Timeline

2000s

2000

Gaines, Ernest Lifetime Achievement Award

Lee, Chang-rae A Gesture Life

Said, Edward Out of Place

2001

Clifton, Lucille Lifetime Achievement Award

Lewis, David Levering The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963

Toole, F.X.Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

2002

Jones, Quincy Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

Jordan, Vernon Vernon Can Read

Whitehead, Colson John Henry Days

Wright, Jay Lifetime Achievement Award

2003

Carter, Stephen L. The Emperor of Ocean Park

Kennedy, Adrienne Lifetime Achievement Award

Power, Samantha A Problem for Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Vazirani, Reetika World Hotel

2004

Berlin, IraGenerations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves

Jones, Edward P.The Known World

LeBlanc, Adrian NicoleRandom Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Walcott, DerekLifetime Achievement Award

2005

Danticat, EdwidgeThe Dew Breaker

Van Jordan, A.M*A*C*N*O*L*I*A

Ward, Geoffrey C.Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Wilson, AugustLifetime Achievement Award

2006

Demby, WilliamLifetime Achievement Award

Lepore, JillNew York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan

Smith, ZadieOn Beauty

2007

Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziHalf of a Yellow Sun

Branch, TaylorAt Canaan’s Edge

Collins, MarthaBlue Front

Reynolds Nelson, ScottSteel Drivin' Man

2008

Diaz, JunotThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Hamid, MohsinThe Reluctant Fundamentalist

Hirsi Ali, AyaanInfidel

Kelley, WilliamLifetime Achievement