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EventsGeraldine Brooks & “Horse” at Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens
Join the Cleveland Foundation and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Geraldine Brooks for a conversation about “Horse,” a…
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EventsAn Evening with Saeed Jones
Join the Cleveland Foundation, Karamu House, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Saeed Jones, the 2023 winner for…
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EventsCharlayne Hunter-Gault at the City Club
Join our 2023 lifetime achievement winner Charlayne Hunter-Gault at the City Club’s Friday Forum during Cleveland Book Week. Hunter-Gault first…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 8: Ishmael Reed
Born 85 years ago in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ishmael Reed won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award lifetime achievement prize for his…
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EventsLiterary Cleveland Inkubator Conference
Literary Cleveland will kick off 2023 Book Week with the Inkubator Writing Conference, with online literary panels running September 18-20….
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 7: Novelist Anthony Marra
Born in Washington, D.C., Anthony Marra won the 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in fiction for “A Constellation of Vital…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 6: Poet Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae won a 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in poetry for “In the Language of My Captor.” A book about freedom…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 5: Novelist Percival Everett
Percival Everett won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction for “The Trees.” The idea for the novel sprung from…
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Education
Reading Ohio’s Black Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century
This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions and activities, and resources to help students learn about Black print culture,…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 4: Author George Makari
George Makari won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in nonfiction for his third book, “Of Fear and Strangers: A…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 3: Poet Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in poetry for “The Renunciations” – a response to the ending…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 2: Novelist Peter Ho Davies
Peter Ho Davies, the 2017 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for fiction, becomes the first guest to sit down for a…
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PodcastsSeason 3, Episode 1: Historian Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles won a 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in nonfiction for “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s…
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Events2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address…
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2023 Press Release – Winners Announced
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2023-1936 Winners
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BookAlive at the End of the World
Readers flock to poet Saeed Jones for his mischief, his warmth, his gift with language and what the Kirkus Prize…
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Author
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Seventy years ago, as a young child in Covington, Georgia, Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat at her grandmother’s knee each evening, waiting…
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BookThe Family Chao
“The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center…
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BookHalf American
More than a decade before the U.S military desegregated in 1948, American volunteers fought in racially integrated units – called…