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THE 78TH 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 nationally recognized scholars selects each year’s 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. 78 YEARS

WELCOME TO THE 78TH ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

For 78 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 Eugene Gloria President & Chief Executive Poetry Officer, the Cleveland My Favorite Warlord Foundation Laird Hunt YOUNG ARTIST PERFORMANCE Fiction Kind One Gwyneth Wilde Read her poem at: www.Anisfield-Wolf.org/2013poem Kevin Powers Fiction The Yellow Birds INTRODUCTION OF WINNERS

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Andrew Solomon Chair, Anisfield-Wolf Book Nonfiction Awards Jury Far From the Tree Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University Wole Soyinka Lifetime Achievement Award POETRY Eugene Gloria My Favorite Warlord Penguin Books

Eugene Gloria was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in San Francisco. He was educated at San Francisco State University, Miami University of Ohio, and the University of Oregon. He is the author of three books of poems. His first collection of poetry, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel, was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and also won the Asian American Literary Award. He is also the recipient of a Fulbright Research Grant, a Poetry Society of America award, and a Pushcart Prize.

Gloria collects 35 striking poems in My Favorite Warlord, a vivid, fast-paced book that looks at Filipino heritage, samurai, fathers, masculinity, and memory. “Here, On Earth” considers the bright faces in a restaurant in “a bad neighborhood,” while “Allegory of the Laundromat” recalls 1967, with “astronauts burning in their space capsule, Wole Soyinka being hauled to jail …”

Gloria teaches creative writing and English literature at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He spent the 2013 spring semester as the Arts & Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bowling Green State University.

2 FICTION Laird Hunt Kind One Coffee House Press

Laird Hunt is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories. Kind One is a haunting novel that explores the uncanny intimacy between slave and master. In understated prose, the story tells of two slave sisters who turn tables on their mistress and take her captive after her Kentucky farmer husband dies. Hunt spans the period between the 1850s and 1930 in Kind One, and brings fresh imagining to our nation’s most difficult subject.

Born in Singapore and educated at Indiana University and the Sorbonne in Paris, Laird Hunt has also lived in Tokyo, London, The Hague, New York City, and on an Indiana farm. A translator and former press officer at the United Nations, he is currently a faculty member at the University of Denver, where he edits the Denver Quarterly. He lives in Colorado.

His writings, reviews, and translations have appeared in such pub- lications as the Wall Street Journal, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Bomb, Bookforum, Grand Street, The Believer, Fence, Conjunc- tions, Brick, Mentor, Inculte, and Zoum Zoum.

3 FICTION Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Back Bay Books

The Yellow Birds is a scalding first book that pivots on the last weeks of friendship between 18-year-old Pvt. Daniel Murphy and 21-year-old Pvt. John Bartle, who makes a rash promise to Mrs. Murphy to bring her son home safely from Iraq. Writer Kevin Powers, who joined the Army at age 17 and served as a machine gunner in Iraq, creates a tightly focused, hypnotic story that spirals around his central character’s isolation. Powers has created a piercing portrayal of war.

Kevin Powers was born in Richmond, Va., the son of a factory worker and a postman. He has said he enlisted in the Army as a teenager for “practical reasons”: the GI bill, and “all my male role models had served.” After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in Virginia Commonwealth University, where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in English. He holds an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry.

In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, Powers explained why he wrote The Yellow Birds: “One of the reasons … was the idea that people kept saying, ‘What was it like over there?’ It seemed that it was not an information-based problem. There was lots of information around. But what people really wanted was to know what it felt like: physically, emotionally, and psychologically.”

4 NONFICTION Andrew Solomon Far From the Tree Scribner

Far From the Tree is a magisterial book from Andrew Solomon that parses diversity in its most intimate setting: the family. Solomon considers how parents navigate the world when a child is deaf, autistic, a dwarf, a criminal, a prodigy, or has Down syndrome or one of four other signal identities. Anisfield-Wolf Juror Steven Pinker wrote: “This is a monumental book, the kind that appears once in a decade. It could not be a better example of the literature of diversity.”

