Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is an American organization dedicated to honoring written works that contribute to the appreciation and understanding of race and culture. It was founded in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf.
Around 3 or 4 awards are given out each year. Notable past winners include Zora Neale Hurston (1943), Langston Hughes (1954), Martin Luther King, Jr. (1959), Maxine Hong Kingston (1978), Wole Soyinka (1983), Nadine Gordimer (1988), Toni Morrison (1988), Ralph Ellison (1992), Edward Said (2000), and Derek Walcott (2004).
Recent winners and their works are:
- William Demby, Lifetime Achievement Award
- Jill Lepore, New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth Century Manhattan
- Zadie Smith, On Beauty
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
- Taylor Branch, Lifetime Achievement Award
- Martha Collins, Blue Front
- Scott Reynolds Nelson, Steel Drivin' Man
- Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- William Melvin Kelley, Lifetime Achievement Award
