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Welcome to the 2009 Anisfield-Wolf Mark your calendars and join us for Book Awards ceremony. For more these upcoming Anisfield-Wolf Book than 70 years, the Anisfield-Wolf Awards activities. Book Awards has recognized writers whose works contribute to our City Club of Cleveland Anisfield-Wolf Program, featuring Annette Gordon-Reed understanding and appreciation of 2009 winner, The Hemingses of Monticello the rich diversity of human cultures. Friday, September 11, 2009 City Club of Cleveland 850 Euclid Avenue Noon WELCOME Panel Discussion: The Work of Jamaica Kincaid Ronald B. Richard Tuesday, September 15, 2009 President & Chief Executive Officer Cleveland Public Library The Cleveland Foundation Martin Luther King Jr. Branch 1962 Stokes Boulevard INTRODUCTION OF 2009 WINNERS Free and open to the public Henry Louis Gates Jr. 6 P.M. Chairperson, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Jury Panel includes Drs. Marilyn Mobley and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Erika Olbricht of Case Western Reserve University. Harvard University Sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library. ACCEPTANCE 5th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Lecture, Louise Erdrich featuring Jamaica Kincaid The Plague of Doves

1997 winner, The Autobiography of My Mother Nam Le Tuesday, September 22, 2009 The Boat Amasa Stone Chapel 10940 Euclid Avenue Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello 4:30 P.M. Presented by Case Western Reserve University Paule Marshall Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, SAGES, the Lifetime Achievement Award Cleveland Foundation and Cleveland Public Library.

2009 Anisfield-Wolf Television Special Thursday, October 15, 2009 WKYC-TV, Channel 3 field-Wolf Awards Jury The Cleveland Foundation wishes to thank the 7:30 P.M. Cleveland Public Library, A Cultural Exchange, Case Western Reserve University Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the City Club of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Public Library, and the LIT for their support. About the Authors

Annette urban Native population in Boston, she is the author Gordon-Reed of 13 novels, as well as volumes of poetry, children’s The Hemingses books, and a memoir of early motherhood. of Monticello Her award-winning novels include, Love Medicine, winner of the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Growing up in a then- Award; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No segregated east Texas, Horse, a finalist for the National Book Award; and Annette Gordon-Reed The Plague of Doves, a New York Times bestseller was intrigued by Thomas and a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Jefferson after reading a Erdrich received a bachelor’s degree from children’s biography nar- Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in rated by a fictional slave. Photo by Jerry Bauer creative writing from Johns Hopkins University. Her interest in Jefferson She currently resides in Minnesota and is the owner continued when, at age 14, she concealed her minor of Birchbark Books, an independent bookstore. status to join a book-of-the-month club in order to receive another Jefferson biography. Gordon-Reed continued her study of Jefferson’s life at Dartmouth Nam Le College, where she majored in history. She is also a The Boat graduate of Harvard Law School. Born in Vietnam and Her newest book, The Hemingses of Monticello, raised in Australia, Nam received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for history and 2008 Le left a career in law to National Book Award for nonfiction. An earlier work, attend the Iowa Writers’ Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Workshop as a Truman Controversy, was applauded for its comprehensive and Capote Fellow. He has definitive look at the intricate and often misunderstood since been showered with relationship between Jefferson and one of his female writing awards, among slaves. Gordon-Reed edited Race On Trial: Law and them the Dylan Thomas Justice in American History, and co-authored Vernon Prize, the NSW Premier’s Photo by Joanne Chan Can Read: A Memoir, a 2002 Anisfield-Wolf winner. Literary Award for Book Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York of the Year, the UTS Glenda Adams Award, the Law School and a professor of history at Rutgers Pushcart Prize and the Michener-Copernicus University. She resides in Manhattan. Society of America Award. He also has received fellowships from the Louise Erdrich Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Phillips The Plague of Doves Exeter Academy, and the University of East Anglia. His fiction has been widely anthologized and A Native American whose has appeared in venues including Best American mother is of Ojibwe Nonrequired Reading 2007, Zoetrope: All Story, descent, Louise Erdrich is A Public Space, One Story, NPR’s Selected Shorts widely acclaimed as one and Prospect Magazine. of the most significant Le holds a bachelor’s degree and LLB from the Native writers today. In University of Melbourne. He is currently the Harvard addition to serving as a Review fiction editor and divides his time between past editor for The Circle, Australia and the United States. a newspaper for the Photo by Persia Erdrich Edith Anisfield Wolf 1889–1963 About the Prize

he Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognizes Paule recent books that have made important Marshall Tcontributions to our understanding of Lifetime racism and our appreciation of the rich Achievement diversity of human culture. They are books Award that open and challenge our minds. Brooklyn-born Paule Marshall is the daughter Established in 1935, the Anisfield-Wolf of Barbados immigrants prize is the only American book award whose West Indian designated specifically to recognize works Photo by Daniela Zedda influence winds its way addressing issues of racism and diversity. through her works. She Past winners have presented the extraordi- began her career as the food and fashion editor at nary art and culture of peoples around the Our World, a small African- American magazine. It world, explored human rights violations, was there she started her first novel, Brown Girl, exposed the effects of racism on children, Brownstones, a coming-of-age story of a young reflected on growing up bi-racial, and American girl with Bajan parents exploring the inter- illuminated the dignity of people as they sections of race, culture, and class. reach for justice. Marshall is the author of five novels: Brown Girl, The prizes are given each year to books Brownstones; The Chosen Place, The Timeless People; published in English in the previous year. Praisesong for the Widow; Daughters; and The Fisher Generally, one award is given for a work of King. She also has published two collections of short nonfiction and another for fiction or poetry. fiction. An independent jury of nationally recog- She was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1960 nized scholars selects each year’s winning and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992. She books. Each author receives a monetary also is a winner of the John Dos Passos Prize for prize at a ceremony held annually in Literature, among other honors. Cleveland, Ohio. Marshall recently retired from New York University, where she held the Helen Gould Sheppard Chair of Since 1963, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Literature and Culture. She continues to write, has been administered by the Cleveland having just published her memoir, Triangular Road. Foundation, the world’s first-ever community Marshall resides in Richmond, Va. foundation. Prior to that time, it was under the sponsorship of Saturday Review. From the early sixties until 1996, Ashley Montagu, the internationally renowned anthropologist and author, chaired the awards jury. Cleveland poet and philanthropist Edith Anisfield Wolf established the book prizes in honor of her father and husband to reflect her family’s passion for issues of social justice. Anisfield-Wolf Winners Through the Years

1936 Harold Gosnell Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago Edith University of Chicago Press Anisfield 1937 Julian Huxley and A.C. Haddon We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems Wolf Harper & Brothers 1889–1963 1938 (no award) 1939 (no award) 1940 E. Franklin Frazier The Negro Family in the United States University of Chicago Press

rom the time she was a young girl, Edith 1941 Louis Adamic From Many Lands Anisfield Wolf was passionately committed Harper & Brothers Fto social justice. Her father, John Anisfield, took great care to nurture his only child’s 1942 Leopold Infeld sense of local and world issues. After a Quest Doubleday Doran & Co. successful career in the garment industry, he retired early to devote his life to charity. James G. Leyburn The Haitian People Edith helped to administer his philanthropy. Yale University Press

A published poet and civic activist, Edith 1943 Zora Neale Hurston skillfully managed her family’s large estate. Dust Tracks on a Road She was active with the Cleveland Public J.B. Lippincott Library for 20 years, working to ensure 1944 Maurice Samuel that the library had books from all cultures The World of Sholom Aleichem and was a forum where citizens could meet Alfred A. Knopf to debate the issues of the day. Roi Ottley New World A-Coming Because Edith Anisfield Wolf was a poet, Houghton Mifflin Co. she used literature as a means to explore 1945 Gwethalyn Graham racial prejudice and to celebrate human Earth and High Heaven diversity. A woman ahead of her time, she J.B. Lippincott established the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Gunnar Myrdal in 1935, some 20 years before the landmark An American Dilemma Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Harper & Brothers Court decision. 1946 Wallace Stegner with the Upon her death, she left her home to the Editors of Look One Nation Cleveland Welfare Association, her books to Houghton Mifflin Co. the Cleveland Public Library and her funds to the Cleveland Foundation for a commu- St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton Black Metropolis nity service award, aid for the needy, and Harcourt Brace & World the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. 1947 Sholem Asch 1955 Oden Meeker East River Report on Africa Houghton Mifflin Co. Charles Scribner & Sons Pauline R. Kibbe Lyle Saunders Latin Americans in Texas Cultural Differences and Medical Care University of New Mexico Press Russell Sage Foundation

1948 Worth Tuttle Hedden 1956 John P. Dean and Alex Rosen The Other Room A Manual of Intergroup Relations Crown Publishers University of Chicago Press John Collier George W. Shepherd Jr. The Indians of the Americas They Wait in Darkness W.W. Norton & Co. John Day Co.

