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Black Caucus of the American Library
Association Literary Awards
Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards from fiction to outstanding contribution to publishing citation.
2008
- Fiction: New England White, Stephen L. Carter (Knopf);
Honor Book: Cold Running Creek, Zelda Lockhart (LaVenson
Press)
- Nonfiction: Ralph Ellison: A Biography, Arnold
Rampersad (Knopf); Honor Books: Supreme Discomfort: The
Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, Kevin Merida and Michael A.
Fletcher (Doubleday); Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie
Smith, Tommie Smith with David Steele (Temple University Press)
- First Novelist: The Rise: Where Neighbors Are Sometimes
More, (Lion's Den Publishing)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Let Your
Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits, Deborah Willis
(Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and
Culture)
2007
- Fiction: After, A Novel, Marita Golden (Doubleday);
Honor Books: Fortunate Son, Walter Mosley (Little Brown);
Jump at the Sun, Kim McLarin (HarperCollins)
- Nonfiction: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream, Barack Obama (Crown); Honor Books: A
Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown (Crown); Medical Apartheid: The Dark
History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial
Times to the Present, Harriett A. Washington (Doubleday)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Legacy:
Treasures of Black History (National Geographic Press)
2006
- Fiction: Third Girl from the Left, Martha Southgate
(Houghton Mifflin); Honor Books: Snake Walkers, J. Everett
Prewitt (Northland); I Got Somebody in Staunton, William Henry
Lewis (Amistad)
- Nonfiction: Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of
African Muslims in the Americas, Michael A. Gomez (Cambridge
University Press); Honor Books: Fighting for America: Black
Soldiers—The Unsung Heroes of World War II, Christopher Paul
Moore (One World); Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery
and Freedom, Heather Andrea Williams (University of North Carolina
Press); Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban
Modernity, Jacqueline Stewart (University of California Press)
- First Novelist: Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas
(Agate)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Creating
Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, Lisa
E. Farrington (Oxford University Press)
2005
- Fiction: Leaving Cecil Street, Diane
McKinney-Whetstone (William Morrow); Honor Books: Robbing
Peter, Kia DuPree (Prism Pages); Some People, Some Other Place,
J. California Cooper (Doubleday); The Blackbird Papers, Ian
Smith (Doubleday)
- Nonfiction: A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and
Hope of Africa, Howard French (Alfred A. Knopf); Honor Books:
Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press,
Melba Joyce Boyd (Columbia University Press); Black Titan: A. G.
Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, Carol Jenkins
and Elizabeth Gardner (One World)
- First Novelist: The Darkest Child, Delores Phillips
(Soho)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Speak, So
You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal Hurston, Lucy Anne
Hurston (Doubleday)
2004
- Fiction: Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud
(Doubleday) Honor Books: Loving Donovan, Bernice McFadden
(Dutton); Joshua's Bible, Shelly Leanna (Warner Books)
- Nonfiction: In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis,
Jr., Wil Haygood (Knopf); Honor Books: Freedom in the
Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights,
Tananarive Due & Patricia Stephens Due (Ballantine); Ella Baker
and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara
Ransby (UNC Press)
- First Novelist: The Known World, Edward P. Jones
(Amistad)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Colored
Pictures: Race and Visual Representations, Michael D. Harris (UNC
Press)
2003
- Fiction: Douglass Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Atria/Simon & Schuster); Honor Books: Wisdom, Heather
Neff (One World/Ballantine); P.G. County, Connie Briscoe
(Doubleday); You Know Better, Tina McElroy Ansa (William
Morrow)
- Nonfiction: Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History
of African American Literary Societies, Elizabeth McHenry (Duke
University Press); Honor Books: Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea:
Poems and Not Quite Poems, Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow);
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, edited by
Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris (Harlem Moom/Broadway Books); The
Herndons: An Atlanta Family, Carole Merritt (University of Georgia
Press)
- First Novelist: The Emperor of Ocean Park, Stephen L.
Carter (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: We Shall
not Be Moved: The Passage from the Great Migration to the Million Man
March, Velma Maia Thomas (Crown)
2002
- Fiction: I Wish I Had a Red Dress, Pearl Cleage
(William Morrow); Honor Books: John Henry Days, A Novel,
Colson Whitehead (Doubleday); Plain Brown Wrapper: An Alex Powell
Novel, Karen Grigsby Bates (Avon Books); West of Rehoboth,
Alexs D. Pates (William Morrow)
- Nonfiction: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, Vernon E.
