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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

2002 Hurston/Wright LEGACY AwardT Nominees

The 2002 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards will be presented Saturday, October 5th in Washington, D.C. A winner and two finalists in the categories of Fiction, Debut Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced and will receive the following prizes:

  • Winner: $10,000
  • Finalists: $5,000 each

The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is presented in parternship with Borders Books and Music. Writers Terry McMillan, Nathan McCall, Russell Banks, and Chinua Achebe will be among the special guests at the awards program, and actress S. Epatha Merkerson of NBC's "Law and Order" will be our host.

Attend the Awards Ceremony!

To be added to the invitation list for the Legacy Awards Ceremony please email us at info@hurston-wright.org with your name and address, no later than August 15, 2002. (Tickets are $125.00 per person and are a tax deductible contribution to the Hurston/Wright Foundation.)

 

And the Nominees Are:

Fiction Nominees

Erasure
by Percival Everett

(University Press of New England)/ Hyperion
(paperback)

Bombingham
by Anthony Grooms

(Simon and Schuster)/One World
(paperback)

The Warmest December
by Bernice L. McFadden
(Dutton)/ Plume
(paperback)

He Sleeps
by Reginald McKinight

(Henry Holt)/ Picador
(paperback)
Fearless Jones
by Walter Mosley

(Little Brown)/Warner Books
(paperback)
October Suite
by Maxine Clair
(Random House)

 

Debut Fiction Nominees

The Red Moon
by Kuwana Haulsey
(Villiard)

Breathing Room
by Patricia Elam
(Simon and Schuster)/Pocket Books
(paperback)

The Dying Ground
by Nicelle D. Tramble
(Villiard/Strivers Row)

Break Any Woman Down
by Dana Johnson
(University of Georgia Press)
Greenwichtown
by Joyce Palmer

(St. Martin's Press)/Griffin Trade Paper
Gabriel's Story
by David Anthony Durham
(Doubleday)/Anchor
(paperback)

 

Nonfiction Nominees

Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story
by Michael Datcher

(Penguin Putnam)

The Undiscovered Paul Robeson
by Paul Robeson, Jr.
( John Wiley and Sons)

Salvation: Black People and Love
by Bell Hooks
(William Morrow)/Harper Perennial
(paperback)

Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism and Slave Testimony
by Dwight A. McBride
(New York University Press)
In The Shadow of A Saint:
A Son's Journey To Understand His Father's Legacy

by Ken Wiwa

Steerforth Press
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J Walker
by A'Lelia Bundles

(Scribner)/Washington Square Press
(paperback)

 

 
 
 
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