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This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author.

Winners and finalists[edit]

Award winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
2007 Hill Harper Letters to a Young Brother Winner [1]
Lisa Jones Johnson A Dead Man Speaks Nominee [1]
Charlene A. Porter Boldfaced Lies Nominee [1]
Dwight Fryer The Legend of Quito Road Nominee [1]
Bil Carpenter Uncloudy Days: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia Nominee [1]
2008 Victoria Rowell The Women Who Raised Me: A Memoir Winner [2]
Dinaw Mengestu The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears Nominee [3]
Robin Givens Grace Will Lead Me Home Nominee [3]
Ravi Howard “Like Trees, Walking” Nominee [3]
Ishmael Beah A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Nominee [3]
2009 David Glenn Brown Barack, Race, and the Media: Drawing My Own Conclusion Winner [4][5]
2010 Reginald Dwayne Betts A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison Winner [6]
BeNeca Ward 3rd Generation Country Nominee [7]
Attica Locke Black Water Rising Nominee [7]
Farai Chideya Kiss the Sky Nominee [7]
Amanda Smyth Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange Nominee [7]
2011 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Winner [8]
2012 Shirley Strawberry The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy Winner [9]
Denise Hall Brown 2Grieve 2Gether: A Journal from the Heart Helping Survivors and Supporters Navigate the Healing Process Nominee [9]
Justin Torres We the Animals Nominee [9]
Patricia Duncan Defining Moment: Barack Obama: The Historical Journey to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Nominee [9]
Shella Gillus The Loom Nominee [9]
2013 Darryl L. Lacy Nikki G: A Portrait of Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Words Winner [10]
Mayi Ngwala and Allain Ngwala Congo: Spirit of Darkness (Volume 1) Nominee [10][11]
R. Kayeen Thomas Antebellum Nominee [10][11]
Sonia Jackson Myles The Sister Accord: 51 Ways to Love Your Sister Nominee [10][11]
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats Nominee [10][11]
2014 Sheri Booker Nine Years Under Winner [12]
Hannah Weyer On the Come Up: A Novel, Based on a True Story Nominee [12]
Jason Mott The Returned Nominee [12]
Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go Nominee [12]
2015 Dwayne Alexander Smith Forty Acres Winner [13]
Darrell Miller The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame Nominee [13]
Morowa Yejide Time of the Locust Nominee [13]
Natalie Baszile Queen Sugar Nominee [13]
Toni Ann Johnson Remedy for a Broken Angel Nominee [13]
2016 Chigozie Obioma The Fishermen Winner [14]
Angela Flournoy The Turner House Nominee [14]
April Ryan The Presidency in Black and White: My Up-Close View of Three Presidents and Race in America Nominee [14]
Naomi Jackson The Star Side of Bird Hill Nominee [14]
Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken Nominee [14]
2017 Trevor Noah Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Winner [15]
Lisa Fenn Carry On Nominee [15]
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court Nominee [15]
Natashia Deón Grace Nominee [15]
Cory Booker United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good Nominee [15]
2018 Stephanie Powell Watts No One Is Coming to Save Us Winner [16]
Devin Allen A Beautiful Ghetto Nominee [16]
Leland Melvin Chasing Spaces: An Astronaut’s Story of Grit, Grace & Second Chances Nominee [16]
Patricia Williams, with Jeannine Amber Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat Nominee [16]
Gabrielle Union We're Going to Need More Wine Nominee [16]
2019 David Mann and Shaun Sanders Us Against the World: Our Secrets to Love, Marriage, and Family Winner [17]
Gaël Faye Small Country Nominee [17]
Janet Dewart Bell Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement Nominee [17]
Nafissa Thompson-Spires Heads of the Colored People (paperback) Nominee [17]
Sheila Brooks and Clint C. Wilson II Lucile H. Bluford and the Kansas City Call: Activist Voice for Social Justice Nominee [17]
2020 Hal Banfield I Am Dance: Words and Images of the Black Dancer Winner [18]
Erica Campbell More Than Pretty: Doing the Soul Work That Uncovers Your True Beauty Nominee [18]
Lauren Wilkinson American Spy Nominee [18]
Joanne Ramos The Farm Nominee [18]
Kiley Reid Such a Fun Age Nominee [18]
2021 Elijah E. Cummings We’re Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy Winner [19]
Brittany K. Barnett A Knock at Midnight Nominee [20]
Cole Brown Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World Nominee [20]
Megan Giddings Lakewood Nominee [20]
Walter Thompson-Hernández The Compton Cowboys Nominee [20]
2022 Cicely Tyson Just As I Am Winner [21][22]
Katherine Johnson My Remarkable Journey Nominee [22]
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Nominee [22]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois Nominee [22]
Rebecca Hall Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts Nominee [22]
2023 George McCalman Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen Winner [23]
Boyah J. Farah America Made Me a Black Man Nominee [24]
Ekemini Uwan, Christina Edmondson, and Michelle Higgins Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musings on Life, Love, and Liberation Nominee [24]
Kai Harris What the Fireflies Knew Nominee [24]
Kevin Fredericks and Melissa Fredericks Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner Nominee [24]
2024 Krystle Zara Appiah Rootless Winner [25]
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu And Then He Sang a Lullaby Nominee [26]
Kim Coleman Foote Coleman Hill Nominee [26]
Kleaver Cruz The Black Joy Project Nominee [26]
Breanne McIvor The God of Good Looks Nominee [26]

References[edit]

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