Awards
Black Caucus of the American Library Association, showing Virginia Deberry & Donna Grant as 1998 recipients of a BCALA Honor Award in fiction for Tryin'. http://www.bcala.org/awards/past_litwinners2.htm
BlackBoard 1998 Book of the Year Winners—Award presented at BookExpo, the Book and Author Breakfast, Sunday May 31, 1998, McCormack Place Convention Center, Chicago, IL(Tryin' was the largest selling hardcover work of African American fiction for 1997)
Go on Girl Book Club, 1997 New Author of the Year Award, (click on Award Winners Hall of Fame)
http://www.goongirl.org/events/author_awards/
African American Literary Awards Show—Open Book Award, September 29, 2004,
http://www.literaryawardshow.com/
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