NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award Logo The NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature: Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry , and Youth/Teens.

You may print a list of all the award-winning and nominated books. Learn more at the NAACP Image Awards website.


8 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2021

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

List Price: $35.00
Liveright Publishing Corporation (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Winner - Children

She Was the First!: The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm
by Katheryn Russell-Brown, Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

List Price: $35.00
Lee & Low Books (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Debut Author

We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah E. Cummings

List Price: $35.00
Harper (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Fiction

The Awkward Black Man
by Walter Mosley

List Price: $35.00
Grove Press (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Instructional

Vegetable Kingdom
by Bryant Terry

List Price: $35.00
Ten Speed Press (Oct 20, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 640 pages
Target Age Group: Picture Book
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Winner - Nonfiction

Winner - Poetry

Winner - Youth/Teens