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The Life and Times of Albert Lee Murray: Awards

Located in the Ford Motor Company Library on the campus of Tuskegee University

Awards

AWARDS:

  • Alabama Writer's Forum Harper Lee Award for Literary Excellence, 1998
  • ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for music criticism, 1976, for Stomping the Blues
  • Distinguished Artist Award, Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2003  ​
  • DuBois Medal from the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research
  • Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, National Book Critics Circle, 1996
  • Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle
  • Lillian Smith Award for fiction, 1974, for Train Whistle Guitar
  • Lincoln Center Directors Emeriti Award, 1991
  • Membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2013 and encyclopediaofalabama.org 

Above: Albert Murray received the Booker T. Washington Legacy Award, January 22, 2011

 

The Alabama State Council on the Arts Distinguished Artist Award presented to Albert Murray, May 2, 2003.

Above: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, October 3, 1998.

Above: The Ed Bradley Award for Leadership, November 16, 2009. 

Annual Black Musicians Conference Distinguished Achievement Award, April 25, 1991.

Awards

Above: The Lillian Smith Award for Albert Murray's book, Train Whistle Guitar, November 16, 1974.

Above: Callaloo Award Presented to Albert Murray, 1987.