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THE 80TH 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, she left her home to the Cleveland Welfare Association, her books to the Cleveland Public Library, and her money to the Cleveland Foundation. 80 YEARS

WELCOME TO THE 80TH ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS PRESENTED BY THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

For 80 years, the Anisfield-Wolf book prize has recognized writers whose works contribute to our understanding of the rich diversity of human cultures.

WELCOME ACCEPTANCE Ronn Richard Jericho Brown President & Chief Executive Poetry Officer, Cleveland Foundation The New Testament

YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCE Marilyn Chin Josiah Poulson Poetry Read his poem on page 8 Hard Love Province

Marlon James INTRODUCTION OF WINNERS Fiction Henry Louis Gates Jr. A Brief History of Seven Killings Chair, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Jury Richard S. Dunn Founding Director, Nonfiction Hutchins Center for African and A Tale of Two Plantations African American Research, Harvard University David Brion Davis Lifetime Achievement POETRY Jericho Brown The New Testament Copper Canyon Press @jerichobrown

Jericho Brown was born Nelson Demery III, raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, and graduated magna cum laude from Dillard University in New Orleans. He worked as a speech writer to the city’s mayor and completed a master’s from the University of New Orleans before earning his doctorate in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston.

Brown won the prestigious Whiting Writers award in 2009 and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Krakow Poetry Seminary in Poland, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, where he worked on his second poetry collection, The New Testament. An assistant professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Brown is celebrated for his intense musicality, lyrical clarity and muscular impact. “Every last word is contagious” he writes to end the poem Heartland.

2 POETRY Marilyn Chin Hard Love Province W.W. Norton & Co. @poetmarilynchin

Marilyn Chin was born Mei Ling Chin in Hong Kong. Her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where her father transliterated her name to Marilyn, the subject of her biting, funny poem How I Got That Name.

After graduating from the University of Massachusetts, Chin earned a master’s at the University of Iowa. Her poetry is known for its edge and finesse, often blending Eastern and Western forms as it addresses biculturalism, feminism and Asian identity.

Chin, a professor at San Diego State University, has received a Stegner fellowship, the Pen/Josephine Miles award, four Pushcart prizes, the Patterson prize, a Fulbright fellowship and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In Hard Love Province, her fourth volume of poetry, she experiments with quatrains, sonnets, haiku, allegories and elegies in precise words whose effect are brazen, icy yet inflamed. Much in the book concerns grief and remembrance of two lovers who have died. Explicitly, Chin honors mentors and influences: Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ai. In these lines, Entertainment Weekly wants to interview Emily Dickinson and girls grow horns.

3 FICTION Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings Riverhead Books @MarlonJames5

Marlon James was born in 1970 in Kingston, Jamaica, the son of a police detective and her lawyer husband. James credits his mother’s perceptiveness in the volatile decade after his birth for informing A Brief History of Seven Killings, a novel that hinges on an actual assassination attempt on Bob Marley in December 1976.

James graduated from the University of West Indies in 1991 with a degree in literature, and then earned a master’s in creative writing from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. He has taught creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, since 2007.

James’ second novel, The Book of Night Women, concerns a slave rebellion on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the dawn of the 19th century. It won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2010 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

A Brief History of Seven Killings is an epic chorus-in-the-round, with some 30 narrators, each in various patois, telling their story as it intersects with the Singer, as James calls the reggae legend over these 700 pages. This tour-de-force novel begins with a ghost, Arthur Jennings, describing his own political murder. With each distinct voice, James creates another angle on violence, drugs, corruption, tenderness and cruelty. “I hate politics,” one charater says. “And I hate that I have to know.”

In April, HBO announced it had optioned the rights to James’ latest novel, which he will adapt for television with screenwriter Eric Roth.

4 NONFICTION Richard S. Dunn A Tale of Two Plantations Harvard University Press

Richard S. Dunn is a professor emeritus of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he founded and directed the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He was born and raised in Minneapolis, and from adolescence, Dunn knew that he wanted to be a scholar.

After graduating from Harvard in 1950, Dunn earned a master’s at Princeton, where he completed his doctorate in history in 1955. He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, rising to lead its history department, win its Lindback teaching award and edit its Early American Studies series of books. He won a Guggenheim fellowship, another from the American Council of Learned Societies and a third from Queen’s College, Oxford University.

