Prometheus 6

Black Men And Women Of Their Words
Franklin, Rawles Among Literary Award Winners
By DeNeen L. Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 4, 2006; C01

Literary awards were bestowed on a new generation of black writers last night, heavy awards given in the heavy names of Zora and Richard.

Nancy Rawles won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the fiction category for "My Jim," a first-person account of Sadie, the wife of the runaway slave in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn."

Historian John Hope Franklin won in nonfiction category for his autobiography, "Mirror to America."