LITERATURE CATEGORIES
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction • “Blood Colony: A Novel” – Tananarive Due (Atria Books/Simon
& Schuster)
• “Going Down South: A Novel” – Bonnie J. Glover (Random
House/One World/Ballentine)
• “In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel” – Blair
Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes (Atria Books/
Simon & Schuster)
• “Just Too Good to Be True” – E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday)
• “Song Yet Sung” – James McBride (Riverhead Books)
Outstanding Literary Work –
Non-Fiction
• “Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom” – Cornel West
(Smiley Books)
• “Letter to My Daughter” – Maya Angelou (Random House)
• “Moving to Higher Ground” – Wynton Marsalis, Geoffrey Ward
(Random House)
• “The Sea is So Wide And My Boat Is So Small” – Marian Wright
Edelman (Hyperion)
• “There’s No Traffic on the Extra Mile: Lessons on the Road
From Dreams to Destiny” – Rickey Minor (Gotham Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut
Author
• “Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion” –
David Glenn Brown (David G. Brown Studios)
• “The Beautiful Struggle” – Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel and Grau)
• “Homeroom Heroes: Freshman Edition” – Michael B. Jordan,
Rahfeal Gordan (RahGor Publishing)
• “No Way Home” – Carlos Acosta (Scribner)
• “War of the Blood In My Veins” – Dashaun “Jiwe” Morris
(Scribner)
Outstanding Literary Work –
Biography/Auto-Biography
• “21 Nights” – Prince (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• “Baldwin’s Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin” – Herb
Boyd (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• “The Black List” – Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Elvis Mitchell
(Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• “The Legs Are The Last To Go” – Diahann Carroll (Amistad)
• “Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration” – Marcia Ann Gillespie,
Rosa Johnson Butler, Richard A. Long (Doubleday)
Outstanding Literary Work –
Instructional
• “32 Ways To Be A Champion In Business” – Earvin “Magic”
Johnson (Crown Business)
• “The Black Male Handbook: A Blueprint for Life” – Kevin Powell
(Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
• “Dining In” – G. Garvin (Meredith Books)
• “Good is not Enough and Other Unwritten Rules for Minority
Professionals” – Keith R. Wyche (Portfolio/Centennial)
• “Tapping the Power Within: A Path To Self-Empowerment For
Women” – Iyanla Vanzant (Smiley Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry • “Hardheaded Weather” – Cornelius Eady (Marian Wood Books)
• “Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration of “Poetry With A
Beat” – Nikki Giovanni (Source Books/Jabberwocky)
• “Honoring the Ancestors” – James Cherry (Third World Press)
• “Things I Must Have Known” – A B Spellman (Coffee House
Press)
• “Warhorses” – Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

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