Dunn’s book Sugar and Slaves has become a classic work in West Indian studies. It galvanized Dunn’s interest in what slowly became A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia.

More than 40 years in the making, A Tale of Two Plantations is a scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of some 2,000 people enslaved across three generations: roughly half on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Mesopotamia and half on Mount Airy, a Virginia tidewater plantation growing tobacco and grain.

Gracefully written and meticulously documented, the book conjures the final three generations of New World slaves into complex people, working from original ledgers that had listed them as property.

5 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT David Brion Davis Lifetime Achievement Award

David Brion Davis is a leading American intellectual and cultural historian, the author or editor of 16 books. Anisfield-Wolf-winning historian Ira Berlin observed that “no scholar has played a larger role in expanding contemporary understanding of how slavery shaped the history of the United States, the Americas and the world.” And historian Drew Faust Gilpin, president of Harvard University, wrote in 2014 that Davis’ influence was deep, having changed “traditional approaches to intellectual history by embedding ideas in social and political action and institutions.”

Born in 1927 to a journalist and an artist in Denver, Davis spent much of his childhood on the move – a pattern that heightened his sense of contingency in life and history. Before studying philosophy at Dartmouth College, he was drafted and put on a transport ship to Germany in 1945, which he describes in the preface to The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation.

Davis was disturbed by the racism he witnessed in the segregated Army, and greatly impressed by a new book, An American Dilemma, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Book award for Gunnar Myrdal in1945 .

Once stateside, Davis earned his doctorate in the history of American civilization at Harvard. He taught at Cornell for 14 years, winning both an Anisfield-Wolf Book award and a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, the first book in his seminal trilogy. In 1970, he joined the faculty of Yale.

In awarding the National Book Critics Circle prize to Davis in March, the judges lauded the historian for “undermining mythologies of white superiority, black savagery, and passive black victimhood.” Davis retired from Yale in 2001. He lives in Connecticut.

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 Emerita American Research Princeton University 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 Josiah Poulson

Josiah Poulson entered the fifth grade this fall at Lawndale Elementary School in Akron, Ohio. He wrote his poem this spring through the auspices of Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, partner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.

Am I Invisible?

I’ve been down long roads, said yes when I meant no. I lost control of the wheel.

Do you ever wonder when you listen to thunder, why your world feels so small?

Do you ever think what you’re standing at the brink of? Feel like giving up, but can’t walk away?

Put yourself on the line, though you feel inside like they don’t know you’re alive.

Night after night trying to decide, am I gonna speak out or get lost in the crowd?

When the lights go down in the city I’ll be right here shining.

8 Anisfield-Wolf Winners Through the Years

1936 Harold F. Gosnell 1944 Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Roi Ottley Politics in Chicago New World A-Coming University of Chicago Press Houghton Mifflin Co. 1937 Maurice Samuel Julian Huxley and The World of Sholom Aleichem A.C. Haddon Alfred A. Knopf We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems 1945 Gwethalyn Graham Harper & Brothers Earth and High Heaven 1938 J.B. Lippincott Elin L. Anderson We Americans: A Study of Cleavage Gunnar Myrdal in an American City An American Dilemma Harper & Brothers Harvard University Press 1946 1939 Ralph Bunche St. Clair Drake and An Analysis of the Political, Economic Horace Cayton and Social Status of the Non-European Black Metropolis Peoples in South Africa Harcourt Brace & World Social Science Research Council Wallace Stegner with Charles S. Johnson the editors of Look The Negro College Graduate One Nation The University of North Carolina Press Houghton Mifflin Co. 1940 1947 E. Franklin Frazier Sholem Asch The Negro Family in the East River United States Houghton Mifflin Co. University of Chicago Press Pauline R. Kibbe 1941 Latin Americans in Texas Louis Adamic University of New Mexico Press From Many Lands 1948 Harper & Brothers John Collier 1942 The Indians of the Americas Leopold Infeld W.W. Norton & Co. Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist Worth Tuttle Hedden Doubleday Doran & Co. The Other Room James G. Leyburn Crown Publishers The Haitian People 1949 Yale University Press J.C. Furnas 1943 Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the Zora Neale Hurston Islands of the South Seas Dust Tracks on a Road W. Sloane Associates J.B. Lippincott Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country Charles Scribner & Sons

