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The 78th Annual

’13
Fiction :: 2013

Eugene Gloria
My Favorite Warlordmore →
’13
Fiction :: 2013

Laird Hunt
Kind Onemore →
’13
Fiction :: 2013

Kevin Powers
The Yellow Birdsmore →
’13
Nonfiction :: 2013

Andrew Solomon
Far From the Treemore →
’13
Lifetime Achievement :: 2013

Wole Soyinka
Lifetime - Wole Soyinkamore →
’12
Nonfiction :: 2012

David W. Blight
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Eramore →
’12
Fiction :: 2012

Esi Edugyan
Half-Blood Bluesmore →
’12
Lifetime Achievement :: 2012

Arnold Rampersad
Lifetime – Arnold Rampersadmore →
’12
Nonfiction :: 2012

David Livingstone Smith
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Othersmore →
’11
Nonfiction :: 2011

David Eltis
David Richardson
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trademore →
’11
Fiction :: 2011

Nicole Krauss
Great Housemore →
’11
Fiction :: 2011

Mary Helen Stefaniak
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgiamore →
’11
Lifetime Achievement :: 2011

John Edgar Wideman
Lifetime - John Edgar Widemanmore →
’11
Nonfiction :: 2011

Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Sunsmore →
’10
Lifetime Achievement :: 2010

Elizabeth Alexander
Lifetime - Elizabeth Alexandermore →
’10
Fiction :: 2010

Kamila Shamsie
Burnt Shadowsmore →
’10
Lifetime Achievement :: 2010

William Julius Wilson
Lifetime - William Julius Wilsonmore →
’10
Lifetime Achievement :: 2010

Oprah Winfrey
Lifetime - Oprah Winfreymore →
’09
Fiction :: 2009

Louise Erdrich
The Plague of Dovesmore →
’09
Nonfiction :: 2009

Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticellomore →
’09
Fiction :: 2009

Nam Le
The Boatmore →
’09
Lifetime Achievement :: 2009

Paule Marshall
Lifetime - Paule Marshallmore →
’08
Nonfiction :: 2008

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidelmore →
’08
Fiction :: 2008

Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waomore →
’08
Fiction :: 2008

Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalistmore →
’08
Lifetime Achievement :: 2008

William Melvin Kelley
Lifetime - William Melvin Kelleymore →
’07
Fiction :: 2007

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Half of a Yellow Sunmore →
’07
Lifetime Achievement :: 2007

Taylor Branch
Lifetime - Taylor Branchmore →
’07
Fiction :: 2007

Martha Collins
Blue Frontmore →
’07
Nonfiction :: 2007

Scott Reynolds Nelson
Steel Drivin’ Man: The Untold Story of an American Legendmore →
’06
Lifetime Achievement :: 2006

William Demby
Lifetime - William Dembymore →
’06
Nonfiction :: 2006

Jill Lepore
New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattanmore →
’06
Fiction :: 2006

Zadie Smith
On Beautymore →
’05
Fiction :: 2005

Edwidge Danticat
The Dew Breakermore →
’05
Nonfiction :: 2005

A. Van Jordan
M•A•C•N•O•L•I•Amore →
’05
Nonfiction :: 2005

Geoffrey C. Ward
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnsonmore →
’05
Lifetime Achievement :: 2005

August Wilson
Lifetime - August Wilsonmore →
’04
Nonfiction :: 2004

Ira Berlin
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavesmore →
’04
Fiction :: 2004

Edward P. Jones
The Known Worldmore →
’04
Nonfiction :: 2004

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronxmore →
’04
Lifetime Achievement :: 2004

Derek Walcott
Lifetime - Derek Walcottmore →
’03
Fiction :: 2003

Stephen L. Carter
The Emperor of Ocean Parkmore →
’03
Lifetime Achievement :: 2003

Adrienne Kennedy
Lifetime - Adrienne Kennedymore →
’03
Nonfiction :: 2003

Samantha Power
A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocidemore →
’03
Fiction :: 2003

Reetika Vazirani
World Hotelmore →
’02
Nonfiction :: 2002

Quincy Jones
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jonesmore →
’02
Nonfiction :: 2002

Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon Can Readmore →
’02
Nonfiction :: 2002

Colson Whitehead
John Henry Daysmore →
’02
Lifetime Achievement :: 2002

Jay Wright
Lifetime - Jay Wrightmore →
’01
Lifetime Achievement :: 2001

Lucille Clifton
Lifetime - Lucille Cliftonmore →
’01
Nonfiction :: 2001

David Levering Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963more →
’01
Nonfiction :: 2001

F.X. Toole
Rope Burns: Stories from the Cornermore →
’00
Lifetime Achievement :: 2000

