BCALA/GLBT Announces Book Award Winners

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/19/2001

The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the winners of several of its annual literary prizes. The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) has bestowed the BCALA Literary Award for fiction on Paul Marshall for his novel The Fisher King (Scribner). Larry Eugene Rivers won the nonfiction prize for Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation (Univ. of Florida). BCALA Fiction Honor Book prizes were awarded to Venise Berry for All of Me (Dutton) and Bernice McFadden for Sugar (Dutton) while Nonfiction Honors went to Larry V. Buster for The Art and History of Black Memorabilia (Clarkson Potter) and Step into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature, edited by Kevin Powell (Wiley). Additionally, ALA's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) Book Awards Committee selected Sarah Waters's Affinity (Penguin) as the winner of the literature award, while William N. Eskridge's Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet (Harvard Univ.) was the top title in the nonfiction category.