The NAACP Image Awards
ceremony, which celebrates outstanding achievements and performances by
people of color in the arts (television, recording, literature, motion
picture and writing & directing) as well as those individuals or
groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors, was
held Friday. This year's category winners for Outstanding Literary Work are:
Fiction: Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan (Penguin)
Nonfiction: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (New Press)
Debut Author: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Biography/autobiography: You Don't Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles by Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. (Crown)
Instructional: A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life by Antwone Fisher (Touchstone)
Poetry: 100 Best African-American Poems, edited by Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
Children: My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Scholastic)
Youth/teens: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice (Random House Children's Books)
Fiction: Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan (Penguin)
Nonfiction: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (New Press)
Debut Author: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)
Biography/autobiography: You Don't Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles by Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. (Crown)
Instructional: A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life by Antwone Fisher (Touchstone)
Poetry: 100 Best African-American Poems, edited by Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
Children: My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Scholastic)
Youth/teens: Condoleezza Rice: A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me by Condoleezza Rice (Random House Children's Books)