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Junot Diaz On Why He Writes And The Power Of Perseverance
December 12, 2011
What makes a writer a writer? It’s a simple question with many possible answers and if you ask 10 authors,…
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The Words Of Winners: Nam Le
December 9, 2011
On the power of fiction: ”I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to…
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VIDEO: The Many Lives of Quincy Jones
December 7, 2011
It’s been almost 10 years since Quincy Jones won an Anisfield-Wolf Award for his book, Q: The Autobiography of Quincy…
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Books Vs. Movies: How Will “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” Fare On The Big Screen?
December 5, 2011
2008 Anisfield-Wolf award winner Mohsin Hamid’s groundbreaking work, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is getting the Hollywood treatment. The story follows a…
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VIDEO: Edwidge Danticat Honored With Langston Hughes Medal At City College Of New York
December 2, 2011
2005 Anisfield-Wolf Award winner Edwidge Danticat gets emotional after receiving the Langston Hughes medal at the 2011 Langston Hughes Festival,…
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VIDEO: Young Actor Performs John Edgar Wideman’s “Bananas”
November 30, 2011
The world of publishing is changing right before our eyes, with established authors choosing to go the self-publishing route. Anisfield-Wolf’s…
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VIDEO: 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner David Eltis Speaks On His Groundbreaking Work, “Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
November 28, 2011
David Eltis, Woodruff Professor of History at Emory University, along with his co-author David Richardson, has complied one of the…
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VIDEO: 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner Mary Helen Stefaniak Reads From “The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia”
November 25, 2011
Thinking about picking up a book from one of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf winners? Check out this brief reading from Mary…
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2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner Nicole Krauss On Writing: “I Do Think Of A Novel As A House”
November 23, 2011
2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award winner Nicole Krauss, honored for her 2010 novel Great House, was selected as one of 12 honorees…
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VIDEO: 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner Isabel Wilkerson On Writing: “Plunge Yourself Into It”
November 21, 2011
In this brief interview from Knopf’s “Writers on Writing” series, 2011 Anisfield-Wolf winner Isabel Wilkerson discusses the lengthy, grueling process…
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Ronn Richard 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Remarks
September 15, 2011
Good evening. I’m Ronn Richard, president and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation. It’s my great pleasure to welcome you to…
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Young Poet, Essence Cain, Performs at 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Ceremony
Since 2009, an emerging young poet from Northeast Ohio is celebrated along with the winning authors at the Anisfield-Wolf Book…
