Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are United States literary awards dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture. Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf and originally administered by the Saturday Review, the awards have been administered by the Cleveland Foundation since 1963.

Three or four book awards, and sometimes a lifetime achievement award, 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).

Winners

• 2011 - Nicole Krauss, Great House
• 2011 - Mary Helen Stefaniak, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
• 2011 - David Eltis/David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• 2011 - Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns
• 2011 - John Edgar Wideman, Lifetime Achievement
• 2010 – Kamila Shamsie for Burnt Shadows
• 2010 – Elizabeth Alexander, Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry
• 2010 – William Julius Wilson, Lifetime Achievement Award in Nonfiction
• 2010 – Oprah Winfrey, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2009 – Louise Erdrich for The Plague of Doves
• 2009 – Nam Le for The Boat
• 2009 – Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello
• 2009 – Paule Marshall, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2008 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali for Infidel.^[1][2]
• 2008 – Junot Diaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• 2008 – Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• 2008 – William Melvin Kelley, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2007 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
• 2007 – Taylor Branch for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
• 2007 – Martha Collins for Blue Front
• 2007 – Scott Reynolds Nelson for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
• 2006 – Zadie Smith for On Beauty
• 2006 – Jill Lepore for New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
• 2006 – William Demby, Lifetime Achievement Award^[3]
• 2005 – August Wilson, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2005 – Geoffrey C. Ward for Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (about boxer Jack Johnson)
• 2005 – A. Van Jordan for Macnolia: Poems
• 2005 – Edwidge Danticat for The Dew Breaker
• 2004 – Derek Walcott, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2004 – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc for Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
• 2004 – Edward P. Jones for The Known World
• 2004 – Ira Berlin for Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
• 2003 – Reetika Vazirani for World Hotel
• 2003 – Samantha Power for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• 2003 – Adrienne Kennedy, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2003 – Stephen L. Carter for The Emperor of Ocean Park
• 2002 – Jay Wright, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2002 – Colson Whitehead for John Henry Days
• 2002 – Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed for Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
• 2002 – Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
• 2001 – F. X. Toole for Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
• 2001 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
• 2001 – Lucille Clifton, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2000 – Edward W. Said for Out of Place: A Memoir
• 2000 – Chang-Rae Lee for A Gesture Life
• 2000 – Ernest Gaines, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999 – John Lewis, Michael D'Orso for Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement)
• 1999 – John Hope Franklin, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999 – Russell Banks for Cloudsplitter
• 1998 – Gordon Parks, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1998 – Walter Mosley for Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
• 1998 – Toi Derricotte for The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
• 1997 – Albert L. Murray, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1997 – James McBride for The Color of Water
• 1997 – Jamaica Kincaid for Autobiography of My Mother
• 1996 – Dorothy West, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1996 – Madison Smartt Bell for All Souls' Rising
• 1996 – Jonathan Kozol for Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
• 1995 – William H. Tucker for The Science and Politics of Racial Research
• 1995 – Brent Staples for Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
• 1995 – Reginald Gibbons for Sweetbitter: A Novel
• 1994 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader
• 1994 – Judith Ortiz Cofer for The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
• 1994 – Ronald Takaki for A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
• 1993 – Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas for The Civilization of the Goddess
• 1993 – Sandra Cisneros for Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
• 1993 – Kwame Anthony Appiah for In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
• 1992 – Marilyn Nelson for The Homeplace
• 1992 – Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh for The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality
• 1992 – Peter Hayes for Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World
• 1992 – Melissa Fay Greene for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
• 1992 – Ralph Ellison for Invisible Man, Special Achievement Award
• 1991 – Forrest G. Wood for The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America
• 1991 – Walter A. Jackson for Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987 (about Gunnar Myrdal)
• 1991 – Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, Graham Hancock for African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
• 1990 – Dolores Kendrick for The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women
• 1990 – Hugh Honour for The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1
• 1989 – Peter Sutton for Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
• 1989 – George Lipsitz for Life In The Struggle
• 1989 – Henry Louis Gates Jr. for Collected Black Women's Narratives
• 1989 – Taylor Branch for Parting the Waters America in the King Years
• 1988 – Abigail M. Thernstrom for Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
• 1988 – Toni Morrison for Beloved
• 1988 – Walter F. Morris, Jr. for Living Maya
• 1988 – Nadine Gordimer for A Sport of Nature
• 1987 – Gail Sheehy for Spirit of Survival
• 1987 – Arnold Rampersad for The Life of Langston Hughes
• 1986 – Northland Editors for Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary
• 1986 – James North for Freedom Rising
• 1986 – Donald Alexander Downs for Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment
• 1985 – David S. Wyman for The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
• 1985 – Breyten Breytenbach for Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel
• 1984 – Humbert S. Nelli for From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans
• 1984 – Jose Alcina Franch for Pre-Columbian Art
• 1983 – Wole Soyinka for Aké: The Years of Childhood
