This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Biography/Autobiography.
Winners and finalists + Award winners and nominees Year Author(s) Title Result 2007WinnerBefore the Legend: The Rise of Bob MarleyNomineeJim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero NomineeJokes My Father Never Taught MeNomineeUnbowed Nominee2008Obama: From Promise to PowerWinner, Gerald Levert, and Lyah LefloreI Got Your Back: A Father and Son Keep it Real About Love, Fatherhood, Family, and FriendshipNomineeMy Grandfather's SonNominee and David SteeleSilent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie SmithNomineeNominee2009Winner2010 and Emily Bernard Michelle Obama: The First Lady In PhotographsWinnerBrother West: Living and Loving Out LoudNomineePOPS: A Life of LouisNominee and Buzz BissingerShooting StarsNomineeStormy Weather: The Life of Lena HorneNominee2011 You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray CharlesWinner2012 and Michael Shnayerson My Song: A MemoirWinner No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in WashingtonNominee and John Wesley CarlosNomineeNominee Malcolm X: A Life Of ReinventionNominee2013Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for ChangeWinner Interventions: A Life in War and PeaceNomineeNomineeNomineeNominee2014 Winner Mom & Me & MomNominee Buck: A MemoirNominee Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie ParkerNominee Duke: A Life of Duke EllingtonNominee2015 and Louis Sullivan Breaking Ground: My Life in MedicineWinner Life in Motion: An Unlikely BallerinaNominee Stand Up Straight and Sing!Nominee and Omar Tyree Mayor For Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.Nominee Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair)Nominee2016 Between the World And MeWinner One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New YorkNominee and David Ritz After the Dance: My Life With Marvin GayeNominee Power Forward: My Presidential EducationNomineeYear of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own PersonNominee2017 Born a Crime: Stories from a South African ChildhoodWinnerAround the Way Girl: A MemoirNomineeAnswering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in AmericaNomineeInvisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, A Young Black Man's EducationNominee and Maurice WhiteMy Life with Earth, Wind & FireNominee2018 and Cari LynnBecoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women WinnerAli: A LifeNomineeChester B. HimesNomineeObama: The Call of History NomineeWe're Going to Need More WineNominee2019 BecomingWinner Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental ActivistNomineeNomineeNominee and Deborah G. Plant Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"Nominee2020 More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)Winner Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison SystemNomineeNominee and Randee St. Nicholas My Name Is PrinceNominee Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path ForwardNominee2021 and Tamara PayneWinnerNomineeNomineeOlympic Pride, American PrejudiceNomineeWillie: The Game-Changing Story of the NHL’s First Black PlayerNominee2022 WillWinnerJust As I Am NomineeUnbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement NomineeUnprotected: A Memoir NomineeUntil I Am Free Nominee2023 Scenes from My Life: A MemoirWinner You’ve Been Chosen: Thriving Through the UnexpectedNominee Walking in My Joy: In These StreetsNomineeNomineeNominee2024Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights MovementWinnerLove and Justice: A Story of Triumph on Two Different CourtsNomineeLucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the OddsNomineeNothing Is MissingNomineeStraight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First TakesNominee
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