Winner- Naacp Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work Fiction . Winner- Anne Izard Storytellers Choice Award Holiday Gift Guide Selection, Indiewire, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune. These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature. Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales revolutionizes the canon like no other volume. Following in the tradition of such classics as Arthur Huff Fauset's "Negro Folk Tales from the South" 1927 , Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men 1935 , and Virginia Hamilton's The People Could Fly 1985 , acclaimed scholars Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Maria Tatar assemble a groundbreaking collection of folktales, myths, and legends that revitalizes a vibrant African American past to produce the most comprehensive and ambitious collection of African American folktales ever published in American literary history.