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THE 81ST ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS Since 1935, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has recognized writers whose works confront racism and celebrate diversity. The prizes are given each year to outstanding books published in English the previous year. An independent jury of inter­ nationally 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. 81 YEARS

WELCOME TO THE 81ST ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS PRESENTED BY THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For 81 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 Rowan Ricardo Phillips President & Chief Executive Poetry Officer, Cleveland Foundation Heaven

YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCE Mary Morris Lily Tidrick Fiction Read her poem on page 8 The Jazz Palace

Lillian Faderman INTRODUCTION OF WINNERS Nonfiction Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Gay Revolution: Chair, Anisfield-Wolf Book The Story of the Struggle Awards Jury Founding Director, Brian Seibert Hutchins Center for African and Nonfiction African American Research, What the Eye Hears: Harvard University A History of Tap Dancing

Orlando Patterson Lifetime Achievement POETRY Rowan Ricardo Phillips Heaven Farrar, Straus & Giroux @RowanRicardo

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, raised in , found himself writing much of his second poetry collection in the mountains of Aspen, Colorado. He is a translator and critic with an affinity for languages, and has won a Whiting award, a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant and a Pen/Joyce Osterweil prize.

Educated at and , Phillips is also a lauded sportswriter, covering basketball and soccer for The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The New Republic. He lives in Barcelona and New York.

“I’m a skygazer by compulsion,” he told poet Lawrence Joseph. “I always have been.”

So Heaven brims with 38 poems that ask “Who the hell’s Heaven is this?” and then splinters the answers into a night sky’s worth of pos- sibilities. When Heaven published, Phillips created a kind of liner notes by sharing early drafts on social media. Readers could see George Zimmerman in the opening of News From the Muse of Not Guilty:

“He sits in a Hawaiian shirt over a bulletproof vest, Slumped in a beach chair, its back to the ocean. Even his red wine spritzer tastes like Skittles now.”

Phillips’ words insists on the strangeness of difference — the classics haunt his poems, but so do roosters in Ohio, Led Zeppelin riffs in the basement and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Asked about his mix tape of formal poetic strategies, Phillips said, “There’s a line by the Catalan poet J.V. Foix that best sums up my feelings about all of this — M’exalta el nou i m’enamora el vell, or, ‘I’m exalted by the new and in love with the old.’”

2 FICTION Mary Morris The Jazz Palace Nan A. Talese/Doubleday @mmorris14

Mary Morris was born in Chicago, and although she left to study and settle in the east, her hometown tie remained. Now a professor of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Morris likes the fact that there is more magnetism around the shores of Lake Michigan than the North Pole.

A veteran crafter of both fiction and nonfiction, Morris has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rome Prize for Literature and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She studied jazz piano, made many trips to Chicago and spent some 17 years writing The Jazz Palace, musing that the novel would not give up on her. Meanwhile, her other works were translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch.

A celebrated travel writer, Morris is deeply interested in the tensions of home and away. European immigrant and Great Migration characters — fictional and actual — populateThe Jazz Palace in Prohibition-era Chicago.

Morris’ 15th book teams with clubs and gangsters, experimental music, and new arrivals. The story centers on three characters: the black trumpeter Napoleon Hill, the Jewish pianist Benny Lehrman and Pearl Chimbrova, who gamely switches her family’s candy store into a saloon. The story revels in a bittersweet time when music got faster, skirts got shorter and the public appetite for pleasure surged.

“What I always loved about Chicago and I still love about Chicago (is that) on the one hand, it’s very cosmopolitan, and on the other hand, it’s still at the edge of the West,” Morris told the Chicago Tribune. “It still has that gritty, rough feeling.”

She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.

3 NONFICTION Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle Simon & Schuster @lillianfaderman

Lillian Faderman, a leading scholar of LGBT history, tells her own story in the 2003 memoir Naked in the Promised Land. The book traces a pinched childhood, a young adulthood as a model and habitué of the Los Angeles lesbian underground and long decades as a writer and professor, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Los Angeles and teaching at San Francisco State University, Fresno. She retired in 2007.

Faderman’s 10th book, The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle chronicles a larger, unfinished story. Through more than 150 interviews and documents from 20 archives, it explores “how we got here.”

In vivid prose, Faderman traces court cases and brave individuals, heart-breaking reversals and formidable opponents. The book begins in mid-century, when American gays were prosecuted as criminals, crazies and subversives. It considers the Stonewall uprising and the activism honed in the AIDS epidemic. It contrasts the 1948 ruination of a beloved, closeted Missouri journalism professor with the 2012 federal ceremony promoting Tammy Smith to Army General, where her wife affixed the new stars to her epaulets.

The writer crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: “We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!”

Faderman lives with partner Phyllis Irwin in Fresno and San Diego. She has won six Lambda Literary Awards, two American Library Association Awards and Yale University’s James Brudner Award. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Czech and Slovenian.

4 NONFICTION Brian Seibert What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing Farrar, Straus & Giroux

In the 1980s, when Brian Seibert was growing up in suburban Los Angeles, he learned a few basic tap steps in dance class. As an adult in New York City, he came upon Swing 46, a midtown club where a tapper of almost 90 named Buster Brown presided over Crazy Tap Jam. He opened the floor to all comers, asking “Who’s got their shoes on?”

Seibert begins his authoritative, witty and racially nuanced book about a uniquely American art form with that moment in Swing 46. Ten years in the making, it explores a tradition that “works very hard to create an illusion of ease” and spontaneity, even as it illuminates centuries of complex American culture.