Ernest J. Gaines
Lifetime - Ernest J. Gainesmore →
’00
Fiction :: 2000

Chang-rae Lee
A Gesture Lifemore →
’00
Nonfiction :: 2000

Edward W. Said
Out of Placemore →
’99
Fiction :: 1999

Russell Banks
Cloudsplittermore →
’99
Lifetime Achievement :: 1999

John Hope Franklin
Lifetime - John Hope Franklinmore →
’99
Nonfiction :: 1999

John Lewis
Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movementmore →
’98
Nonfiction :: 1998

Toi Derricotte
The Black Notebooksmore →
’98
Fiction :: 1998

Walter Mosley
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunnedmore →
’98
Lifetime Achievement :: 1998

Gordon Parks
Lifetime - Gordon Parksmore →
’97
Fiction :: 1997

Jamaica Kincaid
The Autobiography of My Mothermore →
’97
Nonfiction :: 1997

James McBride
The Color of Watermore →
’97
Lifetime Achievement :: 1997

Albert L. Murray
Lifetime - Albert L. Murraymore →
’96
Fiction :: 1996

Madison Smartt Bell
All Souls’ Risingmore →
’96
Nonfiction :: 1996

Jonathan Kozol
Amazing Gracemore →
’96
Lifetime Achievement :: 1996

Dorothy West
Lifetime - Dorothy Westmore →
’95
Fiction :: 1995

Reginald Gibbons
Sweetbittermore →
’95
Nonfiction :: 1995

Brent Staples
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and Whitemore →
’95
Nonfiction :: 1995

William H. Tucker
The Science and Politics of Racial Researchmore →
’94
Fiction :: 1994

Judith Ortiz Cofer
The Latin Delimore →
’94
Nonfiction :: 1994

David Levering Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919more →
’94
Nonfiction :: 1994

Ronald Takaki
A Different Mirrormore →
’93
Nonfiction :: 1993

Kwame Anthony Appiah
In My Father’s Housemore →
’93
Fiction :: 1993

Sandra Cisneros
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Storiesmore →
’93
Nonfiction :: 1993

Marija Gimbutas
The Civilization of the Goddessmore →
’92
Landmark Achievement :: 1992

Ralph Ellison
Invisible Manmore →
’92
Fiction :: 1992

Melissa Fay Greene
Praying for Sheetrockmore →
’92
Nonfiction :: 1992

Peter Hayes, ed.
Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing Worldmore →
’92
Nonfiction :: 1992

Elaine Mensh
Harry Mensh
The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender and Inequalitymore →
’92
Nonfiction :: 1992

Marilyn Nelson Waniek
The Homeplacemore →
’91
Nonfiction :: 1991

Carol Beckwith
Angela Fisher
African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africamore →
’91
Nonfiction :: 1991

Walter A. Jackson
Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987more →
’91
Nonfiction :: 1991

Forrest G. Wood
The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America From the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Centurymore →
’90
Nonfiction :: 1990

Hugh Honour
The Image of the Black in Western Art From the American Revolution to World War I, Vol. 4, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Black Models and White Mythsmore →
’90
Fiction :: 1990

Dolores Kendrick
The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Womenmore →
’89
Nonfiction :: 1989

Taylor Branch
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63more →
’89
Nonfiction :: 1989

Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (30 volumes)more →
’89
Nonfiction :: 1989

George Lipsitz
A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Oppositionmore →
’89
Nonfiction :: 1989

Peter Sutton
Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australiamore →
’88
Nonfiction :: 1988

Jeffrey Jay Foxx
Walter F. Morris Jr.
Living Mayamore →
’88
Fiction :: 1988

Nadine Gordimer
A Sport of Naturemore →
’88
Fiction :: 1988

Toni Morrison
Belovedmore →
’88
Nonfiction :: 1988

Abigail M. Thernstrom
Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rightsmore →
’87
Nonfiction :: 1987

Arnold Rampersad
The Life of Langston Hughesmore →
’87
Nonfiction :: 1987

Gail Sheehy
Spirit of Survivalmore →
’86
Nonfiction :: 1986

Donald Alexander Downs
Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendmentmore →
’86
Nonfiction :: 1986

James North
Freedom Rising: Life Under Apartheid Through the Eyes of an American on a Four-Year Clandestine Journey Through Southern Africamore →
’86
Nonfiction :: 1986

Barton Wright
Clifford Bahnimptewa
Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Documentarymore →
’85
Fiction :: 1985

Breyten Breytenbach
Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novelmore →
’85
Nonfiction :: 1985

David S. Wyman
The Abandonment of the Jewsmore →
’84
Nonfiction :: 1984

Jose Alcina Franch
Pre-Columbian Artmore →
’84
Nonfiction :: 1984

Humbert S. Nelli
From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americansmore →
’83
Nonfiction :: 1983

