Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Oprah Winfrey

(Lifetime Achievement)

Elizabeth Alexander

(Lifetime Achievement in Poetry)

Kamila Shamsie

Honored for : Burnt Shadows

William Julius Wilson

(Lifetime Achievement in Nonfiction)

Louise Erdrich

Honored for : The Plague of Doves

Annette Gordon-Reed

Honored for : The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

Nam Le

Honored for : The Boat

Paule Marshall

(Lifetime Achevement Award)

Mohsin Hamid

Honored for : The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Junot Díaz

Honored for : The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Honored for : Infidel

(Due to security concerns because of the death threats against her, the award was not listed beforehand, but was a surprise announcement at the ceremony)

William Melvin Kelley

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Honored for : Half of a Yellow Sun

Taylor Branch

Honored for : At Canaan's Edge

Martha Collins

Honored for : Blue Front

Scott Reynolds Nelson

Honored for : Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry

Zadie Smith

Honored for : On Beauty

Jill Lepore

Honored for : New York Burning

William Demby

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

August Wilson

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Geoffrey Ward

Honored for : Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

A. Van Jordan

Honored for : M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A

Edwidge Danticat

Honored for : The Dew Breaker

Derek Walcott

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Honored for : Random Family

Edward P. Jones

Honored for : The Known World

Ira Berlin

Honored for : Generations of captivity

Reetika Vazirani

Honored for : World Hotel

Samantha Power

Honored for : A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Adrienne Kennedy

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Stephen L. Carter

Honored for : The Emperor of Ocean Park

Jay Wright

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Colson Whitehead

Honored for : John Henry Days

Vernon Jordan Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed

Honored for : Vernon Can Read! : A Memoir

Quincy Jones

Honored for : Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones

F.X. Toole

Honored for : Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner

David Levering Lewis

Honored for : W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century

Lucille Clifton

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Edward Said

Honored for : Out of Place: A Memoir

Chang-Rae Lee

Honored for : A Gesture Life: A Novel

Ernest J. Gaines

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

John Lewis, Mike D'Orso

Honored for : Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

John Hope Franklin

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Russell Banks

Honored for : Cloudsplitter: A Novel

Gordon Parks

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Walter Mosley

Honored for : Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

Toi Derricotte

Honored for : The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey

Albert Murray

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

James McBride

Honored for : The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

(10th Anniversary Edition)

Jamaica Kincaid

Honored for : The Autobiography of my Mother

Dorothy West

(Lifetime Achievement Award)

Madison Smartt Bell

Honored for : All Souls' Rising

Jonathan Kozol

Honored for : Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

William H. Tucker

Honored for : The Science and Politics of Racial Research

Brent Staples

Honored for : Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White

Reginald Gibbons

Honored for : Sweetbitter

David Levering Lewis

Honored for : W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Honored for : The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry

Marija Gimbutas

Honored for : The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe

Sandra Cisneros

Honored for : Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Honored for : In my Father's house : Africa in the philosophy of culture

Marilyn Nelson

Honored for : The Homeplace

Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh

Honored for : The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality

Peter Hayes

Honored for : Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World Vol. I

Melissa Fay Greene

Honored for : Praying For Sheetrock

Ralph Ellison

Honored for : Invisible Man

( Special Achievement Award)

Carol Beckwith, Graham Hancock, Angela Fisher

Honored for : African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa

Forrest G. Wood

Honored for : The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America

Walter A. Jackson

Honored for : Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987

Dolores Kendrick

Honored for : The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women

Hugh Honour

Honored for : The Image of the Black in Western Art

Taylor Branch

Honored for : Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963

Peter Sutton

Honored for : Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia

George Lipsitz

Honored for : A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Honored for : Collected Black Women's Narratives

Toni Morrison

Honored for : Beloved

Nadine Gordimer

Honored for : A Sport of Nature

Abigail Thernstrom

Honored for : Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights

Walter F. Morris Jr.

Honored for : Living Maya

Gail Sheehy

Honored for : Spirit of Survival

Arnold Rampersad

Honored for : The Life of Langston Hughes

Donald Downs

Honored for : Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment

Barton Wright

Honored for : Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary

James North

Honored for : Freedom Rising

David Wyman

Honored for : The Abandonment of The Jews

Breyten Breytenbach

Honored for : Mouroir

Humbert Nelli

Honored for : From immigrants to ethnics

Jose Alcina Franch

Honored for : Pre-Columbian Art

Richard Rodriguez

Honored for : Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

Wole Soyinka

Honored for : Ake

Peter John Powell

Honored for : People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879

Geoffrey G. Field

Honored for : Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Jamake Highwater

