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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

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2005 Nominees

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Fiction

Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?
(Atria Books)

by Maryse Conde
The Dew Breaker
(Alfred A. Knopf)

by Edwidge Danticat
American Desert
(Hyperion)

by Percival Everett
Links
(Riverhead Books)

by Nuruddin Farah
The Madonna of Excelsior
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)

by Zake Mda
The Man in My Basement
(Little Brown & Company)

by Walter Mosley

 

Debut Fiction
Graceland
(Farrar, Straus & Giruox)

by Chris Abani
The Darkest Child
(Soho Press, Inc.)

by Delores Phillips
The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
(Amistad)

by Esi Edugyan

 

Nonfiction
The Black Interior
(Graywolf Press)

by Elizabeth Alexander
The Failures of Integration
(Public Affairs)

by Sheryll Cashin
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge
(Atria Books)

by Ellis Cose
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
(WW Norton)

by Alexis DeVeaux
The End of Blackness
(Pantheon Books)

by Debra J. Dickerson
A Continent for the Taking
(Alfred A. Knopf)

by Howard French

 

Contemporary Fiction
Shifting Through Neutral
(Amistad)

by Bridgett M. Davis
Bling
(Miramax Books)

by Erica Kennedy
A Woman's Worth
(One World/Ballantine Books)

by Tracy Price-Thompson