• 1983 – Richard Rodriguez for Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
• 1982 – Peter J. Powell for People of the Sacred Mountain
• 1982 – Geoffrey G. Field for Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain
• 1981 – Jamake Highwater for Song from the Earth: American Indian painting
• 1980 – Tepilit Ole Saitoti for Maasai
• 1980 – Richard Borshay Lee for The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
• 1980 – Urie Bronfenbrenner for The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design
• 1979 – Phillip V. Tobias for The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa
• 1978 – Maxine Hong Kingston for The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
• 1978 – Allan Chase for Legacy of Malthus
• 1977 – Michi Weglyn for Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
• 1977 – Richard Kluger for Simple Justice
• 1976 – Raphael Patai for The Myth of the Jewish race
• 1976 – Thomas Kiernan for The Arabs: Their history, aims, and challenge to the industrialized world
• 1976 – Lucy S. Dawidowicz for The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945
• 1975 – Leon Poliakov for The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe
• 1975 – Eugene D. Genovese for Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
• 1974 – Louis Leo Snyder for The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History
• 1974 – Albie Sachs for Justice in South Africa
• 1974 – Michel Fabre for The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
• 1974 – Charles Duguid for Doctor and the Aborigines
• 1973 – Lee Rainwater for Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum
• 1973 – Betty Fladeland for Men & Brothers
• 1973 – Pat Conroy for The Water Is Wide
• 1972 – Donald L. Robinson for Slavery in the structure of American politics, 1765-1820
• 1972 – Naboth Mokgatle for The Autobiography of an Unknown South African
• 1972 – David Loye for The Healing of a Nation
• 1972 – John S. Haller for Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900
• 1972 – George M. Fredrickson for The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
• 1971 – Anthony Wallace for Death and Rebirth of Seneca
• 1971 – Stan Steiner for La Raza: The Mexican Americans
• 1971 – Carleton Mabee for Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War
• 1971 – Robert William July for A History of the African People
• 1970 – Audrie Girdner for The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II
• 1970 – Florestan Fernandes for The Negro in Brazilian Society
• 1970 – Vine Deloria for Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
• 1970 – Dan T. Carter for Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (about the Scottsboro boys)
• 1969 – Stuart Levine, Nancy O. Lurie for The American Indian Today
• 1969 – Leonard Dinnerstein for The Leo Frank Case
• 1969 – Gwendolyn Brooks for In the Mecca; Poems
• 1969 – E. Earl Baughman, W. Grant Dahlstrom for Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
• 1968 – Erich Kahler for The Jews among the Nations
• 1968 – Raul Hilberg for The Destruction of the European Jews
• 1968 – Robert Coles for Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
• 1968 – Norman Rufus Colin Cohn for Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
• 1967 – Oscar Lewis for La Vida
• 1967 – David Brion Davis for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
• 1966 – Amram Scheinfeld for Your Heredity and Environment
• 1966 – Claude Brown for Manchild in the Promised Land
• 1966 – Baldry for Unity Mankind Greek Thought
• 1966 – Alex Haley for The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• 1965 – James W. Silver for Mississippi: The Closed Society
• 1965 – Abram L. Sachar for A History of the Jews, Revised Edition
• 1965 – James M. McPherson for The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction
• 1965 – Milton M. Gordon for Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins
• 1964 – Bernard E. Olson for Faith and Prejudice
• 1964 – Harold R. Isaacs for The New World of Negro Americans
• 1964 – Nathan Glazer, Daniel P. Moynihan for Beyond the Melting Pot, Second Edition: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
• 1963 – Theodosius Dobzhansky for Mankind Evolving
• 1962 – John Howard Griffin for Black Like Me
• 1962 – Dwight L. Dumond for Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America
• 1962 – Gina Allen for The Forbidden Man
• 1961 – Louis E. Lomax for The Reluctant African
• 1961 – E. R. Braithwaite for To Sir, With Love
• 1960 – John Haynes Holmes for I Speak for Myself
• 1960 – Basil Davidson for Lost Cities of Africa
• 1959 – George Eaton Simpson, J. Milton Yinger for Racial and Cultural Minorities:: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination
• 1959 – Martin Luther King Jr. for Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
• 1958 – South African Institute of Race Relations for Handbook on Race Relations
• 1958 – Jessie B. Sams for White Mother
• 1957 – Father Trevor Huddleston for Naught for Your Comfort
• 1957 – Gilberto Freyre for The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization
• 1956 – George W. Shepherd for They Wait in Darkness
• 1956 – John P. Dean, Alex Rosen for Manual of Intergroup Relations
• 1955 – Lyle Saunders for Cultural Differences and Medical Care
• 1955 – Oden Meeker for Report on Africa
• 1954 – Langston Hughes for Simple Takes a Wife
• 1954 – Vernon Bartlett for Struggle for Africa
• 1953 – Han Suyin for A Many-Splendoured Thing
• 1953 – Farley Mowat for People of the Deer
• 1952 – Laurens Van Der Post for Venture to the Interior
• 1952 – Brewton Berry for Race Relations
• 1951 – John Hersey for The Wall
• 1951 – Henry Gibbs for Twilight in South Africa
• 1950 – Shirley Graham for Your Most Humble Servant
• 1950 – S. Andhil Fineberg for Punishment Without Crime
• 1949 – Alan Paton for Cry, the Beloved Country
• 1949 – J.C. Furnas for Anatomy of Paradise
• 1948 – Worth Tuttle Hedden for The Other Room
• 1948 – Kenneth R. Philp for John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954 (about John Collier)
• 1947 – Pauline R. Kibbe for Latin Americans in Texas
• 1947 – Sholem Asch for Prophet
• 1946 – Wallace Stegner for One Nation
• 1946 – St. Clair Drake for Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
• 1945 – Kenneth B. Clark for Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power
• 1945 – Gwethalyn Graham for Earth and High Heaven
• 1944 – Maurice Samuel for The World of Sholom Aleichem
• 1944 – Roi Ottley for New World A-Coming
• 1943 – Zora Neale Hurston for Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
• 1942 – James G. Leyburn for The Haitian People
• 1942 – Leopold Infeld for Quest: An Autobiography
• 1941 – Louis Adamic for From Many Lands
• 1940 – Edward Franklin Frazier for The Negro Family in the United States
• 1937 – Julian Huxley for We Europeans
• 1936 – Harold Foote Gosnell for Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago

References

External links

• Anisfield-Wolf.org – official website
• Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards at lovethebook.com