The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".
"[1] The Award is administered by the multi-cultural focused nonprofit Before Columbus Foundation, which established it in 1978 and inaugurated it in 1980.
[2][3] The Award honors excellence in American literature without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre.
[4] Previous winners include novelists, social scientists, philosophers, poets, and historians such as Toni Morrison, Edward Said, MacKenzie Bezos, Isabel Allende, bell hooks, Don DeLillo, Derrick Bell, Robin Kelley, Joy Harjo and Tommy J. Curry.
In 1987 it was renamed back to National Book Awards.