Hurston-Wright Legacy Award
The Hurston-Wright Legacy Award is a literary award given by the National Community of Black Writers.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is the first national award given to black American writers. The award namesakes are two of the most influential black authors, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright.
2007 Winners and Finalists
Fiction
Nonfiction
- Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
- The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei
- The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging by Kym Ragusa
Debut Fiction
Poetry
2006 Winners and Finalists
Fiction
Nonfiction
- Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin by John Hope Franklin
- Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood by Donald Bogle
- Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists by Lisa E. Farrington
Debut Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
- The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries by Clyde W. Ford
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