1949 Alan Paton 1957 Father Trevor Huddleston Cry, The Beloved Country Naught for Your Comfort Charles Scribner & Sons Doubleday & Co. J.C. Furnas Gilberto Freyre Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Islands of the South Seas the Development of Brazilian Civilization W. Sloane Associates Alfred A. Knopf

1950 S. Andhil Fineberg 1958 Jessie B. Sams Punishment Without Crime White Mother Doubleday & Co. McGraw-Hill Book Co. Shirley Graham South African Institute of Race Relations Your Most Humble Servant Handbook on Race Relations Julian Messner Oxford University Press

1951 John Hersey 1959 Martin Luther King Jr. The Wall Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Alfred A. Knopf Harper & Brothers Henry Gibbs George Eaton Simpson and J. Milton Yinger Twilight in South Africa Racial and Cultural Minorities Philosophical Library Harper & Brothers

1952 Laurens van der Post 1960 John Haynes Holmes Venture to the Interior I Speak for Myself William Morrow & Co. Harper & Brothers Brewton Berry Basil Davidson Race Relations The Lost Cities of Africa Houghton Mifflin Co. Little, Brown & Co.

1953 Han Suyin 1961 E.R. Braithwaite A Many-Splendored Thing To Sir, With Love Little, Brown & Co. Prentice-Hall Publishers & Co. Farley Mowat Louis B. Lomax People of the Deer The Reluctant African Little, Brown & Co. Harper & Brothers