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing is a revelatory work interested in both assimilation and appropriation. Seibert, a dancer educated at Yale and Columbia universities, is keenly aware of the trickster in tap. “What the eye sees is sharpened by what the ear hears,” Seibert writes, quoting dancer Paul Draper. “And the ear hears more clearly that which sight enhances.”

Among the many profiles of tap practitioners, the reader meets Jimmy Slyde, John Bubbles and Savion Glover. Their work argues that it is “possible to play jazz at the highest level with one’s feet.” Still, “compared with tap,” Seibert writes, “both ballet and ‘America’s clas- sical music’ are established, with well-funded institutions and a thick body of professional and amateur scholarship bestowing cultural respect. Tap is much poorer, scrappier, more vulnerable.”

With his first book, Seibert, a dance critic for the New York Times, has made it less so. He lives with his wife and daughter in Brooklyn, New York.

5 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Orlando Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award

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Orlando Patterson is a public intellectual and the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Praised across the humanities as a Renaissance scholar, Patterson has written globally influential books on slavery and its opposite pole, freedom.

Patterson also served eight years as advisor for social policy and development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, where he helped set up a subsidized program of food staples that cut hunger on the island. He is an expert in the sociology of sports, particularly crick- et. His first books were novels, which he published in London to critical acclaim — the Daily Telegraph called Patterson “the Caribbean Zola.”

Born in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, Patterson is the son of Thomas and Almina Patterson, a police detective and a seamstress. He described his childhood town’s library: “I used to go there, and read and read and read. That was a transformative experience. I just read. Instead of shooting birds or swimming in the Rio Minho river, I’d go to the library.”

He earned a scholarship to the University College of the West Indies in Kingston, then a Ph.D. in sociology in 1965 at the London School of Economics, which appointed him to the faculty.

When he arrived at Harvard in 1969, he found the environs suited him. Patterson remade the field of sociology with such works asSlavery and Social Death in 1982 and Freedom in the Making of Western Culture. It won a National Book Award in 1991.

Patterson is to married Anita Goldman Patterson, a professor of English at Boston University. They live near Harvard Square with their daughter.

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 , 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 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 Lily Tidrick

Lily Tidrick entered the sixth grade this fall at Urban Community School in Cleveland, Ohio. She wrote “My Heart” last spring when her class was reading and writing poems during an innovative curriculum led by Amanda Stovicek, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards teaching artist.

My Heart

Sometimes my heart feels like a baseball thrown into the air.

Sometimes my heart is hoping for a scarf against the cold.

Sometimes my heart feels like it is floating to the top of a chimney then falling all the way down.

Sometimes my heart waits to put on its glasses to take a closer look at life.

Sometimes my heart sits on the bench thinking about why it waited so long to show the world how much it can love.

8 Anisfield-Wolf Winners Through the Years

1936 1944 Harold F. Gosnell Roi Ottley Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro New World A-Coming Politics in Chicago Houghton Mifflin Co. University of Chicago Press Maurice Samuel 1937 The World of Sholom Aleichem Julian Huxley and Alfred A. Knopf A.C. Haddon We Europeans: A Survey of 1945 “Racial” Problems Gwethalyn Graham Earth and High Heaven Harper & Brothers J.B. Lippincott 1938 Elin L. Anderson Gunnar Myrdal We Americans: A Study of Cleavage An American Dilemma in an American City Harper & Brothers Harvard University Press 1946 1939 St. Clair Drake and Ralph Bunche Horace Cayton An Analysis of the Political, Economic Black Metropolis and Social Status of the Non-European Harcourt Brace & World Peoples in South Africa Wallace Stegner with Social Science Research Council the editors of Look Charles S. Johnson One Nation The Negro College Graduate Houghton Mifflin Co. The University of North Carolina Press 1947 1940 Sholem Asch E. Franklin Frazier East River The Negro Family in the Houghton Mifflin Co. United States Pauline R. Kibbe University of Chicago Press Latin Americans in Texas 1941 University of New Mexico Press Louis Adamic 1948 From Many Lands John Collier Harper & Brothers The Indians of the Americas 1942 W.W. Norton & Co. Leopold Infeld Worth Tuttle Hedden Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist The Other Room Doubleday Doran & Co. Crown Publishers James G. Leyburn 1949 The Haitian People J.C. Furnas Yale University Press Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the 1943 Islands of the South Seas W. Sloane Associates Dust Tracks on a Road Alan Paton J.B. Lippincott 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 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. 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 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., 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 2016 St. Martin’s Press Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution: 2013 The Story of the Struggle Eugene Gloria Simon & Schuster My Favorite Warlord Penguin Books Mary Morris The Jazz Palace Laird Hunt Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Kind One Coffee House Press Rowan Ricardo Phillips Heaven Kevin Powers Farrar, Straus & Giroux The Yellow Birds Little, Brown & Co. Brian Seibert What the Eye Hears: Andrew Solomon A History of Tap Dancing Far From the Tree Farrar, Straus & Giroux 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 2006 Wilson, August 2005 playwright Walcott, Derek 2004 Adrienne Kennedy, 2003 Wright, Jay 2002 Lucille Clifton, 2001 Gaines, J. Ernest 2000 Franklin, Hope John 1999 and artist Gordon Parks, 1998 and author Murray, L. Albert 1997 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 poet photographer poet author poet and and poet playwright novelist author musician playwright historian Random House, 1952 Ellison Ralph 1992 of publication of the 40 the on award given was This Achievement Award Special Landmark

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