Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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    Geraldine Brooks & “Horse” at Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

    September 27, 2023, 4:00 pm

    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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    An Evening with Saeed Jones

    September 26, 2023, 7:00 pm

    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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    Charlayne Hunter-Gault at the City Club

    September 29, 2023, 12:00 pm

    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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    Season 3, Episode 8: Ishmael Reed

    August 17, 2023

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    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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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Conference

    September 18 – September 23, 2023

    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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    Season 3, Episode 7: Novelist Anthony Marra

    July 20, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 6: Poet Shane McCrae

    July 6, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 5: Novelist Percival Everett

    June 22, 2023

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    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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    Reading Ohio’s Black Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century

    Level: Young Adult

    This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions and activities, and resources to help students learn about Black print culture,…

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    Season 3, Episode 4: Author George Makari

    June 8, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 3: Poet Donika Kelly

    May 25, 2023

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    Donika Kelly won the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize in poetry for “The Renunciations” – a response to the ending…

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    Season 3, Episode 2: Novelist Peter Ho Davies

    May 11, 2023

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    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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    Season 3, Episode 1: Historian Tiya Miles

    April 27, 2023

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    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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    2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 28, 2023, 6:00 pm

    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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    2023-1936 Winners

  • Cover of Alive at the End of the World
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    Alive at the End of the World

    Saeed Jones

    Readers flock to poet Saeed Jones for his mischief, his warmth, his gift with language and what the Kirkus Prize…

  • Portrait of Charlayne Hunter-Gault
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    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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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    “The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center…

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    Half American

    Matthew F. Delmont

    More than a decade before the U.S military desegregated in 1948, American volunteers fought in racially integrated units – called…