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Introducing the Class of 2024
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024…
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New Director, Jurors Announced for Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Nicholas Roman Lewis has joined the Cleveland Foundation as the Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Lewis, who has served…
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Cleveland Book Week 2023: From Cover to Cover
The eighth annual Cleveland Book Week brought five literary powerhouses — poet Saeed Jones, historian Matthew F. Delmont, novelists Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and…
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REVIEW: Colson Whitehead’s Pen Sizzles With “Crook Manifesto”
by Charles Ellenbogen Ray Carney has a problem any parent will recognize. The protagonist of “Crook Manifesto” – the second…
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Introducing Our Class of 2023
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only…
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“Rise and Rebuild” Documentary Puts Spotlight On Fight for Black Wealth
Filmmakers Leslia Asako Gladsjo and Sam Pollard wanted to make a documentary about the Tulsa Massacre, the two days in…
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Poet Adrian Matejka to Announce 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners
Join us Monday, April 3 as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won…
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7 Titles From AW-Winning Authors You’ll Want On Your TBR List
Looking for some new titles to pick up? Check out some recent releases from Anisfield-Wolf award winners – you already…
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Watch the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
For the third year, our literary celebrations continue with a one-hour awards documentary featuring our 2022 winners: Percival Everett (fiction), Donika Kelly (poetry), George Makari (nonfiction), Tiya…
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7th Annual Cleveland Book Week, Cover to Cover
Book lovers gathered in person for the first time since 2019 to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall, with a…
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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Valentino Zullo is Shaping the Future through Comics
“Fantasy drives us all,” declares Professor Valentino L. Zullo, the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Post-Doctoral Fellow in English and Public Humanities at…
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7th Annual Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off September 9
Since 2016, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have hosted Cleveland Book Week, to celebrate its past and present winners and showcase…