memoir/Biography

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

Poetry

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Poetry winners[6]
Year Author Work Ref.
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

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Fiction

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Contemporary fiction

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Contemporary fiction winners, finalists, and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2005 Tracy Price-Thompson A Woman's Worth Winner [7]
Erica Kennedy Bling Nominee
Bridgett M. Davis Shifting Through Neutral Nominee
David E. Talbert Love on the Dotted Line Nominee
2006 Clyde W. Ford The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries Winner [8]
Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is? Nominee

Debut fiction

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Debut fiction winners, finalists, and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2002 David Anthony Durham Gabriel's Story Winner
Kuwana Haulsey The Red Moon Finalist
Joyce Palmer Greenwichtown Finalist
Patricia Elam Breathing Room Nominee
Dana Johnson Break Any Woman Down Nominee
Nichelle D. Tramble The Dying Ground Nominee
2003 Tayari Jones Leaving Atlanta Winner
Nicole Bailey-Williams A Little Piece Of Sky Finalist
Zelda Lockhart Fifth Born Finalist
Donna Hemans River Woman Nominee
Marc Nesbitt Gigantic Nominee
Nelly Rosario Song of the Water Saints Nominee
2004 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus Winner
Stephanie Allen A Place Between Stations Finalist
April Reynolds Knee-Deep in Wonder Finalist
Asha Bandele Daughter Nominee
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 Road Winner [8]
Doreen Baingana Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe Nominee
Kalisha Buckhanon Upstate Nominee
2007 Aminatta Forna Ancestor Stones Winner
Marie-Elena John Unburnable Nominee
Asali Solomon Get Down: Stories Nominee
2008 Kwame Dawes She's Gone Winner
Ravi Howard Like Trees, Walking Nominee
Nathan McCall Them Nominee
2016 Sanderia Faye Mourner's Bench Winner [9]
Naomi Jackson The Star Side of Bird Hill Nominee [9]
Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Nominee [9]
2017 JJ Amaworo Wilson Damnificados Winner [10]
A. Igoni Barrett Blackass Nominee [27]
Elnathan John Born on a Tuesday Nominee [27]
2018 Ladee Hubbard The Talented Ribkins Winner
Zinzi Clemmons What We Lose Nominee
Rivers Solomon An Unkindness of Ghosts Nominee
2020 Jeffrey Colvin Africaville Winner [11]
Ron A. Austin Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar Nominee
Sion Dayson As a River Nominee
2021 Rita Woods Remembrance Winner
Tola Rotimi Abraham Black Sunday Nominee
Steven Wright The Coyotes of Carthage Nominee
2022 Quntos KunQuest This Life Winner [12]
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber The House of Rust Nominee
Sifiso Mzobe Young Blood Nominee
Dawnie Walton The Final Revival of Opal and Nev Nominee
2023 Meron Hadero A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories Winner [13][14]
Leila Mottley Nightcrawling Nominee [28]
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere Finding La Negrita Nominee [28]

