Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
3 books won both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award between 2008 and 2024, most recently Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street (2024/2024). 16 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Dayton Literary Peace Prize · Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
Won both
| Book | Author | Dayton Literary Peace Prize | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award |
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| Built From the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street | Victor Luckerson |
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| Brother, I'm Dying | Edwidge Danticat |
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| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Dayton Literary Peace Prize | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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| Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | James Hannaham |
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| Tigerland | Wil Haygood |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
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| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
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| Delicious Foods | James Hannaham |
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| An Untamed State | Roxane Gay |
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| Land of Love and Drowning | Tiphanie Yanique |
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| Men We Reaped | Jesmyn Ward |
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| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward |
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| How to Read the Air | Dinaw Mengestu |
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| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson |
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| Say You’re One of Them | Uwem Akpan |
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| Song Yet Sung | James McBride |
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| The Wizard of the Crow | Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
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| Unbowed: A Memoir | Wangari Maathai |
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