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    Educators

    August 24, 2011

    The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is committed to advancing the understanding of diversity through education. Here we have pulled together a…

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    Further Reading

    August 24, 2011

    Additional reading suggestions on the topic of diversity. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Michael Colin Vazquez and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Dictionary…

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    Libraries

    August 24, 2011

    The Cleveland Public Library has housed the complete and ever-growing Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Collection at its main library since June…

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    Privacy Policy

    August 23, 2011

    The Cleveland Foundation is committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of personal information entrusted to us by current…

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    Gwendolyn Brooks

    August 17, 2011

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    Pearl Buck

    August 17, 2011

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    Stephen Jay Gould

    August 17, 2011

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    76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winners Announced

    August 11, 2011

    CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 12, 2011) – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of the 76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…

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    The Warmth of Other Suns

    Isabel Wilkerson

    The first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism, and the first black reporter to win for individual reporting, Wilkerson has also won the George Polk Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

  • Portrait of John Edgar Wideman
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    John Edgar Wideman

    Wideman is a widely celebrated author. He was the first writer to win the International PEN/Faulkner Award twice: in 1984 for “Sent for You Yesterday” and in 1990 for ‘Philadelphia Fire.’

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    The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia

    Mary Helen Stefaniak

    A graduate of Marquette University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stefaniak has taught in the Master of Fine Arts programs at Pacific University in Oregon and the University of Nebraska.

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    Great House

    Nicole Krauss

    ‘Great House,’ her third novel, was a finalist for a National Book Award for Fiction, short-listed for the Orange Prize, and featured on the cover of the New York Times Book Review.

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    Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    David Eltis

    More than 20 years ago, David Eltis and David Richardson decided to combine their studies of the transatlantic slave trade and their data collection efforts into one database, which they posted on the internet.

  • Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
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    Oprah Winfrey

    Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today.

  • Portrait of William Julius Wilson
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    William Julius Wilson

    William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 20 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member.

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    Burnt Shadows

    Kamila Shamsie

    ‘Burnt Shadows,’ her fifth novel, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction and won the Danish Literature Prize ALOA-2010.

  • Portrait of Elizabeth Alexander
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    Elizabeth Alexander

    Most recently, she composed and delivered “Praise Song for the Day” for the inauguration of President Barack Obama.