Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are United States
literary awards dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism
and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture
. Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet
and philanthropist
Edith Anisfield Wolf and originally administered by the Saturday Review, the awards have been administered by the Cleveland Foundation
since 1963.
Three or four book awards, and sometimes a lifetime achievement award, are given out each year. Notable past winners include Zora Neale Hurston
(1943), Langston Hughes
(1954), Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1959), Maxine Hong Kingston
(1978), Wole Soyinka
(1983), Nadine Gordimer
(1988), Toni Morrison
(1988), Ralph Ellison
(1992), Edward Said
(2000), and Derek Walcott
(2004).
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
literary awards dedicated to honoring written works that make important contributions to the understanding of racism
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
and the appreciation of the rich diversity of human culture
Culture
Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
. Established in 1935 by Cleveland poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and philanthropist
Philanthropist
A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; that is, someone who donates his or her time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes...
Edith Anisfield Wolf and originally administered by the Saturday Review, the awards have been administered by the Cleveland Foundation
Cleveland Foundation
Established in 1914, the Cleveland Foundation was the world's first community foundation. , it is America's second-largest community foundation, with assets of $1.62 billion and annual grants of around $84 million....
since 1963.
Three or four book awards, and sometimes a lifetime achievement award, are given out each year. Notable past winners include Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance...
(1943), Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
(1954), Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for being an iconic figure in the advancement of civil rights in the United States and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the...
(1959), Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
(1978), Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
(1983), Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
(1988), Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
(1988), Ralph Ellison
Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953...
(1992), Edward Said
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism...
(2000), and Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott
Derek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
(2004).
Winners
- 2011 - Nicole KraussNicole KraussNicole Krauss is an American author best known for her novels Man Walks Into a Room , The History of Love and, most recently, Great House...
, Great HouseGreat House (novel)Great House is the third novel by the American writer Nicole Krauss, published on October 12, 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company. Early versions of the first chapter were published in Harper's , Best American Short Stories 2008, and The New Yorker... - 2011 - Mary Helen StefaniakMary Helen StefaniakMary Helen Stefaniak is an American writer. She comes from the family of Croats from Hungary, that originates from Novo Selo in Hungary, being thus a part of the indigenous Croatian minority in that country...
, The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia - 2011 - David Eltis/David RichardsonDavid RichardsonDavid John Richardson in Johannesburg played 42 Tests and 122 One Day Internationals for South Africa. He also represented Eastern Province in various domestic competitions....
, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade - 2011 - Isabel WilkersonIsabel WilkersonIsabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.-Biography:...
, The Warmth of Other SunsThe Warmth of Other SunsThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is a history book by African-American author Isabel Wilkerson. It is about the The Great Migration and the Second Great Migration, the movement of blacks out of the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast and West... - 2011 - John Edgar WidemanJohn Edgar WidemanJohn Edgar Wideman is an American writer, professor at Brown University, and sits on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.-Early life:...
, Lifetime Achievement - 2010 – Kamila ShamsieKamila ShamsieKamila Shamsie is a Pakistani novelist who writes in the English language. She was brought up in Karachi and attended Karachi Grammar School....
for Burnt Shadows - 2010 – Elizabeth AlexanderElizabeth Alexander (poet)Elizabeth Alexander is an American poet, essayist, playwright, and a university professor.-Early life:Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City and grew up in Washington D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman...
, Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry - 2010 – William Julius WilsonWilliam Julius WilsonWilliam Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
, Lifetime Achievement Award in Nonfiction - 2010 – Oprah WinfreyOprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist. Winfrey is best known for her self-titled, multi-award-winning talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2009 – Louise ErdrichLouise ErdrichKaren Louise Erdrich, known as Louise Erdrich, is an author of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American heritage. She is widely acclaimed as one of the most significant writers of the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln has called the Native American Renaissance...
for The Plague of Doves - 2009 – Nam LeNam LeNam Thien Le is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Huntington Beach, California....
for The Boat - 2009 – Annette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe...
for The Hemingses of Monticello - 2009 – Paule MarshallPaule MarshallPaule Marshall is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College and Hunter College . Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2008 - Ayaan Hirsi AliAyaan Hirsi AliAyaan Hirsi Magan Ali is a Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer, politician who strongly opposes circumcision and female genital cutting. She is the daughter of the Somali politician and opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse and is a founder of the women's rights organisation the AHA...
for InfidelInfidel (book)Infidel , a New York Times bestseller, is the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, originally written in English together with an English-language ghost-writer. Because of publisher agreements the book first appeared in a Dutch translation as Mijn Vrijheid , released on September 29, 2006...
