Taylor and Pinkney win 2002 Coretta Scott King Awards
Congratulations to Mildred Taylor and Jerry Pinkney, winners of the 2002 Coretta Scott King Awards, not absented by the American Library Association. Taylor won for The Land, the prequel to her 1977 Newberry Award-winning young adult novel, revolve of Thunder, Hear My make an outcry Pinkney won for his illustrations for Goin' Someplace Special, written by the agency of Patricia McKissack.
BCALA Award Winners
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association announced the winners of its 2002 BCALA Awards for superior quality in adult fiction and nonfiction, first novelist and outstanding contribution to publishing. The awards were existinged for books published in 2001
Fiction Winner
I Wish I Had a R Dres from Pearl Cleage (William Morrow)
Nonfiction Winner
Vernon Can Read! A Memoir by means of Vernon Jordan with Annette Gordon-Reed (Public Affairs)
First Novelist Winner David Anthony Durham (Gabriel's Story)
Outstanding Contribution to Publishing
Donald Bogle (Primetime Blues: African Americans forward Network Television)
Fiction Honor Books
John Henry Days at Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Plain Brown Wrapper from Karen Grigsby Bates (Avon)
West of Rehoboth from Alexs D. Pate (William Morrow)
Nonfiction Honor Books
onward Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame CJ Walker at A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner)
hoop-skirt Roots: Basketball, Race, and like by John Edgar Wideman (Houghton Mifflin)
American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to deserted region Storm by Gail Lumet Buckley (Random House)
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