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THE 79TH ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS Since 1935, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has recognized writers whose works confront racism and celebrate diversity. The prize is given each year to outstanding books published in English the previous year. An independent jury of internationally recognized scholars selects the winners. Since 1996, the jury has also bestowed lifetime achievement awards.

Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book awards in 1935 in honor of her family’s passion for social justice. Her father, John Anisfield, took great care to nurture his only child’s awareness of local and world issues. After a successful career in the garment and real estate industries, he retired early to devote his life to charity. Edith attended Flora Stone Mather College for Women and helped administer her father’s philanthropy.

Upon her death in 1963, Edith Anisfield Wolf left her home to the Cleveland Welfare Association, her books to the Cleveland Public Library, and her money to the Cleveland Foundation. 79 YEARS

WELCOME TO THE 79TH ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

For 79 years, the Anisfield-Wolf book prize has recognized writers whose works contribute to our understanding of the rich diversity of human cultures.

WELCOME ACCEPTANCE Ronald B. Richard Adrian Matejka President & Chief Executive Poetry Officer, the Cleveland The Big Smoke Foundation Anthony Marra YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCE Fiction Elliot Mercer A Constellation of Vital Read his poem on page 8 Phenomena

Ari Shavit INTRODUCTION OF WINNERS Nonfiction Henry Louis Gates Jr. My Promised Land Chair, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Jury Sir Founding Director, Lifetime Achievement Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, George Lamming Harvard University Lifetime Achievement POETRY Adrian Matejka The Big Smoke Penguin Books @adrian_matejka

Adrian Matejka was born in the German town of Nuremberg. He grew up in California and Indiana. A graduate of Indiana University, Matejka earned an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he lives with his wife, the poet Stacey Lynn Brown, and their daughter, Marley. In April, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

The Big Smoke, Matejka’s third volume of poetry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and short-listed for the National Book Award. It is a marvelous, nuanced, polyphonic exploration of the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight world champion. Matejka mimics some of the cadence and physicality of boxing in this collection — particularly in the 14-line sonnets. A fan of the sport, Matejka was moved by this son of emancipated slaves — born in Texas just 13 years after the end of the Civil War — who loved Shakespeare, Verdi’s operas, travel abroad, and a series of white women. Using various voices and multiple poetic forms, Matejka considers the myth, the man, and those around him. “I wrote the book trying to bring [Johnson’s] story into the contemporary dialogue of race and politics,” Matejka said. Jack Johnson died in 1946, and The Big Smoke follows him through 1912 in 52 poems. Matejka plans a second volume on the last section of the boxer’s life.

2 FICTION Anthony Marra A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Hogarth @anthonyfmarra

Anthony Marra was born in Washington, D.C. At 19, he worked full-time in a UPS office before enrolling at the University of Southern California, where he received his Bachelor of Arts. He studied at Charles University in Prague and at St. Petersburg State University in Russia, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He is presently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford University. He lives in Oakland, California.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is set in Chechnya and unfolds over five days in 2004, with many cross-cuts into the recent wars in the region. Marra takes his title from a medical dictionary defini- tion of life and his inspiration, in part, from the fact that no previ- ous novel was set in a region that has been fertile soil for Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, and Alexandr Pushkin.

Marra unfurls his tender, ferocious, and funny debut novel through the interlocking lives of six characters. It begins as Russian feder- als burn down a Muslim home from which Havva, an 8-year-old, has escaped. A neighbor finds the girl in the forest and decides to hide her in a dilapidated hospital where one overwhelmed doctor remains. Lives bind and fray as regular people — each in his or her own way — try to transcend their circumstances by saving others.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena won the John Leonard Prize for first book from the National Book Critics Circle.

