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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Contemporary Fiction Announced
Clyde W. Ford, author of The Long Mile
Midnight Ink is pleased to announce the winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in the contemporary fiction category: Clyde W. Ford, author of The Long Mile.On Friday, November 3, at a ceremony held in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Clyde Ford was honored with the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Contemporary Fiction for his novel featuring ex-New York City copy John Shannon.
The Legacy Award is the highest honor bestowed on an African American writer by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. The Long Milealso received the 2006 Independent Publisher Book Award for best Mystery/Thriller, and The Mahogany Media Award for best mystery of 2005.
A native New Yorker, Ford is a noted mythologist, psychologist, and scholar who has taught at Columbia and Western Washington University. He is the author of two acclaimed works of non-fiction, The Hero with an African Face (Bantam) and We Can All Get Along (Dell). The sequel to The Long Mile, Deuce’s Wild, is now available from Midnight Ink.
Founder of the Institute of African Mythology, the author currently lives near Seattle where he enjoys writing, sea-kayaking and cruising the waters of the Pacific Northwest in his single-engine trawler Mystic Voyager. To learn more, visit Clyde’s website at www.clydeford.com.