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CLYDE FORD!!!  Clyde Ford accepts the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. (Photo Jahi Chikwendiu - Washington Post) On Friday, November 3, 2006 in a ceremony held in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Clyde Ford was given the 2006 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Contemporary Fiction for his novel, "The Long Mile." The Legacy Award is the highest honor bestowed on an African American writer by the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation. Clyde accepted the award by recounting how he began as a non-fiction author before undergoing a "literary sex change" to fiction. Then he thanked his partner, Chara Stuart, for her encouragement, support, and sacrifice. |
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BOOK AWARDS AND FEATURE FILMS |
The Long Mile garners a second award for Best Mystery and a nomination for a prestigious third literary honor. Fade-In Magazine bills Clyde's thrillers as "hot properties" for Hollywood. |
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A LITERARY SALON AT THE FREEMAN ESTATE |
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Clyde was among six authors, featured at a recent literary salon held at the Charleston, Mississippi estate of Myrna Colley-Lee and her husband, actor, Morgan Freeman. |
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