Richard Rodriguez
Hunger of Memorymore →
’83
Nonfiction :: 1983

Wole Soyinka
Ake: The Years of Childhoodmore →
’82
Nonfiction :: 1982

Geoffrey G. Field
Evangelist of Racemore →
’82
Nonfiction :: 1982

Peter John Powell
People of the Sacred Mountainmore →
’81
Nonfiction :: 1981

Carol Beckwith
Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Maasaimore →
’81
Nonfiction :: 1981

Jamake Highwater
Song From the Earthmore →
’80
Nonfiction :: 1980

Urie Bronfenbrenner
The Ecology of Human Developmentmore →
’80
Nonfiction :: 1980

Richard Borshay Lee
The Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Societymore →
’79
Nonfiction :: 1979

Phillip V. Tobias, ed.
The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Southern Africamore →
’78
Nonfiction :: 1978

Allan Chase
The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racismmore →
’78
Nonfiction :: 1978

Maxine Hong Kingston
The Woman Warriormore →
’77
Nonfiction :: 1977

Richard Kluger
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equalitymore →
’77
Nonfiction :: 1977

Michi Weglyn
Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Campsmore →
’76
Nonfiction :: 1976

Lucy S. Dawidowicz
The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945more →
’76
Nonfiction :: 1976

Thomas Kiernan
The Arabsmore →
’76
Nonfiction :: 1976

Raphael Patai
Jennifer P. Wing
The Myth of the Jewish Racemore →
’75
Nonfiction :: 1975

Eugene D. Genovese
Roll, Jordan, Rollmore →
’75
Nonfiction :: 1975

Leon Poliakov
The Aryan Mythmore →
’74
Nonfiction :: 1974

Charles Duguid
Doctor and the Aboriginesmore →
’74
Nonfiction :: 1974

Michel Fabre
The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wrightmore →
’74
Nonfiction :: 1974

Albie Sachs
Justice in South Africamore →
’74
Nonfiction :: 1974

Louis Snyder
The Dreyfus Casemore →
’73
Nonfiction :: 1973

Pat Conroy
The Water Is Widemore →
’73
Nonfiction :: 1973

Betty Fladeland
Men & Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperationmore →
’73
Nonfiction :: 1973

Lee Rainwater
Behind Ghetto Wallsmore →
’72
Nonfiction :: 1972

George M. Fredrickson
The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914more →
’72
Nonfiction :: 1972

John S. Haller Jr.
Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859–1900more →
’72
Nonfiction :: 1972

David Loye
The Healing of a Nationmore →
’72
Nonfiction :: 1972

Naboth Mokgatle
The Autobiography of an Unknown South Africanmore →
’72
Nonfiction :: 1972

Donald L. Robinson
Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765–1820more →
’71
Nonfiction :: 1971

Robert W. July
A History of the African Peoplemore →
’71
Nonfiction :: 1971

Carleton Mabee
Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil Warmore →
’71
Nonfiction :: 1971

Stan Steiner
La Raza: The Mexican Americansmore →
’71
Nonfiction :: 1971

Anthony F.C. Wallace
The Death and Rebirth of the Senecamore →
’70
Nonfiction :: 1970

Dan T. Carter
Scottsboromore →
’70
Nonfiction :: 1970

Vine Deloria Jr.
Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifestomore →
’70
Nonfiction :: 1970

Florestan Fernandes
The Negro in Brazilian Societymore →
’70
Nonfiction :: 1970

Audrie Girdner
Anne Loftis
The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War IImore →
’69
Nonfiction :: 1969

E. Earl Baughman
W. Grant Dahlstrom
Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural Southmore →
’69
Fiction :: 1969

Gwendolyn Brooks
In the Meccamore →
’69
Nonfiction :: 1969

Leonard Dinnerstein
The Leo Frank Casemore →
’69
Nonfiction :: 1969

Stuart Levine
Nancy O. Lurie
The American Indian Todaymore →
’68
Nonfiction :: 1968

Norman Cohn
Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”more →
’68
Nonfiction :: 1968

Robert Coles
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fearmore →
’68
Nonfiction :: 1968

Raul Hilberg
The Destruction of the European Jewsmore →
’68
Nonfiction :: 1968

Erich Kahler
The Jews Among the Nationsmore →
’67
Nonfiction :: 1967

David Brion Davis
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culturemore →
’67
Nonfiction :: 1967

Oscar Lewis
La Vidamore →
’66
Nonfiction :: 1966

H.C. Baldry
The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thoughtmore →
’66
Nonfiction :: 1966

Claude Brown
Manchild in the Promised Landmore →
’66
Nonfiction :: 1966

Amram Scheinfeld
Your Heredity and Environmentmore →
’66
Nonfiction :: 1966

Malcolm X
Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Malcolm Xmore →
’65
Nonfiction :: 1965

Milton M. Gordon
Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Originsmore →
’65
Nonfiction :: 1965

James M. McPherson
The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstructionmore →
’65
Nonfiction :: 1965

