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NewsHenry Louis Gates Jr On The Importance Of A Good Book
Anisfield-Wolf jury chair Henry Louis Gates has a resume a mile long. And in between his work at Harvard, his…
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Thinking Of Starting A Book Club With Friends? Here Are Some Tips
For those who enjoy reading books, and enjoy sharing their favorite books with their friends even more, starting a book…
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NewsJunot Diaz On Why He Writes And The Power Of Perseverance
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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NewsThe Words Of Winners: Nam Le
On the power of fiction: ”I do believe that you can never know yourself let alone the person next to…
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NewsVIDEO: The Many Lives of Quincy Jones
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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NewsBooks Vs. Movies: How Will “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” Fare On The Big Screen?
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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NewsVIDEO: Edwidge Danticat Honored With Langston Hughes Medal At City College Of New York
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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News2011 Anisfield-Wolf Winner Nicole Krauss On Writing: “I Do Think Of A Novel As A House”
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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NewsRonn Richard 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Remarks
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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NewsYoung 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…
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Chairing the Jury
Chairing the jury for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is one of the single pleasures of my life. The thought that…
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Educators
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
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
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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76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize Winners Announced
CLEVELAND, Ohio (April 12, 2011) – The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of the 76th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…
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BookThe Warmth of Other Suns
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.
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AuthorJohn 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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BookThe Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
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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BookGreat House
‘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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AuthorOprah Winfrey
Her accomplishments as a global media leader and philanthropist have established her as one of the most respected and admired public figures today.