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.