3 NONFICTION Ari Shavit My Promised Land Spiegel & Grau @arishavit

Ari Shavit is a leading columnist for the daily newspaper Haaretz. Born in 1957 in , Shavit served as a paratrooper in the and studied philosophy at the Hebrew University in . In the early 1990s, he chaired the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. He is married to Timna Rosenheimer; they have a daughter, Tamara, and sons Michael and Daniel. The Shavits live in Kfar Shmariahu.

Encouraged by New Yorker Editor David Remnick, Shavit spent five years writing My Promised Land in English and Hebrew simultaneously. “This book is the personal odyssey of one Israeli who is bewildered by the historic drama that has engulfed his homeland,” Shavit writes in his introduction. He asks existen- tially profound questions, weaving into the text his own family, his disillusioning military service, and the forced expulsion of the Palestinian population of Lydda in 1948. He touches on the exuberant Tel Aviv night life, the orange groves of Rehovot, and the country’s current hostilities with Iran.

“Even if you’ve had it up to here with the Jews and the Arabs, this book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done,” writes Anisfield-Wolf juror Simon Schama. “It is a reminder that the first obligation of history is self-criticism, and the second is philosophically enriched story- telling — and how very rarely this goal is achieved.”

My Promised Land won a National Jewish Book Award.

4 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Sir Wilson Harris Lifetime Achievement Award

Sir Theodore Wilson Harris is a celebrated writer and a visionary explorer of the interdependence among history, landscape, and humanity. Born in 1921 in Georgetown, , he trained as a land surveyor and, in 1955, became the nation’s senior surveyor. The years in Guyana’s interior were formative to Harris’ art and work.

“The interior of Guyana came alive to me, and seemed like an- other planet,” Harris said, later adding, “The word ‘Guyana’ is based on an Amerindian word that means ‘land of waters.’ There is magic in this contrast in which the specter of land moves, the ghost of rock resembles a tide, in rivers that run. Such magic is the dance of place.”

In 1959, Harris left for England to write full time. It took him three attempts at a novel — all of which he destroyed – before he was satisfied with Palace of the Peacock, published by Faber & Faber in 1960. T.S. Eliot approved it for publication. The story centers on a doomed mission upriver to bring back Amerindian labor.

Harris went on to write 24 more novels, all published by Faber & Faber, all written in longhand. His fiction, dense with symbolism and sensuous imagery, has little in the way of conventional plot or character. Instead, it draws on dream, myth, and archetype — and is often enigmatic. His ear for dialogue is acute.

Knighted in 2010 by Queen Elizabeth, Harris has twice won the Guyana Prize for Literature.

5 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT George Lamming Lifetime Achievement Award

George Lamming is a novelist, poet, and cultural critic from Barbados. He was just 23 and living in London when he wrote In the Castle of My Skin. It draws on his island childhood of mixed African and English parentage, and reflects on post-colonial and neo-colonial questions. The book was a sensation that won the Somerset Maugham Award. Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright championed it.

Lamming was born in 1927 in Carrington Village, Barbados. He earned a scholarship to Combermere, a distinguished high school where his teacher, Frank Collymore, welcomed the young Lamming into his home library on weekends. Eventually, Lamming joined the Caribbean diaspora in London. He worked first in a factory, then as an announcer for the BBC. When In the Castle of My Skin was pub- lished, the reviews were mixed, but a positive piece by V.S. Pritchett proved instrumental to its success.

Lamming wrote five more novels and a collection of essays, The Pleasures of Exile, which examines Caribbean politics and race. His poetry and short stories were published in various anthologies. Lamming depicts the difficulty of cultural cohesion in this region as a direct result of colonial rule, and his work has been crucial in the formation of Caribbean identity.

The scholar Anthony Bogues notes that “the tight relationship be- tween politics, knowledge, language, and the spaces of freedom in Lamming’s writings makes him one of the most important political novelists in Caribbean literature.”

Lamming has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Award.