General fiction

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Fiction winners, finalists, and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2002 Percival Everett Erasure Winner
Maxine Clair October Suite Finalist
Anthony Grooms Bombingham Finalist
Bernice L. McFadden The Warmest December Nominee
Reginald McKnight He Sleeps Nominee
Walter Mosley Fearless Jones Nominee
2003 Zakes Mda The Heart of Redness Winner
Victor Lavalle The Ecstatic Finalist
Jewell Parker Rhodes Douglass' Women Finalist
Elizabeth Nunez Discretion Nominee
Yvonne Vera Without a Name and Under the Tongue Nominee
Crystal Wilkinson Water Street Nominee
2004 Mat Johnson Hunting in Harlem Winner
Austin Clarke The Polished Hoe Finalist
Caryl Phillips A Distant Shore Finalist
Barbara Chase-Riboud Hottentot Venus Nominee
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 Excelsior Finalist
Percival Everett American Desert Nominee
Nuruddin Farah Links Nominee
Walter Mosley The Man in My Basement Nominee
2006 Nancy Rawles My Jim Winner [8]
David Anthony Durham Pride of Carthage Finalist
Tayari Jones The Untelling Finalist
Tananarive Due Joplin's Ghost Nominee
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 Dominion Finalist
Bernice L. McFadden Nowhere Is a Place Nominee
Kim McLarin Jump at the Sun Nominee
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 Woman Finalist
Lawrence Hill Someone Knows My Name Finalist
Jan Carew The Guyanese Wander Nominee
Helon Habila Measuring Time Nominee
Helen Oyeyemi The Opposite House Nominee
2009 Uwem Akpan Say You're One of Them Winner
Jeffery Renard Allen Holding Pattern: Stories Finalist
Jesmyn Ward Where the Line Bleeds Finalist
Breena Clarke Stand the Storm Nominee
Tananarive Due Blood Colony Nominee
James McBride Song Yet Sung Nominee
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 Mugabe Nominee
Victor Lavalle Big Machine Nominee
Attica Locke Black Water Rising Nominee
2011 Danielle Evans Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Winner [17]
Bernice L. McFadden Glorious Finalist
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Wench Finalist
Dinaw Mengestu How to Read the Air Nominee
Rosalyn Story Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans Nominee
Tiphanie Yanique How to Escape from a Leper Colony Nominee
2012 Helen Oyeyemi Mr. Fox Winner
Tayari Jones Silver Sparrow Finalist
Colson Whitehead Zone One Finalist
Nuruddin Farah Crossbones Nominee
Danzy Senna You Are Free Nominee
Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones Nominee
2013 Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues Winner [18]
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats Nominee
Dana Johnson Elsewhere, California Nominee
Attica Locke The Cutting Season Nominee
Ayana Mathis The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Nominee
Bernice L. McFadden Gathering of Waters Nominee
2014 NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names Winner
Mitchell S. Jackson The Residue Years Finalist
Jamaica Kincaid See Now Then Finalist
Preston L. Allen Every Boy Should Have a Man Nominee
James McBride The Good Lord Bird Nominee
Courttia Newland The Gospel According to Cane Nominee
2015 Laila Lalami The Moor's Account Winner [19][20]
Roxane Gay An Untamed State Finalist
Tiphanie Yanique Land of Love and Drowning Finalist
Chris Abani The Secret History of Las Vegas Nominee
Ishmael Beah Radiance of Tomorrow Nominee
Nadifa Mohamed The Orchard of Lost Souls Nominee
2016 James Hannaham Delicious Foods Winner [9]
Angela Flournoy The Turner House Finalist [9]
Caryl Phillips The Lost Child Finalist [9]
Paul Beatty The Sellout Nominee [9]
T. Geronimo Johnson Welcome to Braggsville Nominee [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 Things Finalist
Jacqueline Woodson Another Brooklyn Finalist
Yvvette Edwards The Mother Nominee [27]
Bernice McFadden The Book of Harlan Nominee [27]
Zadie Smith Swing Time Nominee [27]
2018 Alain Mabanckou Black Moses Winner
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 Sims Nominee
Peter Kimani Dance of the Jakaranda Nominee
2019 Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People Winner [22][23][24]
Wayétu Moore She Would Be King Finalist [23]
Jamel Brinkley A Lucky Man Finalist [23]
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Friday Black Nominee [23]
David Chariandy Brother Nominee
Esi Edugyan Washington Black Nominee
2020 Curdella Forbes A Tall History of Sugar Winner [11]
Rion Amilcar Scott The World Doesn't Require You Finalist
Helen Oyeyemi Gingerbread Finalist
Kalisha Buckhanon Speaking of Summer Nominee
Nicole Dennis-Benn Patsy Nominee
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton The Revisioners Nominee
2021 Percival Everett Telephone Winner
Ben Okri The Freedom Artist Finalist
P. Djèlí Clark Ring Shout Finalist
Morgan Christie These Bodies Nominee
Lauren Francis-Sharma Book of the Little Axe Nominee
Alice Randall Black Bottom Saints Nominee
2022 Percival Everett The Trees Winner [12]
Ladee Hubbard Rib King Nominee
Natashia Deon The Perishing Nominee
J.J. Amaworo Wilson Nazaré Nominee
Sadeqa Johnson Yellow Wife Nominee
Alaya Dawn Johnson Reconstruction: Stories Nominee
2023 James Hannaham Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta Winner [13][14]
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Take My Hand Nominee [28]
Dionne Irving The Islands Nominee [28]
Candice Carty-Williams People Person Nominee [28]
Jacinda Townsend Mother Country Nominee [28]

Speculative fiction

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Speculative fiction winners and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2023 T. L. Huchu Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments Winner [13][14]
Tochi Onyebuchi Goliath Nominee [28]
Rita Woods The Last Dreamwalker Nominee [28]

