Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

Check all the winners of Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
Year Winner Winner Work
2010 Oprah Winfrey Lifetime Achievement
2010 Elizabeth Alexander Lifetime Achievement in Poetry
2010 Kamila Shamsie Burnt Shadows
2010 William Julius Wilson Lifetime Achievement in Nonfiction
2009 Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves
2009 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
2009 Nam Le The Boat
2009 Paule Marshall Lifetime Achevement Award
2008 Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist
2008 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2008 Ayaan Hirsi Ali 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)
2008 William Melvin Kelley Lifetime Achievement Award
2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Half of a Yellow Sun
2007 Taylor Branch At Canaan's Edge
2007 Martha Collins Blue Front
2007 Scott Reynolds Nelson Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry
2006 Zadie Smith On Beauty
2006 Jill Lepore New York Burning
2006 William Demby Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 August Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award
2005 Geoffrey Ward Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005 A. Van Jordan M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A
2005 Edwidge Danticat The Dew Breaker
2004 Derek Walcott Lifetime Achievement Award
2004 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family
2004 Edward P. Jones The Known World
2004 Ira Berlin Generations of captivity
2003 Reetika Vazirani World Hotel
2003 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
2003 Adrienne Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award
2003 Stephen L. Carter The Emperor of Ocean Park
2002 Jay Wright Lifetime Achievement Award
2002 Colson Whitehead John Henry Days
2002 Vernon Jordan Jr. Vernon Can Read! : A Memoir
Annette Gordon-Reed Vernon Can Read! : A Memoir
2002 Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
2001 F.X. Toole Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
2001 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
2001 Lucille Clifton Lifetime Achievement Award
2000 Edward Said Out of Place: A Memoir
2000 Chang-Rae Lee A Gesture Life: A Novel
2000 Ernest J. Gaines Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 John Lewis Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
Mike D'Orso Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
1999 John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award
1999 Russell Banks Cloudsplitter: A Novel
1998 Gordon Parks Lifetime Achievement Award
1998 Walter Mosley Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
1998 Toi Derricotte The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
1997 Albert Murray Lifetime Achievement Award
1997 James McBride The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
(10th Anniversary Edition)
1997 Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of my Mother
1996 Dorothy West Lifetime Achievement Award
1996 Madison Smartt Bell All Souls' Rising
1996 Jonathan Kozol Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
1995 William H. Tucker The Science and Politics of Racial Research
1995 Brent Staples Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
1995 Reginald Gibbons Sweetbitter
1994 David Levering Lewis W.E.B. Dubois: A Reader
1994 Judith Ortiz Cofer The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
1993 Marija Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess: The World of Old Europe
1993 Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
1993 Kwame Anthony Appiah In my Father's house : Africa in the philosophy of culture
1992 Marilyn Nelson The Homeplace
1992 Elaine Mensh The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality
Harry Mensh The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality
1992 Peter Hayes Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World Vol. I
1992 Melissa Fay Greene Praying For Sheetrock
1992 Ralph Ellison Invisible Man
( Special Achievement Award)
1991 Carol Beckwith African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Graham Hancock African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Angela Fisher African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
1991 Forrest G. Wood The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America
1991 Walter A. Jackson Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987
1990 Dolores Kendrick The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women
1990 Hugh Honour The Image of the Black in Western Art
1989 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963
1989 Peter Sutton Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
1989 George Lipsitz A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
1989 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Collected Black Women's Narratives
1988 Toni Morrison Beloved
1988 Nadine Gordimer A Sport of Nature
1988 Abigail Thernstrom Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
1988 Walter F. Morris Jr. Living Maya
1987 Gail Sheehy Spirit of Survival
1987 Arnold Rampersad The Life of Langston Hughes
1986 Donald Downs Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment
1986 Barton Wright Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary
1986 James North Freedom Rising
1985 David Wyman The Abandonment of The Jews
1985 Breyten Breytenbach Mouroir
1984 Humbert Nelli From immigrants to ethnics
1984 Jose Alcina Franch Pre-Columbian Art