6 The Awards Jury

An independent panel of internationally respected jurors selects the Anisfield-Wolf winners. The current jury is chaired by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and includes Rita Dove, Joyce Carol Oates, Steven Pinker, and Simon Schama.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ph.D. Rita Dove Joyce Carol Oates Chair Commonwealth Professor Roger S. Berlind ‘52 Director, Hutchins Center of English Professor in the Humanities for African and African University of Virginia Princeton University American Research Harvard University

Steven Pinker, Ph.D. Simon Schama, Ph.D. Johnstone Family Professor University Professor of History of Psychology and Art History Harvard University Columbia University

7 YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCE Elliot Mercer

Elliot Mercer, 9, will enter the fourth-grade this fall at Holden Elementary School in Kent, Ohio. He is the son of Isabel Farnsworth and Sean Mercer. Elliot began writing poetry in first grade, and has found a genial place to write and think at Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, partner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

NIGHT

If I were the night I would cool down the world and send the day a break.

I would ride the moon, put out the brightest flame of the sun.

When my job is done I will pour down dew that I collect from stars.

When the day flushes me down I will find dreams and stories to share with you in your sleep.

8 Anisfield-Wolf Winners Through the Years

1936 1945 Harold F. Gosnell Gwethalyn Graham Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Earth and High Heaven Politics in Chicago J.B. Lippincott University of Chicago Press Gunnar Myrdal 1937 An American Dilemma Julian Huxley and Harper & Brothers A.C. Haddon 1946 We Europeans: A Survey of St. Clair Drake and “Racial” Problems Harper & Brothers Horace Cayton Black Metropolis 1938 Harcourt Brace & World no award Wallace Stegner with 1939 the editors of Look no award One Nation 1940 Houghton Mifflin Co. E. Franklin Frazier 1947 The Negro Family in the Sholem Asch East River University of Chicago Press Houghton Mifflin Co. 1941 Pauline R. Kibbe Louis Adamic Latin Americans in Texas From Many Lands University of New Mexico Press Harper & Brothers 1948 1942 John Collier Leopold Infeld The Indians of the Americas Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist W.W. Norton & Co. Doubleday Doran & Co. Worth Tuttle Hedden James G. Leyburn The Other Room The Haitian People Crown Publishers Press 1949 1943 J.C. Furnas Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the Dust Tracks on a Road Islands of the South Seas J.B. Lippincott W. Sloane Associates 1944 Alan Paton Roi Ottley Cry, the Beloved Country New World A-Coming Charles Scribner & Sons Houghton Mifflin Co. 1950 Maurice Samuel S. Andhil Fineberg The World of Sholom Aleichem Punishment Without Crime Alfred A. Knopf Doubleday & Co. Shirley Graham Your Most Humble Servant Julian Messner

