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Black Caucus Awards
The BCALA, of the American Library Association, was organized, in 1970, to promote the development of library and information services for African Americans and other people of African descent.
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The Black Caucus Literature Awards recognize excellence in adult fiction and nonfiction by African American authors published in in the previous year, recognition of a first novelist, as well as a citation for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing | Winners
Deadline for nominations is December 31. For additional information, contact BCALA Literary Awards Committee Chair, John S. Page, 3003 Van Ness St., NW, W522, Washington, DC 20008, voice: 202-274-6030, fax: 202-274-6012, email: jpage@wrlc.org
2002 Fiction Award Winner
Pearl Cleage for I Wish I Had a Red Dress | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
2002 Non-fiction Award Winner
Vernon E. Jordan for Vernon Can Read! A Memoir | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Audio CD
2002 First Novelist Award Winner
David Anthony Durham for Gabriel’s Story | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print
Fiction | Nonfiction | First Novelist | Outstanding Contribution
BCALA Outstanding Contribution Citations
2002 Donald Bogle for Primetime Blues: African Americans On Network Television | Hardcover | Paperback
2001 David
Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the
American Century 1919–1963 |
Hardcover |
Paperback | PULITZER PRIZE 2001
Biography. Note: Lewis was previously awarded the
Pulitzer, Bancroft and Parkman Prizes in 1993
for his first half of Du Bois' biography, W. E. B. Dubois :
Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 |
Out of Print Book
2000
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience
edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, jr. |
Out of Print Book
1999 The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship Juliet E. K. Walker | Hardcover | Encyclopedia of Black Business History Hardcover
1998 Black Classic Press
1997 Albert Murray: novelist, literature professor and music scholar
1996
Spooks, Spies, and Private Eyes: Black Mystery, Crime & Suspense Fiction
edited by Paula L. Woods |
Out of Print Book
1995
Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa Chester
Higgins jr. |
Out of Print Book
1994 Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia edited by Darlene C. Hine | Paperback
BCALA Fiction Awards Winners
2002 Pearl Cleage for I Wish I Had a Red Dress | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | e-book Microsoft | e-book Adobe
2001 Paule Marshall The Fisher King | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print
2000 Valerie Wilson Wesley for Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do | Paperback
1999 Gayl Jones for The Healing | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1998 Sandra Jackson-Opoku for The River Where Blood is Born | Hardcover | Paperback
1997 Florence Ladd for Sarah's Psalm | Paperback
1996
Walter Mosley for R L's Dream |
Hardcover | Paperback
|
Audio Cassette |
Audiobook
1995 Maxine Clair for Rattlebone | Paperback
1994
Ernest J. Gaines for A Lesson Before Dying | Hardcover
| Paperback
|
Audio Cassette |
Audio CD |
Audiobook
BCALA Non-Fiction Awards Winners
2002 Vernon E. Jordan for Vernon Can Read! A Memoir | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print | Audio Cassette | Audio CD
2001 Larry Eugene Rivers for Slavery In Florida: Territorial Days To Emancipation | Hardcover
2000 Adele Logan Alexander for Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family 1846-1926 | Paperback
1999 Carolyn
Mazloomi for Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American
Quilts |
Out of Print
1998 Toi Derricotte for The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey | Hardcover | Paperback
1997 Nell Irvin Painter for Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol | Hardcover | Paperback
1996 Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men In America edited by Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen | Paperback
1995
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot for I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and
Liberation |
Out of Print
1994
David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Dubois : Biography of a Race,
1868-1919 |
Out of Print
BCALA First Novelist Awards Winners
2002 David Anthony Durham for Gabriel’s Story | Hardcover | Paperback | Large Print
2001 Allen B. Ballard for Where I’m Bound | Hardcover | Paperback
2000 Paula L. Woods for Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel | Hardcover | Paperback | Audio Cassette
1999 No Award Given
1998 Brian
Keith Jackson for The View From Here |
Out of Print
1997 Sapphire for Push: A Novel | Hardcover | Paperback
1996
Devorah Major for An Open Weave |
Out of Print
1995 Helen Elaine Lee for The Serpent's Gift | Paperback
1994
Alexs D. Pate for Losing Absalom |
Out of Print
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