Nonfiction

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General nonfiction

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Nonfiction winners, finalists, and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2002 Ken Wiwa In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy Winner
A'Lelia Bundles On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker Finalist
Paul Robeson Jr. The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey, 1898–1939 Finalist
Michael Datcher Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story Nominee
bell hooks Salvation: Black People and Love Nominee
Dwight McBride Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony Nominee
2003 Elizabeth McHenry Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies Winner
Karla FC Holloway Passed On: African American Mourning Stories Finalist
Carole Merritt The Herndons: An Atlanta Family Finalist
Lawrence Jackson Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius Nominee
Leon E. Wynter American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America Nominee
2004 Wil Haygood In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Winner
Lynne Duke Mandela, Mobutu and Me Finalist
E. Patrick Johnson Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity Finalist
Valerie Boyd Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Nominee
Susan Fales-Hill Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful Nominee
Regina Louise Somebody's Someone Nominee
2005 Alexis De Veaux Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde Winner [7]
Debra J. Dickerson The End of Blackness Finalist
Howard French A Continent for the Taking Finalist
Elizabeth Alexander The Black Interior Nominee
Sheryll Cashin The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream Nominee
Ellis Cose Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge Nominee
2006 John Hope Franklin Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin Winner [8]
Donald Bogle Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood Finalist
Lisa E. Farrington Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists Finalist
Mary Frances Berry My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Nominee
Dwight A. McBride Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality Nominee
Cheryl A. Wall Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition Nominee
2007 Wangari Maathai Unbowed: A Memoir Winner
Louis Chude-Sokei The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora Finalist
Kym Ragusa The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging Finalist
Christopher John Farley Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley Nominee
Karla F.C. Holloway BookMarks: Reading in Black and White Nominee
Walter C. Rucker The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America Nominee
Quincy Troupe The Architecture of Language Nominee
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 America Finalist
Sherrilyn Ifill On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century Finalist
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel Nominee
Jabari Asim The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why Nominee
Gerald Horne The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil and the African Slave Trade Nominee
2009 Frank B. Wilderson Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid Winner
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood Finalist
Paula J. Giddings Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching Finalist
Sheryll Cashin The Agitator’s Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African- American Family Nominee
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend Nominee
Marcus Reeves Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Nominee
2010 Robin Kelley Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Winner [15][16]
Betty DeRamus Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad Finalist
Wil Haygood Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson Finalist
Gwen Ifill The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama Nominee
James A. Miller Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial Nominee
William Julius Wilson More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City Nominee
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, 1934-1960 Finalist
Rawn James Jr. Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation Finalist
Tom Burrell Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority Nominee
Thomas Chatterton Williams Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture Nominee
Keith Gilyard John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism Nominee
2012 Tomiko Brown-Nagin Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement Winner
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America Finalist
Binyavanga Wainaina One Day I Will Write About This Place Finalist
Melissa V. Harris-Perry Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Nominee
Mark Whitaker My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir Nominee
2013 Fredrick Harris The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics Winner [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 City Nominee
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free Nominee
Ashraf H. A. Rushdy American Lynching Nominee
Heather Andrea Williams Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery Nominee
2014 Craig Wilder Ebony & Ivory Winner
Stanley Crouch Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker Finalist
Jesmyn Ward Men We Reaped Finalist
Sheri Booker Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home Nominee
William P. Jones The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights Nominee
Emily Raboteau Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Nominee
2015 Elizabeth Nunez Not For Everyday Use Winner [19][20]
Charles M. Blow Fire Shut Up in My Bones Finalist
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Finalist
Danielle Allen Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality Nominee
Saladin Ambar Malcolm X at Oxford Union Nominee
Bob Herbert Losing Our Way Nominee
2016 Pamela Newkirk Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga Winner [9]
Elizabeth Alexander The Light of the World Finalist [9]
Gerald Horne Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic Finalist [9]
Ron Stodghill Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture Nominee [9]
Harriet A. Washington Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental Illness Nominee [9]
D. Watkins The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America Nominee [9]
2017 Kali Nicole Gross Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America Winner [10]
Alondra Nelson The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, And Reconciliation After the Genome Finalist
Christina Sharpe In the Wake: On Blackness and Being Finalist
Patricia Bell-Scott The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Nominee [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 Straits Winner
Noliwe Rooks Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education Finalist
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 Supremacy Nominee
Camille T. Dungy Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History Nominee
2019 Imani Perry May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem Winner [23][24]
Stephen L. Carter Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster Finalist
Brittney Cooper Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower Finalist [23]
Wil Haygood Tigerland: 1968–1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing Nominee
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 Hope Winner [11]
Clyde Ford Think Black: A Memoir Finalist
Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals Finalist
Ben Crump Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People Nominee
Dani McClain We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood Nominee
Damon Young What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays Nominee
2021 Marcia Chatelain Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America Winner
Vincent Brown Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War Finalist
Deirdre Mask The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Finalist
Ijeoma Oluo Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Nominee
Ainissa Ramirez The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another Nominee
Natasha Trethewey Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Nominee

Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction

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Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction winners and nominees[6]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2022 Howard W. French Born in Blackness Winner [12]
Daphne Brooks Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound Nominee
Mariame Kaba We Do This Till We Free Us Nominee
2023 Mariame Burnham By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners Winner [13][14]
Robert O’Meally Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture Nominee [28]
Caleb Gayle We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power Nominee [28]
Winston James Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik Nominee [28]

