NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction. Maya Angelou, Michael Eric Dyson, and Barack Obama hold the record for most wins in this category, with two each.

2000s +Award winners, 2002-2009 Year Book Author Result 2002 Sally Hemings, An American Scandal Winner2003 Keeping the Faith Winner Finalist Bill Clinton and Black America Growing Up X Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters 2004 Why I Love Black Women Winner2005 Hallelujah! The Welcome Table Winner2006 Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Winner Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir Finalist and Myrlie Evers-Williams 50 Years After Brown: The State of Black Equality in America Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America 2007 Winner Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster Finalist Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete Not in My Family: AIDS in the African American Community 2008 Not on Our Watch and John PrendergastWinner Finalist Brother, I'm Dying Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-Americans 2009 Letter to My Daughter Winner

2010s +Award winners, 2010-2019 Year Book Author Result 2010 In Search of Our Roots Winner Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum Finalist Our Choice Brain Surgeon: A Doctor's Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles and Keith Black Family Affair: What It Means to Be African American Today 2011 Winner Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority Finalist Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History 2012 Winner Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America Finalist Super Rich Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now Touré2013 Winner Fraternity Finalist Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones 2014 Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery and Barbara KrauthamerWinner Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations: 5,000 Years of Literature, Lyrics, Poems, Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs from Voices Around the World Finalist High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society Letters to an Incarcerated Brother: Encouragement, Hope, and Healing for Inmates and Their Loved Ones and Donald Yacovone2015 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption Winner Bad Feminist Finalist Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America Who We Be: The Colorization of America 2016 Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga Winner 50 Billion Dollar Boss: African American Women Sharing Stories of Success in Entrepreneurship and Leadership and Andrea HoffmanFinalist Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America 2017 Hidden Figures Winner Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Finalist Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White and Raymond Obstfeld2018 Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies (posthumous)Winner Black Detroit – A People’s History of Self-DeterminationFinalist Chokehold: Policing Black MenWe Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy2019 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics , Yolanda Caraway, Leah D. Daughtry, Minyon Moore, Veronica ChambersWinner Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Finalist Black Girls Rock! Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem and Lara Love Hardin

2020s +Award winners, 2020-present Year Book Author Result 2020 Winner Breathe: A Letter to My Sons Finalist STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essay 2021 Winner and Kali Nicole GrossFinalist Driving While Black Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America We're Better Than This 2022WinnerDance Theatre of Harlem and Paul Novosel FinalistJust As I Am My Remarkable Journey Renegades: Born in the USA and Bruce Springsteen 2023Finding MeWinnerGrace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America FinalistUnder the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race and Andrew S. CurranRequiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre 2024 and Charly PalmerWinnerBlack AF History: The Un–Whitewashed Story of AmericaFinalistBLK ART: The Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western ArtIconic Home: Interiors, Advice, and Stories from 50 Amazing Black DesignersBlack Interior Designers and June Reese2025Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle NearestWinnerPassionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune FinalistPicturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World , Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle and Steven Conn The 1619 Project: A Visual Experience and The New York Times MagazineThe Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie Transformed America 2026A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm & Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics WinnerBorn in Flames FinalistFrom These Roots Hidden Hospitality: Untold Stories of Black Hotel, Motel, and Resort Owners from the Pioneer Days to the Civil Rights Era I Am Nobody’s Slave Lee Hawkins

Multiple wins and nominations Wins 2 wins Maya Angelou Michael Eric Dyson Barack Obama

Nominations

5 nominations Michael Eric Dyson

3 nominations Maya Angelou

2 nominations Henry Louis Gates Jr. Hill Harper Barack Obama Gil L. Robertson Tavis Smiley Imani Perry

References

NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Nonfiction

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