In addition to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,Far From the Tree was honored with the National Book Critics Circle Award. Solo- mon’s third book, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the 2001 National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

A native New Yorker, Solomon studied at Yale University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1985, and at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he earned a master’s degree in English. He is a lecturer in psychiatry at Cornell University and special adviser on LGBT affairs to the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry. His journalism appears frequently in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Travel + Leisure, and Newsweek/The Daily Beast. He lives with his husband and chil- dren in Manhattan and London.

5 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Wole Soyinka Lifetime Achievement Award

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, essayist, and profile in courage. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, the first African to be so honored.

At 78, he still afflicts the political tyrants in his path, as he has since he was a young man.

Born into a prominent Nigerian family in 1934, Soyinka wrote a detailed account of his early life in Ake: The Years of Childhood, which won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction in 1983.

Soyinka has consistently criticized Nigerian military dictators and political tyrannies worldwide since the mid-1960s. In 1967, Nigerian authorities arrested Soyinka and placed him in solitary confine- ment for 22 months for attempting to broker peace during the Biafran War. The prisoner wrote on scraps of paper, which contrib- uted to The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka. In awarding him its literature prize in 1986, the Nobel jury cited him as a writer “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.”

Soyinka splits his time between his Nigerian home in Ogun state and Los Angeles, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.

6 The Awards Jury

An independent panel of nationally known 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 Alphonse Fletcher of English Professor in the Humanities University Professor University of Virginia 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 Anisfield-Wolf Winners Through the Years

1936 Maurice Samuel Harold F. Gosnell The World of Sholom Aleichem Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Alfred A. Knopf Politics in Chicago University of Chicago Press 1945 Gwethalyn Graham 1937 Earth and High Heaven Julian Huxley and J.B. Lippincott A.C. Haddon Gunnar Myrdal We Europeans: A Survey of An American Dilemma “Racial” Problems Harper & Brothers Harper & Brothers 1946 1938 St. Clair Drake and no award Horace Cayton 1939 Black Metropolis Harcourt Brace & World no award Wallace Stegner with 1940 the editors of Look E. Franklin Frazier One Nation The Negro Family in the Houghton Mifflin Co. United States University of Chicago Press 1947 Sholem Asch 1941 East River Louis Adamic Houghton Mifflin Co. From Many Lands Harper & Brothers Pauline R. Kibbe Latin Americans in Texas 1942 University of New Mexico Press

Leopold Infeld 1948 Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist Doubleday Doran & Co. John Collier The Indians of the Americas James G. Leyburn W.W. Norton & Co. The Haitian People Yale University Press Worth Tuttle Hedden The Other Room 1943 Crown Publishers

Zora Neale Hurston 1949 Dust Tracks on a Road J.B. Lippincott J.C. Furnas Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and 1944 the Islands of the South Seas Roi Ottley W. Sloane Associates New World A-Coming Houghton Mifflin Co.

8 Alan Paton Lyle Saunders Cry, the Beloved Country Cultural Differences and Charles Scribner & Sons Medical Care Russell Sage Foundation 1950 S. Andhil Fineberg 1956 Punishment Without Crime John P. Dean and Doubleday & Co. Alex Rosen A Manual of Intergroup Relations Shirley Graham University of Chicago Press Your Most Humble Servant Julian Messner George W. Shepherd Jr. They Wait in Darkness 1951 John Day Co. Henry Gibbs Twilight in South Africa 1957 Philosophical Library Gilberto Freyre The Masters and the Slaves: John Hersey A Study in the Development of The Wall Alfred A. Knopf Brazilian Civilization Alfred A. Knopf 1952 Trevor Huddleston Brewton Berry Naught for Your Comfort Race Relations Doubleday & Co. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1958 Laurens van der Post Venture to the Interior Jessie B. Sams William Morrow & Co. White Mother McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1953 South African Institute Farley Mowat of Race Relations People of the Deer Handbook on Race Relations Little, Brown & Co. Oxford University Press Han Suyin 1959 A Many-Splendored Thing Little, Brown & Co. Martin Luther King Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: 1954 The Montgomery Story Vernon Bartlett Harper & Brothers Struggle for Africa George Eaton Simpson and Charles Scribner & Sons J. Milton Yinger Langston Hughes Racial and Cultural Minorities Simple Takes a Wife Harper & Brothers Simon & Schuster 1960 1955 Basil Davidson Oden Meeker The Lost Cities of Africa Report on Africa Little, Brown & Co. Charles Scribner & Sons John Haynes Holmes I Speak for Myself Harper & Brothers