Jordan (PublicAffairs); Honor Books: On Her Own Ground: The
Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker, A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner);
Hoops Roots: Basketball, Race and Love, John Edgar Wideman (Houghton
Mifflin); American Patriots: The Story of Black in the Military from
the Revolution to Desert Storm, Gail Lumet Buckley (Random
House)
- First Novelist: Gabriel's Story, David Anthony Durham
(Doubleday)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Primetime
Blues: African Americans On Network Television, Donald Bogle
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
2001
- Fiction: The Fisher King, Paule Marshall (Scribner);
Honor Books: All of Me, Venise Berry (Dutton); Sugar,
Bernice McFadden (Dutton)
- Nonfiction: Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to
Emancipation, Larry Eugene Rivers (University Press of Florida);
Honor Books: The Art and History of Black Memorabilia,
Larry W. Buster (Clarkson Potter); Step into a World: A Global
Anthology of New Black Literature, edited by Kevin Powell (John
Wiley & Sons)
- First Novelist: Where I'm Bound, Allen Br. Ballard
(Simon & Schuster)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: W.E.B. Du
Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919–1963,
David Levering Lewis (Henry Holt & Co.)
2000
- Fiction: Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, Valerie
Wilson Wesley (Avon Books); Honor Books: Those Bones Are Not
My Child, Ton Cade (Pantheon Books); The Ghost, March Olden
(Simon & Schuster); Imani All Mine, Connie Porter (Houghton
Mifflin); On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems, Rita Dove (W. W.
Norton & Co.)
- Nonfiction: Homeland and Waterways: The American Journey
of the Bond Family 1846–1926, Adele Logan Alexander (Pantheon
Books); Honor Books: B. Smith: Rituals & Celebrations,
Barbara Smith (Random House); Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to
African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity, Dee Parmer
Woodtor (Random House)
- First Novelist: Inner City Blues, Paula Woods (W. W.
Norton & Co.)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Africana:
The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience,
edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Basic Civitas
Books)
1999
- Fiction: The Healing, Gayl Jones (Beacon Press);
Honor Books: A Toast Before Dying: A Mali Anderson
Mystery, Grace F. Edwards (Doubleday); See No Evil, Eleanor
Taylor Bland (St. Martin's Press)
- Nonfiction: Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African
American Quilts, Carolyn Mazloomi (Clarkson Potter); Honor Books:
Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary, Juan Williams
(Times Books); Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers, Keith
Michael Brown (Little, Brown)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: The
History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race,
Entrepreneurship, Juliet E. K. Walker (Macmillan)
1998
- Fiction: The River Where Blood Is Born, Sandra
Jackson-Opoku, (One World/Ballantine); Honor Books: Only Twice
I've Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner Trice (Crown); The Thang That
Ate My Grandaddy's Dog, John Calvin Rainey (Pineapple Press);
Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, Virginia DeBerry and Donna
Grant (St. Martin's Press)
- Nonfiction: The Black Notebook: An Interior Journey,
Toi Derricotte (Norton); Honor Books: Jackie Robinson: A
Biography, Arnold Rampersad (Knopf); Lest We Forget: The Passage
from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three Dimensional Interactive
Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust
Exhibit, Velma Maia Thomas (Crown); An Original Man: The Life and
Times of Elijah Muhammad, Claude Andrew Clegg (St. Martin's
Press)
- First Novelist: The View from Here, Brian Keith
Jackson (Washington Square Press)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Black
Classic Press
1997
- Fiction: Sarah's Psalm, Florence Ladd (Scribner);
Honor Books: Flight of the Blackbird, Faye McDonald Smith
(Scribner); Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called
Home, Derrick Bell (Basic Books)
- Nonfiction: Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol, Nell
Irvin Painter (Norton); Honor Books: America Is Me,
Kennell Jackson (HarperCollins); Deep Sightings and Rescue
Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations, Toni Cade Bambara and
edited by Toni Morrison (Pantheon)
- First Novelist: Push, Sapphire (Knopf)
1996
- Fiction: RL's Dream, Walter Mosley (W. W. Norton);
Honor Book: The Good Negress, A. J. Verdelle (Algonquin
Books of Chapel Hill)
- Nonfiction: Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in
America, edited by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen (One
World/Ballantine Books)
- First Novelist: An Open Weave, devorah majors (Seal
Press)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Spooks,
Spies, and Private Eyes: The Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense
Fiction, edited by Paula L. Woods (Bantam Doubleday)
1995
- Fiction: Rattlebone, Maxine Clair (Farrar, Straus,
Giroux); Honor Books: I Hear a Symphony: African Americans
Celebrate Love, Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell (Anchor
Books)
- Nonfiction: I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and
Liberation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Addison-Wesley); Honor
Books: Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by
African-Americans, edited by James Melvin Washington (Harper
Collins); Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood, Gerald Early
(Addison-Wesley)
- First Novelist: The Serpent's Gift, Helen Elaine Lee
(Atheneum)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Feeling
the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Chester
Higgins, Jr. (Bantam)
1994
- Fiction: A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines
(Knopf); Honor Books: Getting Right with God, Lionel
Newton (Dutton); Free Enterprise, Michelle Cliff (Dutton)
- Nonfiction: W.E.B. DuBois: Biography of a Race
1868–1919, David Levering Lewis (Holt); Honor Books:
Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life
Unveiled, Thadious Davis (Louisiana State University Press)
- First Novelist: Losing Absalom, Alexs D. Pate (Coffee
House Press)
- Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Black
Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Darlene C.
Hine (Carlson Publishing)
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