Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Winners
A brief selection of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award Winners.
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. (BCALA) Literary Awards acknowledges outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction for adult audiences by African American authors.
2010
Winners
Fiction category: Buying Time by Pamela Samuels Young
Fiction Honor Books: Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead & Carried by Six by Allen Ballard
Non-fiction category: The Breakthrough by Gwen Ifill
Non-Fiction Honor Book: Freedom Struggles by Adriane
Lentz-Smith
First Novelist Award: K.C. Marshall for My Sister’s Veil
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation:
In Search of Our Roots by Henry Louis Gates
2009 Winners

Fiction category: Trading Dreams at Midnight by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Fiction Honor Books: Seen it All and Done the Rest by Pearl Cleage & Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward
Non-fiction category: Ida: A Sword Among
Lions by Paula J. Giddings
Non-fiction Honor book: Letter To My Daughter by Maya Angelou
First Novelist Award: Carleen Brice for Orange Mint and Honey
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida.
Past winners include:

New England White, Stephen L. Carter, (Fiction, 2008)
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, Barack Obama, (Non-Fiction, 2007)
Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, (Fiction, 2005)
The Known World, Edward P. Jones, (First Novelist, 2004)
Douglass Women, Jewell Parker Rhodes, (Fiction, 2003)
A complete list of Past BCALA Literary Award Winners is available at
this
site.