9 1961 James M. McPherson E.R. Braithwaite The Struggle for Equality: To Sir, With Love Abolitionists and the Negro in the Prentice-Hall Publishers & Co. Civil War and Reconstruction Princeton University Press Louis E. Lomax The Reluctant African Abram L. Sachar Harper & Brothers A History of the Jews Alfred A. Knopf 1962 James W. Silver Gina Allen Mississippi: The Closed Society The Forbidden Man Harcourt Brace & World Chilton Dwight L. Dumond 1966 Antislavery: The Crusade for H.C. Baldry Freedom in America The Unity of Mankind in University of Michigan Press Greek Thought Cambridge University Press John Howard Griffin Black Like Me Claude Brown Houghton Mifflin Co. Manchild in the Promised Land Macmillan Publishing Co. 1963 Malcolm X and Theodosius Dobzhansky Alex Haley Mankind Evolving: The Evolution The Autobiography of Malcolm X of the Human Species Grove Press Yale University Press Amram Scheinfeld 1964 Your Heredity and Environment Nathan Glazer and J.B. Lippincott Daniel P. Moynihan Beyond the Melting Pot: The 1967 Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, David Brion Davis Italians and Irish of New York City The Problem of Slavery in M.I.T. Press & Harvard University Press Western Culture Cornell University Press Harold R. Isaacs The New World of Negro Americans Oscar Lewis John Day Co. La Vida Random House Bernhard E. Olson Faith and Prejudice 1968 Yale University Press Norman Cohn 1965 Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and Milton M. Gordon “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Assimilation in American Life: Harper & Row The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins Robert Coles Oxford University Press Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear Little, Brown & Co.

10 Raul Hilberg Carleton Mabee The Destruction of the Black Freedom: The Nonviolent European Jews Abolitionists from 1830 through Quadrangle the Civil War Macmillan Publishing Co. Erich Kahler The Jews Among the Nations Stan Steiner Ungar La Raza: The Mexican Americans Harper & Row 1969 E. Earl Baughman and Anthony F.C. Wallace The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca W. Grant Dahlstrom Alfred A. Knopf Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the 1972 Rural South George M. Fredrickson Academic Press The Black Image in the White Mind: Gwendolyn Brooks The Debate on Afro-American In the Mecca Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 Harper & Row Harper & Row Leonard Dinnerstein John S. Haller Jr. The Leo Frank Case Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Columbia University Press Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859–1900 Stuart Levine and University of Illinois Press Nancy O. Lurie The American Indian Today David Loye Everett/Edwards The Healing of a Nation W.W. Norton & Co. 1970 Dan T. Carter Naboth Mokgatle Scottsboro The Autobiography of an Unknown Louisiana State University Press South African University of California Vine Deloria Jr. Custer Died for Your Sins: Donald L. Robinson An Indian Manifesto Slavery in the Structure of American Macmillan Publishing Co. Politics, 1765–1820 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Florestan Fernandes The Negro in Brazilian Society 1973 Columbia University Press Pat Conroy Audrie Girdner and The Water Is Wide Anne Loftis Houghton Mifflin & Co. The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation Betty Fladeland of the Japanese-Americans During Men & Brothers: Anglo-American World War II Antislavery Cooperation Macmillan Publishing Co. University of Illinois Press

