The Texas Book Festival sends a heartfelt congratulations to the authors nominated for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards. The awards ceremony will air on BET Saturday, March 27 at 8:00 PM ET, and non-televised award categories will live stream between March 22 and 26.
Among the books nominated this year are many penned by authors who’ve presented to Texas Book Festival audiences throughout the years, including Michael Eric Dyson (TBF 2016), Ibrim X. Kendi (TBF 2019), Walter Mosley (TBF 2018, 2014), Barack Obama (TBF 2006), Tochi Onyebuchi (TBF 2019), Jason Reynolds (TBF 2017), Eric Velasquez (TBF 2019), and Jacqueline Woodson (TBF 2018).
Three of the nominations are for books featured at the TBF 2020 Virtual Festival:
- Fiction: Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
- Debut Author: Brittany Barnett, A Knock at Midnight
- Youth/Teens: Nic Stone, Dear Justyce
The full list of nominees can be found here and below.
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Driving While Black by Gretchen Sorin
Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
We’re Better Than This by Elijah Cummings
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
A Knock at Midnight by Brittany Barnett
Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World by Cole Brown
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
We’re Better Than This by Elijah Cummings
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Crown)
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice by Deborah Draper
The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Willie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL’s First Black Player by Willie O’Ree
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Space by Valerie Harrison
Living Lively by Haile Thomas
The Black Foster Youth Handbook by Ángela Quijada-Banks
The Woman God Created You to Be: Finding Success Through Faith–Spiritually, Personally, and Professionally by Kimberla Lawson Roby
Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
Homie by Danez Smith
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo
Seeing the Body by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
The Age of Phillis by Honorée Jeffers
Un-American by Hafizah Geter
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
I Promise by LeBron James, Nina Mata
Just Like a Mama by Alice Faye Duncan, Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
Kamala Harris: Rooted in Justice by Nikki Grimes and Laura Freeman
She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown and Eric Velasquez
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta and Frank Morrison
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Dear Justyce by Nic Stone
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginningby Ibrim X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
This Is Your Time by Ruby Bridges