Abram L. Sachar
A History of the Jewsmore →
’65
Nonfiction :: 1965

James W. Silver
Mississippi: The Closed Societymore →
’64
Nonfiction :: 1964

Nathan Glazer
Daniel P. Moynihan
Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York Citymore →
’64
Nonfiction :: 1964

Harold R. Isaacs
The New World of Negro Americansmore →
’64
Nonfiction :: 1964

Bernhard E. Olson
Faith and Prejudicemore →
’63
Nonfiction :: 1963

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Speciesmore →
’62
Fiction :: 1962

Gina Allen
The Forbidden Manmore →
’62
Nonfiction :: 1962

Dwight L. Dumond
Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in Americamore →
’62
Nonfiction :: 1962

John Howard Griffin
Black Like Memore →
’61
Nonfiction :: 1961

E.R. Braithwaite
To Sir, With Lovemore →
’61
Nonfiction :: 1961

Louis E. Lomax
The Reluctant Africanmore →
’60
Nonfiction :: 1960

Basil Davidson
The Lost Cities of Africamore →
’60
Nonfiction :: 1960

John Haynes Holmes
I Speak for Myselfmore →
’59
Nonfiction :: 1959

Martin Luther King Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Storymore →
’59
Nonfiction :: 1959

George Eaton Simpson
J. Milton Yinger
Racial and Cultural Minoritiesmore →
’58
Nonfiction :: 1958

Jessie B. Sams
White Mothermore →
’58
Nonfiction :: 1958

South African Institute of Race Relations
Handbook on Race Relationsmore →
’57
Nonfiction :: 1957

Gilberto Freyre
The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilizationmore →
’57
Nonfiction :: 1957

Trevor Huddleston
Naught for Your Comfortmore →
’56
Nonfiction :: 1956

John P. Dean
Alex Rosen
A Manual of Intergroup Relationsmore →
’56
Nonfiction :: 1956

George W. Shepherd Jr.
They Wait in Darknessmore →
’55
Nonfiction :: 1955

Oden Meeker
Report on Africamore →
’55
Nonfiction :: 1955

Lyle Saunders
Cultural Differences and Medical Care more →
’54
Nonfiction :: 1954

Vernon Bartlett
Struggle for Africamore →
’54
Fiction :: 1954

Langston Hughes
Simple Takes a Wifemore →
’53
Nonfiction :: 1953

Farley Mowat
People of the Deermore →
’53
Nonfiction :: 1953

Han Suyin
A Many-Splendored Thingmore →
’52
Nonfiction :: 1952

Brewton Berry
Race Relationsmore →
’52
Fiction :: 1952

John Hersey
The Wallmore →
’52
Nonfiction :: 1952

Laurens van der Post
Venture to the Interiormore →
’51
Nonfiction :: 1951

Henry Gibbs
Twilight in South Africamore →
’50
Nonfiction :: 1950

S. Andhil Fineberg
Punishment Without Crimemore →
’50
Nonfiction :: 1950

Shirley Graham
Your Most Humble Servantmore →
’49
Nonfiction :: 1949

J.C. Furnas
Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the Islands of the South Seasmore →
’49
Fiction :: 1949

Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Countrymore →
’48
Nonfiction :: 1948

John Collier
The Indians of the Americasmore →
’48
Fiction :: 1948

Worth Tuttle Hedden
The Other Roommore →
’47
Fiction :: 1947

Sholem Asch
East Rivermore →
’47
Nonfiction :: 1947

Pauline R. Kibbe
Latin Americans in Texasmore →
’46
Nonfiction :: 1946

St. Clair Drake
Horace Cayton
Black Metropolismore →
’46
Nonfiction :: 1946

Wallace Stegner with the Editors of Look
One Nationmore →
’45
Fiction :: 1945

Gwethalyn Graham
Earth and High Heavenmore →
’45
Nonfiction :: 1945

Gunnar Myrdal
An American Dilemmamore →
’44
Nonfiction :: 1944

Roi Ottley
New World A-Comingmore →
’44
Nonfiction :: 1944

Maurice Samuel
The World of Sholom Aleichem more →
’43
Nonfiction :: 1943

Zora Neale Hurston
Dust Tracks on a Roadmore →
’42
Nonfiction :: 1942

Leopold Infeld
Quest: The Evolution of a Scientistmore →
’42
Nonfiction :: 1942

James G. Leyburn
The Haitian Peoplemore →
’41
Nonfiction :: 1941

Louis Adamic
From Many Landsmore →
’40
Nonfiction :: 1940

E. Franklin Frazier
The Negro Family in the United Statesmore →
’37
Nonfiction :: 1937

Julian Huxley
A.C. Haddon
We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems more →
’36
Nonfiction :: 1936

Harold F. Gosnell
Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicagomore →

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