1983 Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
1983 Wole Soyinka Ake
1982 Peter John Powell People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879
1982 Geoffrey G. Field Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain
1981 Jamake Highwater Song from the Earth: American Indian Painting
1980 Richard Borshay Lee The !Kung San
1980 Urie Bronfenbrenner The ecology of human development
1980 Tepilit Ole Saitoti Maasai
1979 Phillip V. Tobias The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa
1978 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior
1978 Allan Chase Legacy of Malthus
1977 Richard Kluger Simple justice
1977 Jamaica Kincaid The Autobiography of my Mother
1977 Michi Weglyn Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
1976 Thomas Kiernan Arabs
1976 Lucy Dawidowicz The War Against the Jews
1976 Raphael Patai The myth of the Jewish race
1975 Eugene Genovese Roll, Jordan, Roll
1975 Leon Poliakov Aryan myth
1974 Louis Leo Snyder The Dreyfus case
1974 Michel Faber The unfinished quest of Richard Wright
1974 Albie Sachs Justice in South Africa
1974 Charles Duguid Doctor and the aborigines
1973 Pat Conroy The Water Is Wide
1973 Lee Rainwater Behind Ghetto Walls
1973 Betty Fladeland Men and brothers
1972 George M. Fredrickson The Black image in the white mind
1972 Donald L. Robinson Slavery in the structure of American politics, 1765-1820
1972 John Haller Outcasts from evolution
1972 David Loye The healing of a nation
1972 Naboth Mokgatle The Autobiography of an unknown South African
1971 Stan Steiner La raza
1971 Robert July A history of the African people
1971 Anthony F. C. Wallace The death and rebirth of the Seneca
1971 Carleton Mabee Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War
1970 Vine Deloria, Jr. Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
1970 Dan T. Carter Scottsboro
1970 Florestan Fernandes The Negro in Brazilian Society
1970 Audrie Girdner The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II
1969 Leonard Dinnerstein The Leo Frank Case
1969 Stuart Levine The American Indian today
Nancy Lurie The American Indian today
1969 Gwendolyn Brooks In the Mecca; Poems
1969 E. Earl Baughman Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
W. Grant Dahlstrom Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
1968 Robert Coles Children of Crisis
1968 Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews
1968 Erich Kahler
1968 Norman Cohn Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1967 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
1967 Oscar Lewis La Vida
1966 Claude Brown Manchild in the Promised Land
1966 Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1966 H. Baldry The unity of mankind in Greek thought
1966 Amram Scheinfeld Your Heredity and Environment
1965 James M. McPherson The struggle for equality
1965 Abram L. Sachar A History of the Jews
1965 Milton Gordon Assimilation in American Life: The role of race, religion and national origins
1965 James Silver Mississippi: The Closed Society
1964 Harold Isaacs New world of Negro Americans
1964 Nathan Glazer Beyond the melting pot
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Beyond the melting pot
1964 Bernard E. Olson Faith and Prejudice
1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky Mankind evolving
1962 John Howard Griffin Black Like Me
1962 Dwight L. Dumond Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America
1962 Gina Allen The Forbidden Man
1961 E. R. Braithwaite To Sir, with Love
1961 Louis Lomax The Reluctant African
1960 Basil Davidson Lost cities of Africa
1960 John Haynes Holmes I speak for myself
1959 Martin Luther King, Jr. Stride toward freedom; the Montgomery story
1959 George Simpson Racial and cultural minorities
John Milton Yinger Racial and cultural minorities
1958 South African Institute of Race Relations Handbook on Race Relations
1958 Jessie B. Sams White Mother
1957 Gilberto Freyre Masters and the slaves
1957 Trevor Huddleston Naught for your comfort
1956 George W Shepherd They wait in darkness
1956 John P. Dean Manual of Intergroup Relations
Alex Rosen Manual of Intergroup Relations
1955 Lyle Saunders Cultural Differences and Medical Care
1955 Oden Meeker Report on Africa
1954 Vernon Bartlett Struggle for Africa
1954 Langston Hughes Simple takes a wife
1953 Han Suyin A Many-Splendoured Thing
1953 Farley Mowat People of the Deer
1952 Laurens van der Post Venture to the Interior
1952 Brewton Berry Race relations
1951 John Hersey
1951 Henry Gibbs Twilight in South Africa
1950 Shirley Graham Du Bois Your Most Humble Servant
1950 S. Andhil Fineberg Punishment without Crime
1949 J.C. Furnas Anatomy of Paradise
1949 Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
1948 Kenneth R Philp John Collier's crusade for Indian reform, 1920-1954
1948 Worth Tuttle Hedden The other room
1947 Sholem Asch Prophet
1947 Pauline R. Kibbe Latin Americans in Texas
1946 St. Clair Drake Black metropolis
1946 Wallace Stegner One nation
1945 Gwethalyn Graham Earth and High Heaven
1945 Kenneth Clark Dark ghetto: dilemmas of social power
1944 Ronald Takaki A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
1944 Maurice Samuel The World of Sholom Aleichem
1944 Roi Ottley New World A-Coming
1943 Zora Neale Hurston Dust tracks on a road
1942 Leopold Infeld Quest
1942 James Leyburn Haïtian people
1941 Louis Adamic From many lands
1940 E. Franklin Frazier Negro family in the United States
1937 Julian Huxley We Europeans
1936 Harold Foote Gosnell Negro politicians