9 1951 1958 Henry Gibbs Jessie B. Sams Twilight in South Africa White Mother Philosophical Library McGraw-Hill Book Co. John Hersey South African Institute The Wall of Race Relations Alfred A. Knopf Handbook on Race Relations Oxford University Press 1952 Brewton Berry 1959 Race Relations Martin Luther King Jr. Houghton Mifflin Co. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Laurens van der Post Harper & Brothers Venture to the Interior William Morrow & Co. George Eaton Simpson and 1953 J. Milton Yinger Farley Mowat Racial and Cultural Minorities People of the Deer Harper & Brothers Little, Brown & Co. 1960 Han Suyin Basil Davidson A Many-Splendored Thing The Lost Cities of Africa Little, Brown & Co. Little, Brown & Co. 1954 John Haynes Holmes Vernon Bartlett I Speak for Myself Struggle for Africa Harper & Brothers Charles Scribner & Sons 1961 Langston Hughes E.R. Braithwaite Simple Takes a Wife To Sir, With Love Simon & Schuster Prentice-Hall Publishers & Co. 1955 Louis E. Lomax Oden Meeker The Reluctant African Report on Africa Harper & Brothers Charles Scribner & Sons 1962 Lyle Saunders Gina Allen Cultural Differences and The Forbidden Man Medical Care Chilton Russell Sage Foundation Dwight L. Dumond 1956 Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in John P. Dean and America Alex Rosen University of Michigan Press A Manual of Intergroup Relations John Howard Griffin University of Chicago Press Black Like Me George W. Shepherd Jr. Houghton Mifflin Co. They Wait in Darkness 1963 John Day Co. Theodosius Dobzhansky 1957 Mankind Evolving: The Evolution Gilberto Freyre of the Human Species The Masters and the Slaves: Yale University Press A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization Alfred A. Knopf Trevor Huddleston Naught for Your Comfort Doubleday & Co. 10 1964 1968 Nathan Glazer and Norman Cohn Daniel P. Moynihan Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Jewish World-Conspiracy and “The Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of Protocols of the Elders of Zion” New York City Harper & Row M.I.T. Press & Harvard University Press Robert Coles Harold R. Isaacs Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage The New World of Negro Americans and Fear John Day Co. Little, Brown & Co. Bernhard E. Olson Raul Hilberg Faith and Prejudice The Destruction of the Yale University Press European Jews Quadrangle 1965 Milton M. Gordon Erich Kahler Assimilation in American Life: The Jews Among the Nations The Role of Race, Religion and National Ungar Origins 1969 Oxford University Press E. Earl Baughman and James M. McPherson W. Grant Dahlstrom The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists Negro and White Children: and the Negro in the Civil War and A Psychological Study in the Reconstruction Rural South Princeton University Press Academic Press Abram L. Sachar Gwendolyn Brooks A History of the Jews In the Mecca Alfred A. Knopf Harper & Row James W. Silver Leonard Dinnerstein Mississippi: The Closed Society The Leo Frank Case Harcourt Brace & World Columbia University Press 1966 Stuart Levine and H.C. Baldry Nancy O. Lurie The Unity of Mankind in The American Indian Today Greek Thought Everett/Edwards Cambridge University Press 1970 Claude Brown Dan T. Carter Manchild in the Promised Land Scottsboro Macmillan Publishing Co. Louisiana State University Press Malcolm X and Vine Deloria Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: The Autobiography of Malcolm X An Indian Manifesto Grove Press Macmillan Publishing Co. Amram Scheinfeld Florestan Fernandes Your Heredity and Environment The Negro in Brazilian Society J.B. Lippincott Columbia University Press 1967 Audrie Girdner and David Brion Davis Anne Loftis The Problem of Slavery in The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Western Culture Japanese-Americans During World War II Cornell University Press Macmillan Publishing Co. Oscar Lewis La Vida Random House

11 1971 1974 Robert W. July Charles Duguid A History of the African People Doctor and the Aborigines Charles Scribner & Sons Rigby Limited Carleton Mabee Michel Fabre Black Freedom: The Nonviolent The Unfinished Quest of Abolitionists from 1830 through Richard Wright the Civil War William Morrow & Co. Macmillan Publishing Co. Albie Sachs Stan Steiner Justice in South Africa La Raza: The Mexican Americans University of California Press Harper & Row Louis Snyder Anthony F.C. Wallace The Dreyfus Case The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca Press Alfred A. Knopf 1975 1972 Eugene D. Genovese George M. Fredrickson Roll, , Roll The Black Image in the White Mind: The Pantheon Books Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 Leon Poliakov Harper & Row The Aryan Myth Basic Books John S. Haller Jr. Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific 1976 Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, Lucy S. Dawidowicz 1859–1900 The War Against the Jews, University of Illinois Press 1933–1945 Holt, Rinehart & Winston David Loye The Healing of a Nation Thomas Kiernan W.W. Norton & Co. The Arabs Little, Brown & Co. Naboth Mokgatle The Autobiography of an Unknown South Raphael Patai and African Jennifer P. Wing University of California The Myth of the Jewish Race Charles Scribner & Sons Donald L. Robinson Slavery in the Structure of American 1977 Politics, 1765–1820 Richard Kluger Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s 1973 Struggle for Equality Pat Conroy Alfred A. Knopf The Water Is Wide Houghton Mifflin & Co. Michi Weglyn Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of Betty Fladeland America’s Concentration Camps Men & Brothers: Anglo-American William Morrow & Co. Antislavery Cooperation University of Illinois Press 1978 Allan Chase Lee Rainwater The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs Behind Ghetto Walls of the New Scientific Racism Aldine Publishing Co. Alfred A. Knopf Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior Alfred A. Knopf

