NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction
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The NAACP Image Award
winners for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction:
NAACP Image Award
An NAACP Image Award is an accolade presented by the American National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to honor outstanding people of color in film, television, music, and literature....
winners for Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction:
| Year | Book | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | A Day Late and a Dollar Short | Terry McMillan Terry McMillan Terry McMillan is an American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 at University of California, Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.Her first book, Mama, was published in 1987... |
| 2003 | Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea | Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Her primary focus is on the individual and the power one has to make a difference in oneself and in the lives of others. Giovanni’s poetry expresses strong racial pride, respect for family, and her... |
| 2004 | Love Love (Toni Morrison novel) Love is the eighth novel by Toni Morrison. In her non-linear style, the lives of several women and their relationships to the late Bill Cosey unfold.... |
Toni Morrison Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved... |
| 2005 37th NAACP Image Awards The 37th Image Awards, given by NAACP on February 26, 2006, honored the best in film, television and music for 2005.The following is a listing of nominees, with winners in bold:-Film:Outstanding Motion Picture*Coach Carter* Crash ... |
Breaking the Cycle | Zane |
| 2006 38th NAACP Image Awards The 38th NAACP Image Awards honored the best in film, television and music for 2006. The show was televised live on March 2, 2007 on Fox at 8 p.m. EST at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. The show was hosted by LL Cool J. The nominees were announced on January 7, 2007, at a press... |
Baby Brother’s Blues | Pearl Cleage Pearl Cleage Pearl Cleage is an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah’s Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an... |
| 2007 | Blonde Faith | Walter Mosley Walter Mosley Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los... |
| 2008 | In the Night of the Heat: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel | Blair Underwood Blair Underwood Blair Underwood is an American television and film actor. He is perhaps best known as headstrong attorney Jonathan Rollins from the NBC legal drama L.A. Law, a role he portrayed for seven years. He has gained critical acclaim throughout his career, receiving numerous Golden Globe Award... , Tananarive Due Tananarive Due Tananarive Due is an American author.-Biography:Tananarive Priscilla Due was born in Tallahassee, Florida, the oldest of three daughters of civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due and civil rights lawyer John D. Due Jr... , Steven Barnes Steven Barnes Steven Barnes is an African American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.... |
| 2009 | The Long Fall | Walter Mosley Walter Mosley Walter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los... |