9 1950 1957 S. Andhil Fineberg Gilberto Freyre Punishment Without Crime The Masters and the Slaves: Doubleday & Co. A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization Shirley Graham Alfred A. Knopf Your Most Humble Servant Julian Messner Trevor Huddleston Naught for Your Comfort 1951 Henry Gibbs Doubleday & Co. Twilight in South Africa 1958 Philosophical Library Jessie B. Sams White Mother John Hersey McGraw-Hill Book Co. The Wall Alfred A. Knopf South African Institute of Race Relations 1952 Handbook on Race Relations Brewton Berry Oxford University Press Race Relations Houghton Mifflin Co. 1959 Martin Luther King Jr. Laurens van der Post Stride Toward Freedom: Venture to the Interior The Montgomery Story William Morrow & Co. Harper & Brothers 1953 George Eaton Simpson and Farley Mowat J. Milton Yinger People of the Deer Racial and Cultural Minorities Little, Brown & Co. Harper & Brothers Han Suyin 1960 A Many-Splendored Thing Basil Davidson Little, Brown & Co. The Lost Cities of Africa 1954 Little, Brown & Co. Vernon Bartlett John Haynes Holmes Struggle for Africa I Speak for Myself Charles Scribner & Sons Harper & Brothers Langston Hughes 1961 Simple Takes a Wife E.R. Braithwaite Simon & Schuster To Sir, With Love 1955 Prentice-Hall Publishers & Co. Oden Meeker Louis E. Lomax Report on Africa The Reluctant African Charles Scribner & Sons Harper & Brothers Lyle Saunders 1962 Cultural Differences and Gina Allen Medical Care The Forbidden Man Russell Sage Foundation Chilton 1956 Dwight L. Dumond John P. Dean and Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in Alex Rosen America A Manual of Intergroup Relations University of Michigan Press University of Chicago Press John Howard Griffin George W. Shepherd Jr. Black Like Me They Wait in Darkness Houghton Mifflin Co. John Day Co. 1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species Yale University Press

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. Alex Haley 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 Rutgers University Press Alfred A. Knopf 1975 1972 Eugene D. Genovese George M. Fredrickson Roll, Jordan, Roll The Black Image in the White Mind: The Pantheon Books Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 Leon Poliakov The Aryan Myth Harper & Row Basic Books John S. Haller Jr. Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific 1976 Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, Lucy S. Dawidowicz The War Against the Jews, 1859–1900 1933–1945 University of Illinois Press Holt, Rinehart & Winston David Loye The Healing of a Nation Thomas Kiernan The Arabs W.W. Norton & Co. Little, Brown & Co. Naboth Mokgatle The Autobiography of an Unknown South Raphael Patai and African Jennifer P. Wing The Myth of the Jewish Race University of California Charles Scribner & Sons Donald L. Robinson Slavery in the Structure of American 1977 Politics, 1765–1820 Richard Kluger Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Board of Education and Black America’s 1973 Struggle for Equality Pat Conroy Alfred A. Knopf The Water Is Wide Michi Weglyn Houghton Mifflin & Co. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of Betty Fladeland America’s Concentration Camps Men & Brothers: Anglo-American William Morrow & Co. Antislavery Cooperation 1978 University of Illinois Press 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 Toni Morrison David R. Godine Beloved Alfred A. Knopf Wole Soyinka 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., ed. 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 1994 Hugh Honour Judith Ortiz Cofer The Image of the Black in Western Art The Latin Deli From the American Revolution to World The University of Georgia Press War I, Vol. 4, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Black Models and David Levering Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, White Myths 1868–1919 Menil Foundation in association with Henry Holt and Co. Harvard University Press Dolores Kendrick Ronald Takaki A Different Mirror The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women Little, Brown & Co. William Morrow & Co. 1995 Reginald Gibbons 1991 Carol Beckwith and Sweetbitter Angela Fisher Broken Moon Press African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures Brent Staples of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Parallel Time: Growing Up in Harry N. Abrams Black and White Walter A. Jackson Pantheon Books Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: William H. Tucker Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, The Science and Politics of 1938–1987 Racial Research University of North Carolina Press University of Illinois Press Forrest G. Wood 1996 The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Madison Smartt Bell Race in America From the Colonial Era to All Souls’ Rising the Twentieth Century Pantheon Alfred A. Knopf Jonathan Kozol 1992 Amazing Grace Melissa Fay Greene Crown Publishers Praying for Sheetrock Addison-Wesley 1997 Jamaica Kincaid Peter Hayes, ed. The Autobiography of My Mother Lessons and Legacies: The Farrar, Strauss & Giroux Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World James McBride Northwestern University Press The Color of Water Putnam Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh 1998 The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender Toi Derricotte and Inequality The Black Notebooks Southern Illinois University Press W.W. Norton & Co. Marilyn Nelson Waniek Walter Mosley The Homeplace Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Louisiana State University Press W.W. Norton & Co. 1993 1999 Kwame Anthony Appiah Russell Banks In My Father’s House Cloudsplitter Oxford University Press HarperCollins Sandra Cisneros John Lewis Woman Hollering Creek and Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Other Stories Movement Random House Simon & Schuster Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess Harper San Francisco

