In honor of Black History Month, and for the second consecutive year, NBF presents a timeline of the first African Americans to become National Book Award honored authors.
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Happy birthday, Toni Morrison!
In celebration of Toni Morrison’s birthday, NBF is posting quotes throughout the day from her speech “The Dancing Mind”, delivered on her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on November 6, 1996.
Happy birthday Oprah Winfrey! To celebrate, here’s a #TBT of Oprah at the 1999 National Book Awards where she was the recipient of the 50th Anniversary Gold Medal.
Bonus #TBT: Oprah is standing next to Toni Morrison, the 1996 recipient of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
#TBT to 1953, the year Ralph Ellison became the first African American to win a National Book Award for the now classic novel Invisible Man. Upon accepting the award, Ellison said “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, but yet thrusting forth it’s images of hope, human fraternity, and individual self realization.” Read Ellison’s speech here.
Harvard University sociologist Orlando Patterson with (from left) Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Ralph Ellison, and Ellison’s wife Fanny at the 1991 National Book Awards.
That night, Patterson made history when he became the first African American to win a National Book Award for Nonfiction for his groundbreaking history book, Freedom in the Making of Western Culture.
First edition of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man on display at Penguin Random House’s headquarters. Ellison was the first African American writer to win a National Book Award.
This week, we were thrilled to announce the Longlists for the 2019 National Book Awards. These titles in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature represent some of the best writing of the year. The Finalists will be announced October 8, all in the lead up to the 70th National Book Awards on November 20.
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