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HARLEM BOOK FAIR
The Harlem Book Fair is the nation's flagship large-scale multi-cultural public literary event. Founded in 1998 by publisher and editor-in-chief of the QBR: The Black Book Review Max Rodriguez, the free festival welcomes publishers, independent authors, vendors and artists. Each year, the Fair is held on 135th Street between 5th Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in Harlem, NY. C-Span Book TV, Columbia University, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the New York Public Library are annual supporters of the fair.

Max Rodriguez
Max Rodriguez is the Editor-In-Chief of QBR: The Black Book Review, which he started in 1998 as a way to heighten visibility and mass awareness for "authors of African descent." A year later, Rodriguez launched the Harlem Book Fair as an extension of QBR, providing a live forum to showcase a diverse array of authors.

Festival Growth
The Harlem Book Fair was originally a one-day festival but was later expanded into a three-day festival. The fair has also expanded beyond its Harlem, NY origins and fairs have now been held in Buffalo, NY and Newark, NJ.

Wheatley Book Awards
Named after the first female African-American published author, Phyllis Wheatley, the Harlem Book Fair's Wheatley Book Awards are given for literature that "transcends culture, boundary and perceptions" and honors the best African-American writing in the categories of Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Children's writing.

2013 Winners

 * First Fiction: Antebellum by R. K. Thomas
 * Fiction: Love in a Carry-on Bag by Sadeqa Johnson
 * Nonfiction/Biography & Memoir: Gather at the Table by Sharon Leslie Morgan and Thomas Morgan DeWolf
 * Nonfiction/History & Politics: Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation by Deborah Davis
 * Poetry: Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah by Patricia Smith
 * Young Adult Readers: The Diary of BB Bright: Possible Princess by Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams, Illustrated by Shadra Strickland
 * Young Readers: Tea Cakes for Tosh by Kelly Starling Lyons, Illustrated by E. B. Lewis