Black History Month 2009 - African American Award Winning Authors
African American Literary Awards 2008, Fiction
Too Little, Too Late by Victoria Murray - "Juicy Jasmine Larson Bush returns....Murray efficiently illustrates the importance of honesty and trust in marriage, and manages to contain Jasmine's outrageousness within the context of Christian faith."— Publishers Weekly
Stephen E. Henderson Award
African American Literature & Culture Society 2008, Fiction
Bass Cathedral by Nathaniel Mackey - "In the fourth installment of this National Book Award–winning poet and novelist's ongoing epistolary work of fiction, Mackey (Splay Anthem) is never shy of the unwieldy or the recondite, plunging readers into the heady thoughts of N., narrating letter writer and member of the fictional early '80s jazz ensemble Molino m'Atet, who are releasing their first album, Orphic Bend."— Publishers Weekly
BCALA Literary Awards 2008, Fiction
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
New England White by Stephen L. Carter - "Two lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter's bestselling first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)—husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle—take center stage in his second, a compelling, literate page-turner that effortlessly blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America."— Publishers Weekly
Essence Literary Awards 2008, Fiction
Red River by Lalita Tademy - "The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"—Provided by publisher.
Too Little, Too Late by Victoria Murray - "Juicy Jasmine Larson Bush returns....Murray efficiently illustrates the importance of honesty and trust in marriage, and manages to contain Jasmine's outrageousness within the context of Christian faith."— Publishers Weekly
Stephen E. Henderson Award
African American Literature & Culture Society 2008, Fiction
Bass Cathedral by Nathaniel Mackey - "In the fourth installment of this National Book Award–winning poet and novelist's ongoing epistolary work of fiction, Mackey (Splay Anthem) is never shy of the unwieldy or the recondite, plunging readers into the heady thoughts of N., narrating letter writer and member of the fictional early '80s jazz ensemble Molino m'Atet, who are releasing their first album, Orphic Bend."— Publishers Weekly
BCALA Literary Awards 2008, Fiction
Black Caucus of the American Library Association
New England White by Stephen L. Carter - "Two lesser characters from Yale law professor Carter's bestselling first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park (2002)—husband and wife Lemaster and Julia Carlyle—take center stage in his second, a compelling, literate page-turner that effortlessly blends a gripping whodunit with complex discussions of politics and race in contemporary America."— Publishers Weekly
Essence Literary Awards 2008, Fiction
Red River by Lalita Tademy - "The intertwining stories of two Louisiana families--three generations of African-American men--and their struggles to make a place for themselves in a country deeply divided in the aftermath of the Civil War and beyond"—Provided by publisher.
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