Honored for : Song from the Earth: American Indian Painting

Richard Borshay Lee

Honored for : The !Kung San

Urie Bronfenbrenner

Honored for : The ecology of human development

Tepilit Ole Saitoti

Honored for : Maasai

Phillip V. Tobias

Honored for : The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa

Maxine Hong Kingston

Honored for : The Woman Warrior

Allan Chase

Honored for : Legacy of Malthus

Richard Kluger

Honored for : Simple justice

Jamaica Kincaid

Honored for : The Autobiography of my Mother

Michi Weglyn

Honored for : Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps

Thomas Kiernan

Honored for : Arabs

Lucy Dawidowicz

Honored for : The War Against the Jews

Raphael Patai

Honored for : The myth of the Jewish race

Eugene Genovese

Honored for : Roll, Jordan, Roll

Leon Poliakov

Honored for : Aryan myth

Louis Leo Snyder

Honored for : The Dreyfus case

Michel Faber

Honored for : The unfinished quest of Richard Wright

Albie Sachs

Honored for : Justice in South Africa

Charles Duguid

Honored for : Doctor and the aborigines

Pat Conroy

Honored for : The Water Is Wide

Lee Rainwater

Honored for : Behind Ghetto Walls

Betty Fladeland

Honored for : Men and brothers

George M. Fredrickson

Honored for : The Black image in the white mind

Donald L. Robinson

Honored for : Slavery in the structure of American politics, 1765-1820

John Haller

Honored for : Outcasts from evolution

David Loye

Honored for : The healing of a nation

Naboth Mokgatle

Honored for : The Autobiography of an unknown South African

Stan Steiner

Honored for : La raza

Robert July

Honored for : A history of the African people

Anthony F. C. Wallace

Honored for : The death and rebirth of the Seneca

Carleton Mabee

Honored for : Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War

Vine Deloria, Jr.

Honored for : Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

Dan T. Carter

Honored for : Scottsboro

Florestan Fernandes

Honored for : The Negro in Brazilian Society

Audrie Girdner

Honored for : The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II

Leonard Dinnerstein

Honored for : The Leo Frank Case

Stuart Levine, Nancy Lurie

Honored for : The American Indian today

Gwendolyn Brooks

Honored for : In the Mecca; Poems

E. Earl Baughman, W. Grant Dahlstrom

Honored for : Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South

Robert Coles

Honored for : Children of Crisis

Raul Hilberg

Honored for : The Destruction of the European Jews

Erich Kahler

Norman Cohn

Honored for : Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

David Brion Davis

Honored for : The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture

Oscar Lewis

Honored for : La Vida

Claude Brown

Honored for : Manchild in the Promised Land

Alex Haley

Honored for : The Autobiography of Malcolm X

H. Baldry

Honored for : The unity of mankind in Greek thought

Amram Scheinfeld

Honored for : Your Heredity and Environment

James M. McPherson

Honored for : The struggle for equality

Abram L. Sachar

Honored for : A History of the Jews

Milton Gordon

Honored for : Assimilation in American Life: The role of race, religion and national origins

James Silver

Honored for : Mississippi: The Closed Society

Harold Isaacs

Honored for : New world of Negro Americans

Nathan Glazer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Honored for : Beyond the melting pot

Bernard E. Olson

Honored for : Faith and Prejudice

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Honored for : Mankind evolving

John Howard Griffin

Honored for : Black Like Me

Dwight L. Dumond

Honored for : Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America

Gina Allen

Honored for : The Forbidden Man

E. R. Braithwaite

Honored for : To Sir, with Love

Louis Lomax

Honored for : The Reluctant African

Basil Davidson

Honored for : Lost cities of Africa

John Haynes Holmes

Honored for : I speak for myself

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Honored for : Stride toward freedom; the Montgomery story

George Simpson, John Milton Yinger

Honored for : Racial and cultural minorities

South African Institute of Race Relations

Honored for : Handbook on Race Relations

Jessie B. Sams

Honored for : White Mother

Gilberto Freyre

Honored for : Masters and the slaves

Trevor Huddleston

Honored for : Naught for your comfort

George W Shepherd

Honored for : They wait in darkness

John P. Dean, Alex Rosen

Honored for : Manual of Intergroup Relations

Lyle Saunders

Honored for : Cultural Differences and Medical Care

Oden Meeker

Honored for : Report on Africa

Vernon Bartlett

Honored for : Struggle for Africa

Langston Hughes

Honored for : Simple takes a wife

Han Suyin

Honored for : A Many-Splendoured Thing

Farley Mowat

Honored for : People of the Deer

Laurens van der Post

Honored for : Venture to the Interior

Brewton Berry

Honored for : Race relations

John Hersey

Henry Gibbs

Honored for : Twilight in South Africa

Shirley Graham Du Bois

Honored for : Your Most Humble Servant

S. Andhil Fineberg

Honored for : Punishment without Crime

J.C. Furnas

Honored for : Anatomy of Paradise

Alan Paton

Honored for : Cry, the Beloved Country

Kenneth R Philp

Honored for : John Collier's crusade for Indian reform, 1920-1954

Worth Tuttle Hedden

Honored for : The other room

Sholem Asch

Honored for : Prophet

Pauline R. Kibbe

Honored for : Latin Americans in Texas

St. Clair Drake

Honored for : Black metropolis

Wallace Stegner

Honored for : One nation

Gwethalyn Graham

Honored for : Earth and High Heaven

Kenneth Clark

Honored for : Dark ghetto: dilemmas of social power

Ronald Takaki

Honored for : A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Maurice Samuel

Honored for : The World of Sholom Aleichem

Roi Ottley

Honored for : New World A-Coming

Zora Neale Hurston

Honored for : Dust tracks on a road

Leopold Infeld

Honored for : Quest

James Leyburn

Honored for : Haïtian people

Louis Adamic

Honored for : From many lands

E. Franklin Frazier

Honored for : Negro family in the United States

Julian Huxley

Honored for : We Europeans

Harold Foote Gosnell

Honored for : Negro politicians