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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.’

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.

‘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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

A MacArthur Fellow and winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, Professor Marshall has taught at various universities over the course of her lifetime.

Taken together, the stories cover a vast geographic territory […] and are filled with exquisitely painful and raw moments of revelation, captured in an economical style as deft as it is sure.