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Anisfield-Wolf Winning Authors Nab Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
April 30, 2020
Four Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning authors — including two from our 2020 class — took home hardware from this year’s Los Angeles…
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“We Are Radical Monarchs” Documentary Shows Young Girls Taking Flight In The Social Justice Realm
April 24, 2020
“I was meant to be here,” 11-year-old Amia said as she twirled around the state capitol building in Sacramento, California….
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New Exhibition Pulls Local Community Into The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Canon
April 16, 2020
An innovative virtual exhibition at Case Western Reserve University selects and showcases new local responses to Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards writing.
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Kamden Hilliard Named Second Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
April 3, 2020
Kamden Hilliard — a poet who has lived in Hawai’i, southern California, New York City, Hong Kong, Iowa and South…
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Introducing Our Class Of 2020
March 30, 2020
The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 85th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2020 recipients of the only…
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CANCELLED: Novelist Peter Ho Davies To Announce 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Winners March 30
March 6, 2020
We have cancelled the March 30 reading by Peter Ho Davies and announcement of our 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners,…
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Honoring Toni Morrison With A “Gesture Of Love” On Her Birthday
February 17, 2020
A mere dozen miles from the site where Toni Morrison was born Chloe Wofford in Lorain, Ohio, a day-long gathering…
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What Henry Louis Gates Thinks About The “Beer Summit” Incident, 11 Years Later
February 4, 2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr. rarely speaks about one of his most publicized moments — the July 2009 arrest by Sgt….
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On Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation, These Two Anisfield-Wolf Titles Offer Reflection
January 27, 2020
Ten years after Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes, Soviet troops advanced across southeastern Poland and liberated Auschwitz, the…
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Cleveland Residents Invited To Anisfield-Wolf Reading Series
January 21, 2020
Pull up a chair at Case Western Reserve University’s new reading seminar for a hearty discussion of four Anisfield-Wolf award-winning…
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Celebrating Zora Neale Hurston With The Release Of “The Zora Canon”
January 7, 2020
Anisfield-Wolf recipient Zora Neale Hurston would have turned 129 years old January 7. To celebrate her birthday, the editors of…
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Put These 2019 Titles On Your 2020 Book List
December 16, 2019
In the onslaught of titles published each year, friends of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards can deploy a powerful technique to…