12 1979 1986 Phillip V. Tobias, ed. Donald Alexander Downs The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community Southern Africa and the First Amendment Human & Rousseau Notre Dame University Press 1980 James North Urie Bronfenbrenner Freedom Rising: Life Under Apartheid The Ecology of Human Development Through the Eyes of an American Harvard University Press on a Four-Year Clandestine Journey Through Southern Africa Richard Borshay Lee Macmillan Publishing Co. The Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society Barton Wright and Cambridge University Press Clifford Bahnimptewa Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Documentary 1981 Northland Press Carol Beckwith and Tepilit Ole Saitoti 1987 Maasai Arnold Rampersad Harry N. Abrams The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1 Oxford University Press Jamake Highwater Song From the Earth Gail Sheehy Little, Brown & Co. Spirit of Survival William Morrow & Co. 1982 Geoffrey G. Field 1988 Evangelist of Race Nadine Gordimer Columbia University Press A Sport of Nature Alfred A. Knopf Peter John Powell People of the Sacred Mountain Walter F. Morris Jr. and Harper & Row Jeffrey Jay Foxx Living Maya 1983 Harry N. Abrams Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory David R. Godine Beloved Alfred A. Knopf Ake: The Years of Childhood Abigail M. Thernstrom Random House Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights 1984 Harvard University Press Jose Alcina Franch Pre-Columbian Art 1989 Harry N. Abrams Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Humbert S. Nelli Years, 1954–63 From Immigrants to Ethnics: Simon & Schuster The Italian Americans Oxford University Press Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth- 1985 Century Black Women Writers (30 volumes) Breyten Breytenbach Oxford University Press Mouroir: Mirror notes of a Novel Farrar, Strauss & Giroux George Lipsitz A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the David S. Wyman Culture of Opposition The Abandonment of the Jews Temple University Press Pantheon Books Peter Sutton Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia George Braziller

13 1990 1993 Hugh Honour Kwame Anthony Appiah The Image of the Black in Western Art In My Father’s House From the American Revolution to World Oxford University Press War I, Vol. 4, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Black Models and Sandra Cisneros White Myths Woman Hollering Creek and Menil Foundation in association with Other Stories Harvard University Press Random House Dolores Kendrick Marija Gimbutas The Women of Plums: Poems in the The Civilization of the Goddess Voices of Slave Women Harper San Francisco William Morrow & Co. 1994 1991 Judith Ortiz Cofer Carol Beckwith and The Latin Deli Angela Fisher The University of Georgia Press African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures David Levering Lewis of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, Harry N. Abrams 1868–1919 Walter A. Jackson Henry Holt and Co. Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Ronald Takaki Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, A Different Mirror 1938–1987 Little, Brown & Co. University of North Carolina Press 1995 Forrest G. Wood Reginald Gibbons The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Sweetbitter Race in America From the Colonial Era to Broken Moon Press the Twentieth Century Alfred A. Knopf Brent Staples Parallel Time: Growing Up in 1992 Black and White Melissa Fay Greene Pantheon Books Praying for Sheetrock Addison-Wesley William H. Tucker The Science and Politics of Peter Hayes, ed. Racial Research Lessons and Legacies: The University of Illinois Press Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World 1996 Northwestern University Press Madison Smartt Bell All Souls’ Rising Elaine Mensh and Pantheon Harry Mensh The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender Jonathan Kozol and Inequality Amazing Grace Southern Illinois University Press Crown Publishers Marilyn Nelson Waniek 1997 The Homeplace Jamaica Kincaid Louisiana State University Press The Autobiography of My Mother Farrar, Strauss & Giroux James McBride The Color of Water Putnam