1954 Vernon Barlett 1962 Gina Allen Struggle for Africa The Forbidden Man Charles Scribner & Sons Chilton Langston Hughes Dwight L. Dumond Simple Takes a Wife Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America Simon & Schuster University of Michigan Press John Howard Griffin 1968 Raul Hilberg Black Like Me The Destruction of the European Jews Houghton Mifflin Co. Quadrangle Norman Cohn 1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky Mankind Evolving: The Evolution Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the of the Human Species Jewish World-Conspiracy and Yale University Press “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” Harper & Row 1964 Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan Erich Kahler Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City The Jews Among the Nations M.I.T. Press & Harvard University Press Ungar Harold R. Isaacs Robert Coles The New World of Negro Americans Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear John Day Co. Little, Brown & Co. Bernhard E. Olson 1969 Gwendolyn Brooks Faith and Prejudice In the Mecca Yale University Press Harper & Row E. Earl Baughman and W. Grant Dahlstrom 1965 James W. Silver Mississippi: The Closed Society Negro and White Children: A Psychological Harcourt Brace & World Study in the Rural South Academic Press Milton M. Gordon Stuart Levine and Nancy O. Lurie, eds. Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins The American Indian Today Oxford University Press Everett/Edwards James M. McPherson Leonard Dinnerstein The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the The Leo Frank Case Columbia University Press Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction Princeton University Press 1970 Florestan Fernandes Abram L. Sachar The Negro in Brazilian Society A History of the Jews Columbia University Press Alfred A. Knopf Vine Deloria Jr. 1966 Claude Brown Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto Macmillan Publishing Co. Manchild in the Promised Land Macmillan Publishing Co. Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis Malcolm X with Alex Haley The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the The Autobiography of Malcolm X Japanese-Americans During World War II Grove Press Macmillan Publishing Co. Amram Scheinfeld Dan T. Carter Your Heredity and Environment Scottsboro J.B. Lippincott Louisiana State University Press H.C. Baldry 1971 Carleton Mabee The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists Cambridge University Press From 1830 Through the Civil War Macmillan Publishing Co. 1967 Oscar Lewis Robert W. July La Vida Random House A History of the African People Charles Scribner & Sons David Brion Davis Anthony F. C. Wallace The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Cornell University Press The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca Alfred A. Knopf Stan Steiner 1976 Lucy S. Dawidowicz La Raza: The Mexican Americans The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945 Harper & Row Holt, Rinehart & Winston Raphael Patai and Jennifer P. Wing 1972 Naboth Makgatle The Autobiography of an Unknown South African The Myth of the Jewish Race University of California Charles Scribner & Sons John S. Haller Jr. Thomas Kiernan Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes The Arabs Little, Brown & Co. of Racial Inferiority, 1859–1900 University of Illinois Press 1977 Richard Kluger George M. Fredrickson Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on of Education and Black America’s Struggle Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914 for Equality Harper & Row Alfred A. Knopf David Loye Michi Weglyn The Healing of a Nation Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s W.W. Norton & Co. Concentration Camps Donald L. Robinson William Morrow & Co. Slavery in the Structure of 1978 Maxine Hong Kingston American Politics / 1765–1820 The Woman Warrior Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Alfred A. Knopf 1973 Pat Conroy Allan Chase The Water is Wide The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs Houghton Mifflin & Co. of the New Scientific Racism Betty Fladeland Alfred A. Knopf Men & Brothers: Anglo-American 1979 Phillip V. Tobias, ed. Antislavery Cooperation The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders University of Illinois Press of Southern Africa Lee Rainwater Human & Rousseau Behind Ghetto Walls Aldine Publishing Co. 1980 Urie Bronfenbrenner The Ecology of Human Development 1974 Charles Duguid Harvard University Press Doctor and the Aborigines Richard Borshay Lee Rigby Limited The Kung San: Men, Women and Michel Fabre Work in a Foraging Society The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright Cambridge University Press William Morrow & Co. 1981 Carol Beckwith and Tepilit Ole Saitoti Albie Sachs Maasai Justice in South Africa Harry N. Abrams University of California Press Jamake Highwater Louis Snyder Song From the Earth The Dreyfus Case Little, Brown & Co. Rutgers University Press 1982 Geoffrey G. Field 1975 Leon Poliakov Evangelist of Race The Aryan Myth Columbia University Press Basic Books Peter John Powell Eugene D. Genovese People of the Sacred Mountain Roll, Jordan, Roll Harper & Row Pantheon Books 1983 Wole Soyinka 1989 Henry Louis Gates Jr. Ake: The Years of Childhood The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Random House Black Women Writers (30 volumes) Richard Rodriguez Oxford University Press Hunger of Memory Peter Sutton David R. Godine Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia George Braziller 1984 Jose Alcina Franch Taylor Branch Pre-Columbian Art Harry N. Abrams Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 Humbert S. Nelli Simon & Schuster From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans Oxford University Press George Lipsitz A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry 1985 Breyten Breytenbach and the Culture of Opposition Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel Temple University Press Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1990 Dolores Kendrick David S. Wyman The Women of Plums: Poems in The Abandonment of the Jews the Voices of Slave Women Pantheon Books William Morrow & Co. Hugh Honour 1986 James North Freedom Rising: Life Under Apartheid Through The Image of the Black in Western Art From the Eyes of an American on a Four-Year the American Revolution to World War I, Vol. 4, Clandestine Journey Through Southern Africa Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Macmillan Publishing Co. Black Models and White Myths Menil Foundation in association with Barton Wright and Clifford Bahnimptewa Harvard University Press Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Documentary Northland Press 1991 Forrest G. Wood Donald Alexander Downs The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and Race in America From the Colonial Era and the First Amendment to the Twentieth Century Notre Dame University Press Alfred A. Knopf Walter A. Jackson Gail Sheehy 1987 Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Spirit of Survival Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 William Morrow & Co. University of North Carolina Press Arnold Rampersad Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher The Life of Langston Hughes African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures Oxford University Press of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa Harry N. Abrams 1988 Toni Morrison Beloved 1992 Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh Alfred A. Knopf The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Nadine Gordimer Gender and Inequality A Sport of Nature Southern Illinois University Press Alfred A. Knopf Melissa Faye Greene Abigail M. Thernstrom Praying for Sheetrock Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action Addison-Wesley and Minority Voting Rights Marilyn Nelson Waniek Harvard University Press The Homeplace Walter F. Morris Jr. and Jeffrey Jay Foxx Louisiana State University Press Living Maya Harry N. Abrams Peter Hayes, ed. 1999 Russell Banks Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning Cloudsplitter of the Holocaust in a Changing World HarperCollins Northwestern University Press Congressman John Lewis 1993 Sandra Cisneros Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement Simon & Schuster Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories Random House 2000 Chang-rae Lee Kwame Anthony Appiah A Gesture Life In My Father’s House Riverhead Books Oxford University Press Edward W. Said Marija Gimbutas Out of Place The Civilization of the Goddess Alfred A. Knopf Harper San Francisco 2001 David Levering Lewis 1994 David Levering Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919 the American Century, 1919–1963 Henry Holt and Co. Henry Holt and Co. Judith Ortiz Cofer F.X. Toole The Latin Deli Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner The University of Georgia Press Ecco Press/HarperCollins Ronald Takaki 2002 Quincy Jones A Different Mirror Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones Little, Brown & Co. Doubleday 1995 Reginald Gibbons Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Sweetbitter Vernon Can Read Broken Moon Press Public Affairs Brent Staples Colson Whitehead Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White John Henry Days Pantheon Books Anchor Books William H. Tucker 2003 Stephen L. Carter The Science and Politics of Racial Research The Emperor of Ocean Park University of Illinois Press Alfred A. Knopf 1996 Madison Smartt Bell Samantha Power All Souls’ Rising A Problem From Hell: America and Pantheon the Age of Genocide Jonathan Kozol New Republic/Basic Books Amazing Grace Reetika Vazirani Crown Publishers World Hotel Copper Canyon Press 1997 Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of My Mother 2004 Ira Berlin Farrar, Strauss & Giroux Generations of Captivity: A History James McBride of African-American Slaves Harvard University Press The Color of Water Putnam Edward P. Jones The Known World 1998 Toi Derricote Amistad Press/HarperCollins The Black Notebooks W.W. Norton & Co. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, Walter Mosley and Coming of Age in the Bronx Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Scribner W.W. Norton & Co. 2005 Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker Alfred A. Knopf A. Van Jordan M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A W.W. Norton & Co. Geoffrey C. Ward Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Alfred A. Knopf