. - 2008 – Junot DiazJunot DíazJunot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience...
for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a best-selling novel written by Dominican author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised and deals explicitly with his ancestral homeland's experience under dictator Rafael Trujillo... - 2008 – Mohsin HamidMohsin HamidMohsin Hamid is a Pakistani author best known for his novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist .- Biography :...
for The Reluctant FundamentalistThe Reluctant FundamentalistThe Reluctant Fundamentalist is a novel by Mohsin Hamid, published in 2007.The novel uses the technique of a frame story, which takes place during the course of a single evening in an outdoor Lahore cafe, where a bearded Pakistani man called Changez tells a nervous American stranger about his love... - 2008 – William Melvin KelleyWilliam Melvin KelleyWilliam Melvin Kelley , is a prominent African American novelist and short-story writer. He is known for the novel A Different Drummer. He has won, among other things, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2008 for Lifetime Achievement...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2007 – Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Ngozi AdichieChimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...
for Half of a Yellow SunHalf of a Yellow SunHalf of a Yellow Sun is a novel by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, it tells the story of two sisters, Olanna and Kainene, during the Biafran War.-Plot:... - 2007 – Taylor BranchTaylor BranchTaylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement...
for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 - 2007 – Martha CollinsMartha Collins (poet)-Life:She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.She is editor of Field magazine...
for Blue Front - 2007 – Scott Reynolds NelsonScott Reynolds NelsonScott Reynolds Nelson is the Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. He is a historian of the American Civil War and the Gilded Age...
for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend - 2006 – Zadie SmithZadie SmithZadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...
for On BeautyOn BeautyOn Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry . The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States... - 2006 – Jill LeporeJill LeporeJill Lepore is a professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard's History and Literature Program. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her essays and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The American Scholar, and in...
for New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan - 2006 – William Demby, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2005 – August WilsonAugust WilsonAugust Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2005 – Geoffrey C. Ward for Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (about boxer Jack JohnsonJack Johnson (boxer)John Arthur Johnson , nicknamed the “Galveston Giant,” was an American boxer. At the height of the Jim Crow era, Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion...
) - 2005 – A. Van JordanA. Van Jordan-Life:He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C....
for Macnolia: Poems - 2005 – Edwidge Danticat for The Dew BreakerThe Dew BreakerThe Dew Breaker is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title "comes from a Creole phrase which refers to those who break the serenity of the grass in the morning dew...
- 2004 – Derek WalcottDerek WalcottDerek Alton Walcott, OBE OCC is a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, writer and visual artist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992 and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2011 for White Egrets. His works include the Homeric epic Omeros...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2004 – Adrian Nicole LeBlancAdrian Nicole LeBlancAdrian Nicole LeBlanc is an American journalist whose works focus on the marginalized members of society: adolescents living in poverty, prostitutes, women in prison, etc. She is best known for her 2003 non-fiction book Random Family...
for Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx - 2004 – Edward P. JonesEdward P. JonesEdward Paul Jones is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel The Known World received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.-Biography:...
for The Known WorldThe Known WorldThe Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites... - 2004 – Ira BerlinIra BerlinIra Berlin is an American historian, a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, and a past President of the Organization of American Historians. Berlin is the author of such books as Many Thousands Gone and Generations of Captivity.-Biography:Berlin received his Ph.D....
for Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves - 2003 – Reetika VaziraniReetika VaziraniReetika Vazirani was an American poet and educator. On July 16, 2003, Vazirani was housesitting in the Chevy Chase, Maryland home of novelist Howard Norman and his wife, the poet, Jane Shore. There, Vazirani took the life of her two-year-old son, Jehan, and then her own.-Life:She was born in...
for World Hotel - 2003 – Samantha PowerSamantha PowerSamantha Power is an Irish American academic, governmental official and writer. She is currently a Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and runs the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights as Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs on the Staff of the National Security Council...
for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide - 2003 – Adrienne KennedyAdrienne KennedyAdrienne Kennedy is an African-American playwright and was a key figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She is best known for her first major play Funnyhouse of a Negro....