Memoir/Biography

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Memoir/Biography winners and nominees[6]
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2022 Shanna Greene Benjamin Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay Winner [12]
Farah Jasmine Griffin Read Until You Understand Nominee
Marlon Peterson Bird Uncaged Nominee
2023 Ross Gay Inciting Joy Winner [13][14]
Taylor Harris This Boy We Made Nominee [28]
D. Watkins Black Boy Smile Nominee [28]
Harrison Mooney Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery Nominee [28]

Poetry

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Poetry winners, finalists, and nominees[6]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2007 Patricia Smith Teahouse of the Almighty Winner
Terrance Hayes Wind in a Box Finalist
Quincy Troupe The Architecture of Language Finalist
2008 Kyle G. Dargan Bouquet of Hungers Winner
Remica L. Bingham Conversion Nominee
A. Van Jordan Quantum Lyrics Nominee
2009 Myronn Hardy The Headless Saints Winner
Jericho Brown Please Nominee
Yusef Komunyakaa Warhorses Nominee
2010 Rita Dove Sonata Mulattica: Poems Winner [15][25]
Haki R. Madhubuti Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems Winner [15]
Samiya Bashir Gospel Nominee
Mitchell L. H. Douglas Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem Nominee
2011 Elizabeth Alexander Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 Winner [17]
Terrance Hayes Lighthead Nominee
Thomas Sayers Ellis Skin, Inc: Identity Repair Poems Nominee
2012 Evie Shockley the new black Winner
Aracelis Girmay Kingdom Animalia Nominee
Tracy K. Smith Life on Mars Nominee
2013 Lucille Clifton The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–210 Winner [18]
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise Nominee
Monica Hand me and Nina Nominee
2014 Amaud Jamaul Johnson Darktown Follies Winner
Yona Harvey Hemming the Water Finalist
A. Van Jordan The Cineaste: Poems Finalist
Remica L. Bingham What We Ask of Flesh Nominee
Adrian Matejka The Big Smoke Nominee
Carl Phillips Silverchest Nominee
2015 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Winner [19][20]
Geffrey Davis Revising the Storm Finalist
Roger Reeves King Me Finalist
Brian Gilmore We Don't Know Any Gangsters Nominee
Gregory Pardlo Digest Nominee
Willie Perdomo The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon Nominee
2016 Vievee Francis Forest Primeval Winner [9]
Kyle Dargan Honest Engine Finalist [9]
Ross Gay Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude Finalist [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 Time Nominee [9]
2017 Donika Kelly Bestiary Winner [10]
francine j. harris play dead Finalist
Phillip B. Williams Thief in the Interior Finalist
Ruth Ellen Kocher Third Voice Nominee [27]
Sjohnna McCray Rapture Nominee [27]
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib The Crown Ain't Worth Much Nominee [27]
2018 Evie Shockley Semiautomatic Winner
Nicole Sealey Ordinary Beast Finalist
Patricia Smith Incendiary Art Finalist
Kwame Dawes City of Bones Nominee
Camille T. Dungy Trophic Cascade Nominee
Shane McCrae In the Language of My Captor Nominee
2019 Terrance Hayes American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin Winner [24]
Kwoya Fagin Maples Mend Finalist [23]
Asiya Wadud Crosslight for Youngbird Finalist [23]
Chanda Feldman Approaching the Fields Nominee [23]
Monica A. Hand DiVida Nominee
Marcus Jackson Pardon My Heart Nominee
2020 Ladan Osman Exiles of Eden Winner [11]
t’ai freedom ford & More Black Finalist
Asiya Wadud Syncope Finalist
Geffrey Davis Night Angler Nominee
Eve L. Ewing 1919 Nominee
Alison Rollins Library of Small Catastrophes Nominee
2021 Rachel Eliza Griffiths Seeing the Body Winner
Tommye Blount Fantasia for the Man in Blue Finalist
Carl Phillips Pale Colors in a Tall Field Finalist
Erica Hunt Jump the Clock Nominee
John Murillo Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry Nominee
Kiki Petrosino White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia Nominee
2022 Shara McCallum No Ruined Stone Winner [12][26]
Mahogany L. Browne I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love Nominee
Teri Ellen Cross Davis More Perfect Union Nominee
Clemonce Heard Tragic City Nominee
Douglas Kearney Sho Nominee
Yusef Komunyakaa Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth Nominee
2023 Courtney Faye Taylor Concentrate Winner [13][14]
Cheryl Boyce Taylor We Are Not Wearing Helmets Nominee [28]
Robin Coste Lewis To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness Nominee [28]
Renee Gladman Plans for Sentences Nominee [28]
Isaiah A. Hines Null Landing Nominee [28]
Roger Reeves Best Barbarian Nominee [28]

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