2006 Jill Lepore New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Special Landmark Achievement Award Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan Alfred A. Knopf This award was given on the 40th anniversary of the publication of Invisible Man. Zadie Smith On Beauty 1992 Ralph Ellison Penguin Press Random House, 1952

2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Alfred A. Knopf In recent years, the book awards jury has given a Martha Collins Lifetime Achievement Award to individuals whose Blue Front life work has enhanced an understanding of Graywolf Press cultural diversity. Scott Reynolds Nelson Steel Drivin’ Man, The Untold Story 1996 Dorothy West, author of an American Legend Oxford University Press 1997 Albert L. Murray, musician and author

2008 Ayaan Hirsi Ali 1998 Gordon Parks, photographer and artist Infidel Free Press 1999 John Hope Franklin, historian Junot Díaz Ernest J. Gaines, author The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2000 Riverhead Books 2001 Lucille Clifton, poet Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2002 Jay Wright, poet Harcourt 2003 Adrienne Kennedy, playwright 2009 Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves 2004 Derek Walcott, poet and playwright HarperCollins Annette Gordon-Reed 2005 August Wilson, playwright The Hemingses of Monticello W.W. Norton & Co. 2006 William Demby, novelist Nam Le 2007 Taylor Branch, historian The Boat Alfred A. Knopf 2008 William Melvin Kelley, novelist

2009 Paule Marshall, novelist The Awards Jury The Cleveland Foundation An independent panel of nationally known jurors selects the Anisfield- stablished in 1914, the Cleveland Wolf winners. The current jury is chaired by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Foundation is the world’s first and includes Rita Dove, Joyce E Carol Oates, Steven Pinker and community foundation and the nation’s Simon Schama. third-largest today, with assets of

$1.6 billion and 2008 grants of $84 million.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairperson The foundation improves the lives of Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Greater Clevelanders in perpetuity by Harvard University

building community endowment,

Rita Dove Commonwealth Professor addressing needs through grantmaking, of English University of Virginia and providing leadership on vital issues.

Currently the foundation proactively

Joyce Carol Oates Roger S. Berlind ‘52 directs two-thirds of its flexible grant Professor in the Humanities Princeton University dollars to the community’s greatest needs:

economic transformation (including

Steven Pinker, Ph.D. Johnstone Family Professor advanced energy and globalization), of Psychology Harvard University public school improvement, early child

and youth development, neighborhoods Simon Schama, Ph.D. University Professor of History and housing, and arts advancement. and Art History Columbia University

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The Cleveland Foundation administers the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.