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2003 – Stephen L. CarterStephen L. CarterStephen L. Carter is an American law professor, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.-Education:...
for The Emperor of Ocean Park - 2002 – Jay WrightJay Wright (poet)Jay Wright is an African-American poet, playwright, and essayist. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he currently lives in Bradford, Vermont. Although his work is not as widely known as other American poets of his generation, it has received considerable critical acclaim...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2002 – Colson WhiteheadColson WhiteheadColson Whitehead is a New York-based novelist. He is best known as the author of the 2001 novel John Henry Days. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life:...
for John Henry DaysJohn Henry DaysJohn Henry Days is a 2001 Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novel by African American author Colson Whitehead.John Henry Days is a portrait of America... - 2002 – Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Annette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-ReedAnnette Gordon-Reed is an American historian and law professor noted for changing scholarship on Thomas Jefferson. Gordon-Reed was educated at Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School. She is Professor of Law and History at Harvard, and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe...
for Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir - 2002 – Quincy JonesQuincy JonesQuincy Delightt Jones, Jr. is an American record producer and musician. A conductor, musical arranger, film composer, television producer, and trumpeter. His career spans five decades in the entertainment industry and a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend...
for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones - 2001 – F. X. Toole for Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
- 2001 – David Levering LewisDavid Levering LewisDavid Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois...
for W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century - 2001 – Lucille CliftonLucille CliftonLucille Clifton was an American writer and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979–1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 2000 – Edward W. Said for Out of Place: A Memoir
- 2000 – Chang-Rae LeeChang-Rae LeeChang-rae Lee is a Korean American novelist and a professor of creative writing at Princeton University, where he has served as the director of Princeton's Program in Creative Writing.-Early life:...
for A Gesture LifeA Gesture LifeA Gesture Life is a novel written by Chang-Rae Lee, a South Korean author who has been living in the United States since 1965, which takes the form of a narrative of an elderly physician named Doc Hata, who deals with everyday life in a small town in the United States called Bedley Run and who... - 2000 – Ernest GainesErnest GainesErnest James Gaines is an African-American author. His works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies.His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 1999 – John LewisJohn Lewis (politician)John Robert Lewis is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1987. He was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement and chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , playing a key role in the struggle to end segregation...
, Michael D'Orso for Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement) - 1999 – John Hope FranklinJohn Hope FranklinJohn Hope Franklin was a United States historian and past president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. Franklin is best known for his work From Slavery to Freedom, first published in 1947, and...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 1999 – Russell BanksRussell BanksRussell Banks is an American writer of fiction and poetry.- Biography :Russell Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts on March 28, 1940. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in upstate New York, and has been named a New York State Author. He is also...
for CloudsplitterCloudsplitterCloudsplitter is a 1998 historical novel by Russell Banks relating the story of abolitionist John Brown.The novel is narrated as a retrospective by John Brown's son, Owen Brown, from his hermitage in the San Gabriel Mountains of California... - 1998 – Gordon ParksGordon ParksGordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 1998 – Walter MosleyWalter MosleyWalter Ellis Mosley is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los...
for Always Outnumbered, Always OutgunnedAlways Outnumbered, Always OutgunnedAlways Outnumbered, Always Outgunned is a 1997 crime novel by Walter Mosley. The book follows the trials and travails of an ex-convict Socrates Fortlow who lives in a tough Los Angeles neighbourhood and struggles to stay on the path of righteousness.... - 1998 – Toi DerricotteToi DerricotteToi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.At Wayne State University she earned a B.A. in 1965 and an M.A...
for The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey - 1997 – Albert L. Murray, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1997 – James McBrideJames McBride (writer)James McBride is an American writer and musician whose compositions have been recorded by a variety of other musicians.-Early life:McBride's father, the late Rev. Andrew D...
for The Color of WaterThe Color of WaterThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother is the autobiography of James McBride; it is also a tribute to his mother. The chapters alternate between James McBride's descriptions of his early life and first-person accounts of his mother Ruth's life, mostly taking place before her... - 1997 – Jamaica KincaidJamaica KincaidJamaica Kincaid is a Caribbean novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in the city of St. John's on the island of Antigua in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda...
for Autobiography of My Mother - 1996 – Dorothy WestDorothy WestDorothy West was a novelist and short story writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance. She is best known for her novel The Living Is Easy, about the life of an upper-class black family.-Early years:...
