Whitehead Wins Hurston/Wright Award

Colson Whitehead won the 2017 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award in fiction for The Underground Railroad (Doubleday). The Legacy Awards, which honor “the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe,” were presented October 20, 2017 during a gala at the Washington Plaza hotel in Washington DC. Additional awards for debut fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and special merit awards were also presented.

For more information and a full list of winners, see the Hurston/Wright Foundation website.