14 1998 2004 Toi Derricotte Ira Berlin The Black Notebooks Generations of Captivity: A History of W.W. Norton & Co. African-American Slaves Harvard University Press Walter Mosley Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Edward P. Jones W.W. Norton & Co. The Known World Amistad Press/HarperCollins 1999 Russell Banks Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Cloudsplitter Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and HarperCollins Coming of Age in the Bronx Scribner John Lewis Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the 2005 Movement Edwidge Danticat Simon & Schuster The Dew Breaker Alfred A. Knopf 2000 Chang-rae Lee A. Van Jordan A Gesture Life M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A Riverhead Books W.W. Norton & Co. Edward W. Said Geoffrey C. Ward Out of Place Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall Alfred A. Knopf of Jack Johnson Alfred A. Knopf 2001 David Levering Lewis 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and Jill Lepore the American Century, 1919–1963 New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Henry Holt and Co. Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan F.X. Toole Alfred A. Knopf Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner Ecco Press/HarperCollins Zadie Smith On Beauty 2002 Penguin Press Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of 2007 Quincy Jones Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Doubleday Half of a Yellow Sun Alfred A. Knopf Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Vernon Can Read Martha Collins Public Affairs Blue Front Graywolf Press Colson Whitehead John Henry Days Scott Reynolds Nelson Anchor Books Steel Drivin’ Man: The Untold Story of an American Legend 2003 Oxford University Press Stephen L. Carter 2008 The Emperor of Ocean Park Ayaan Hirsi Ali Alfred A. Knopf Infidel Samantha Power Free Press A Problem From Hell: America and the Junot Díaz Age of Genocide The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao New Republic/Basic Books Riverhead Books Reetika Vazirani Mohsin Hamid World Hotel The Reluctant Fundamentalist Copper Canyon Press Harcourt

15 2009 2013 Louise Erdrich Eugene Gloria The Plague of Doves My Favorite Warlord HarperCollins Penguin Books Annette Gordon-Reed Laird Hunt The Hemingses of Monticello Kind One W.W. Norton & Co. Coffee House Press Nam Le Kevin Powers The Boat The Yellow Birds Alfred A. Knopf Back Bay Books 2010 Andrew Solomon Kamila Shamsie Far From the Tree Burnt Shadows Scribner Picador 2014 2011 Anthony Marra David Eltis and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena David Richardson Hogarth Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Yale University Press Adrian Matejka The Big Smoke Nicole Krauss Penguin Books Great House W.W. Norton & Co. Ari Shavit My Promised Land Mary Helen Stefaniak Spiegel & Grau The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia W.W. Norton & Co. Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns Random House 2012 David Blight American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era Harvard University Press Esi Edugyan Half-Blood Blues: A Novel Picador David Livingstone Smith Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others St. Martin’s Press Design: Nesnadny + Schwartz, Cleveland + New + Toronto, York www.NSideas.com

16 Design: Nesnadny + Schwartz, Cleveland + New York + Toronto, www.NSideas.com William Demby,William novelist 2006 playwright Wilson, August 2005 playwright and poet Walcott, Derek 2004 Adrienne Kennedy, playwright 2003 poet Wright, Jay 2002 poet Lucille Clifton, 2001 author Gaines, J. Ernest 2000 historian Franklin, Hope John 1999 and artist Gordon Parks, photographer 1998 and author musician Murray, L. Albert 1997 author West, Dorothy 1996 of cultural diversity. understanding our enhanced Achievement Award to individuals whose life work has recentawards givenIn the has book years, aLifetime jury Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Random House, 1952 Ellison Ralph 1992 40 the on award given was This Achievement Award Special Landmark Invisible Man. of Invisible publication of the

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