1971 Lee Rainwater Robert W. July Behind Ghetto Walls A History of the African People Aldine Publishing Co. Charles Scribner & Sons

11 1974 1978 Charles Duguid Allan Chase Doctor and the Aborigines The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Rigby Limited Costs of the New Scientific Racism Alfred A. Knopf Michel Fabre The Unfinished Quest of Maxine Hong Kingston Richard Wright The Woman Warrior William Morrow & Co. Alfred A. Knopf

Albie Sachs 1979 Justice in South Africa Phillip V. Tobias, ed. University of California Press The Bushmen: San Hunters and Louis Snyder Herders of Southern Africa The Dreyfus Case Human & Rousseau Rutgers University Press 1980 1975 Urie Bronfenbrenner Eugene D. Genovese The Ecology of Human Development Roll, Jordan, Roll Harvard University Press Pantheon Books Richard Borshay Lee Leon Poliakov The Kung San: Men, Women and The Aryan Myth Work in a Foraging Society Basic Books Cambridge University Press

1976 1981 Lucy S. Dawidowicz Carol Beckwith and The War Against the Jews, Tepilit Ole Saitoti 1933–1945 Maasai Holt, Rinehart & Winston Harry N. Abrams Thomas Kiernan Jamake Highwater The Arabs Song From the Earth Little, Brown & Co. Little, Brown & Co.

Raphael Patai and 1982 Jennifer P. Wing Geoffrey G. Field The Myth of the Jewish Race Evangelist of Race Charles Scribner & Sons Columbia University Press 1977 Peter John Powell Richard Kluger People of the Sacred Mountain Simple Justice: The History of Brown Harper & Row v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality 1983 Alfred A. Knopf Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory Michi Weglyn David R. Godine Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps Wole Soyinka William Morrow & Co. Ake: The Years of Childhood Random House

12 1984 Walter F. Morris Jr. and Jose Alcina Franch Jeffrey Jay Foxx Pre-Columbian Art Living Maya Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams Humbert S. Nelli Toni Morrison From Immigrants to Ethnics: Beloved The Italian Americans Alfred A. Knopf Oxford University Press Abigail M. Thernstrom 1985 Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights Breyten Breytenbach Harvard University Press Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1989 David S. Wyman Taylor Branch The Abandonment of the Jews Parting the Waters: America in the Pantheon Books King Years, 1954–63 Simon & Schuster 1986 Henry Louis Gates Jr. Donald Alexander Downs The Schomburg Library of Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Nineteenth-Century Black Women Community and the First Writers (30 volumes) Amendment Oxford University Press Notre Dame University Press George Lipsitz James North A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry Freedom Rising: Life Under and the Culture of Opposition Apartheid Through the Eyes of Temple University Press an American on a Four-Year Clandestine Journey Through Peter Sutton Southern Africa Dreamings: The Art of Macmillan Publishing Co. Aboriginal Australia George Braziller Barton Wright and Clifford Bahnimptewa 1990 Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Hugh Honour Documentary The Image of the Black in Western Northland Press Art From the American Revolution 1987 to World War I, Vol. 4, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Arnold Rampersad Black Models and White Myths The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. 1 Menil Foundation in association with Oxford University Press Harvard University Press Gail Sheehy Dolores Kendrick Spirit of Survival The Women of Plums: Poems in the William Morrow & Co. Voices of Slave Women William Morrow & Co. 1988 Nadine Gordimer A Sport of Nature Alfred A. Knopf