14 2000 2005 Chang-rae Lee Edwidge Danticat A Gesture Life The Dew Breaker Riverhead Books Alfred A. Knopf Edward W. Said A. Van Jordan Out of Place M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A Alfred A. Knopf W.W. Norton & Co. 2001 Geoffrey C. Ward David Levering Lewis Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and of Jack Johnson the American Century, 1919–1963 Alfred A. Knopf Henry Holt and Co. 2006 F.X. Toole Jill Lepore Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Ecco Press/HarperCollins Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 2002 Quincy Jones Alfred A. Knopf Q: The Autobiography of Zadie Smith Quincy Jones On Beauty Doubleday Penguin Press Vernon E. Jordan Jr. 2007 Vernon Can Read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Public Affairs Half of a Yellow Sun Colson Whitehead Alfred A. Knopf John Henry Days Martha Collins Anchor Books Blue Front Graywolf Press 2003 Stephen L. Carter Scott Reynolds Nelson The Emperor of Ocean Park Steel Drivin’ Man: The Untold Story of an Alfred A. Knopf American Legend Samantha Power Oxford University Press A Problem From Hell: America and the 2008 Age of Genocide Ayaan Hirsi Ali New Republic/Basic Books Infidel Reetika Vazirani Free Press World Hotel Junot Díaz Copper Canyon Press The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Riverhead Books 2004 Ira Berlin Mohsin Hamid Generations of Captivity: A History of The Reluctant Fundamentalist African-American Slaves Harcourt Harvard University Press 2009 Edward P. Jones Louise Erdrich The Known World The Plague of Doves Amistad Press/HarperCollins HarperCollins Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Annette Gordon-Reed Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and The Hemingses of Monticello Coming of Age in the Bronx W.W. Norton & Co. Scribner Nam Le The Boat Alfred A. Knopf 2010 Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows Picador

15 2011 2014 David Eltis and Anthony Marra David Richardson A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Hogarth Yale University Press Adrian Matejka Nicole Krauss The Big Smoke Great House Penguin Books W.W. Norton & Co. Ari Shavit Mary Helen Stefaniak My Promised Land The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia Spiegel & Grau W.W. Norton & Co. 2015 Isabel Wilkerson Jericho Brown The Warmth of Other Suns The New Testament Random House Copper Canyon Press 2012 Marilyn Chin David Blight Hard Love Province American Oracle: The Civil War W.W. Norton & Co. in the Civil Rights Era Richard S. Dunn Harvard University Press A Tale of Two Plantations Esi Edugyan Harvard University Press Half-Blood Blues: A Novel Marlon James Picador A Brief History of Seven Killings David Livingstone Smith Riverhead Books Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others St. Martin’s Press 2013 Eugene Gloria My Favorite Warlord Penguin Books Laird Hunt Kind One Coffee House Press Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Back Bay Books Andrew Solomon Far From the Tree Scribner 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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