13 1991 1994 Carol Beckwith and Judith Ortiz Cofer Angela Fisher The Latin Deli African Ark: People and Ancient The University of Georgia Press Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn David Levering Lewis 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 Ronald Takaki Conscience: Social Engineering and A Different Mirror Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 Little, Brown & Co. University of North Carolina Press Forrest G. Wood 1995 The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity Reginald Gibbons and Race in America From the Sweetbitter Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century Broken Moon Press 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 Elaine Mensh and All Souls’ Rising Harry Mensh Pantheon The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Jonathan Kozol Gender and Inequality Amazing Grace Southern Illinois University Press Crown Publishers Marilyn Nelson Waniek 1997 The Homeplace Louisiana State University Press Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother 1993 Farrar, Strauss & Giroux Kwame Anthony Appiah James McBride In My Father’s House The Color of Water Oxford University Press Putnam Sandra Cisneros 1998 Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Toi Derricotte Random House The Black Notebooks W.W. Norton & Co. Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess Walter Mosley Harper San Francisco Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned W.W. Norton & Co.

14 1999 Reetika Vazirani Russell Banks World Hotel Cloudsplitter Copper Canyon Press HarperCollins 2004 John Lewis Ira Berlin Walking With the Wind: A Memoir Generations of Captivity: A History of the Movement of African-American Slaves Simon & Schuster Harvard University Press 2000 Edward P. Jones Chang-rae Lee The Known World A Gesture Life Amistad Press/HarperCollins Riverhead Books Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Edward W. Said Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, Out of Place and Coming of Age in the Bronx Alfred A. Knopf Scribner

2001 2005 David Levering Lewis Edwidge Danticat W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for The Dew Breaker Equality and the American Century, Alfred A. Knopf 1919–1963 A. Van Jordan Henry Holt and Co. M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A F.X. Toole W.W. Norton & Co. Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner Geoffrey C. Ward Ecco Press/HarperCollins Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise 2002 and Fall of Jack Johnson Alfred A. Knopf Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of 2006 Quincy Jones Jill Lepore Doubleday New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, Vernon E. Jordan Jr. and Conspiracy in Eighteenth- Vernon Can Read Century Manhattan Public Affairs Alfred A. Knopf Colson Whitehead Zadie Smith John Henry Days On Beauty Anchor Books Penguin Press

2003 2007 Stephen L. Carter Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Emperor of Ocean Park Half of a Yellow Sun Alfred A. Knopf Alfred A. Knopf Samantha Power Martha Collins A Problem From Hell: America and Blue Front the Age of Genocide Graywolf Press New Republic/Basic Books

15 Scott Reynolds Nelson 2012 Steel Drivin’ Man: The Untold Story David Blight of an American Legend American Oracle: The Civil War Oxford University Press in the Civil Rights Era Harvard University Press 2008 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Esi Edugyan Infidel Half-Blood Blues: A Novel Free Press Picador Junot Díaz David Livingstone Smith The Brief Wondrous Life of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Oscar Wao Enslave, and Exterminate Others Riverhead Books St. Martin’s Press Mohsin Hamid 2013 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Eugene Gloria Harcourt My Favorite Warlord Penguin Books 2009 Louise Erdrich Laird Hunt The Plague of Doves Kind One HarperCollins Coffee House Press Annette Gordon-Reed Kevin Powers The Hemingses of Monticello The Yellow Birds W.W. Norton & Co. Back Bay Books Nam Le Andrew Solomon The Boat Far From the Tree Alfred A. Knopf Scribner

2010 Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows Picador

2011 David Eltis and David Richardson Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Yale University Press Nicole Krauss Great House W.W. Norton & Co. Mary Helen Stefaniak The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia W.W. Norton & Co. Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns Random House Design: Nesnadny + Schwartz, Cleveland + New + Toronto, York www.NSideas.com

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

2008 Branch, Taylor 2007 Demby,William 2006 Wilson, August 2005 Wole Soyinka, Soyinka, Wole 2013 Arnold Rampersad, biographer 2012 author Wideman, Edgar John 2011 and philanthropist Winfrey, Oprah Wilson, Julius William Elizabeth Alexander, 2010 Paule Marshall, 2009 Kelley, Melvin William Invisible Man. Invisible historian playwright th novelist playwright television host host television anniversary novelist poet novelist sociologist

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