, Lifetime Achievement Award - 1996 – Madison Smartt BellMadison Smartt BellMadison Smartt Bell is an American novelist. He was raised Nashville, and lived in New York, and London before settling in Baltimore, Maryland....
for All Souls' Rising - 1996 – Jonathan KozolJonathan KozolJonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
for Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation - 1995 – William H. TuckerWilliam H. TuckerWilliam H. Tucker is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University and the author of several books critical of race science.Tucker received his bachelor's degree from Bates College in 1967, and his master's and doctorate from Princeton University...
for The Science and Politics of Racial Research - 1995 – Brent StaplesBrent StaplesBrent Staples is an author and editorial writer for the New York Times. His books include An American Love Story and Parallel Time: Growing up In Black and White, which won the Anisfield Wolf Book Award...
for Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White - 1995 – Reginald GibbonsReginald GibbonsReginald Gibbons is an American poet, fiction writer, translator, literary critic, artist, and Professor of English, Classics, and Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University...
for Sweetbitter: A Novel - 1994 – David Levering LewisDavid Levering LewisDavid Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W. E. B. Du Bois...
for W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader - 1994 – Judith Ortiz CoferJudith Ortiz CoferJudith Ortiz Cofer is a Puerto Rican author. Her work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and Young-adult fiction.-Early years:...
for The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry - 1993 – Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas for The Civilization of the Goddess
- 1993 – Sandra CisnerosSandra CisnerosSandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...
for Woman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesWoman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesWoman Hollering Creek and Other Stories is a book of short stories published in 1991 by San Antonio-based Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros... - 1993 – Kwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge...
for In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - 1992 – Marilyn Nelson for The Homeplace
- 1992 – Elaine Mensh, Harry Mensh for The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality
- 1992 – Peter HayesPeter HayesPeter Hayes is a contemporary sculptor now based in Bath, England, whose work is displayed in public locations including the UK, US, Canada and Belgium.- Life and works :...
for Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World - 1992 – Melissa Fay GreeneMelissa Fay GreeneMelissa Fay Greene is an American nonfiction author. A 1975 graduate of Oberlin College, Greene is the author of five books of nonfiction, a two-time National Book Award finalist, recipient of an honorary doctorate from Emory University in 2010, and a 2011 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of...
for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction - 1992 – Ralph EllisonRalph EllisonRalph Waldo Ellison was an American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer. He was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Ellison is best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953...
for Invisible Man, Special Achievement Award - 1991 – Forrest G. Wood for The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America
- 1991 – Walter A. Jackson for Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987 (about Gunnar MyrdalGunnar MyrdalKarl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish Nobel Laureate economist, sociologist, and politician. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the...
) - 1991 – Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, Graham HancockGraham HancockGraham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. Hancock specialises in unconventional theories involving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past...
for African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa - 1990 – Dolores KendrickDolores KendrickDolores Kendrick is an American poet, and Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia.Her book, The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, won the Annisfield-Wolfe Award.-Life:She is Vira I...
for The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women - 1990 – Hugh HonourHugh HonourHugh Honour is a British art historian, famous for his writings. His A World History of Art, co-authored with John Fleming, is now in its seventh edition; his Chinoiserie first set the phenomenon of chinoiserie in its European cultural context, and his overview of Neoclassicism is still "an...
for The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1 - 1989 – Peter SuttonPeter SuttonPeter Sutton FASSA is an Australian social anthropologist and linguist who has, over a period of almost 40 years , significantly contributed to: recording Australian Aboriginal languages; promoting Australian Aboriginal art; mapping Australian Aboriginal cultural landscapes; and increasing...
for Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia - 1989 – George LipsitzGeorge LipsitzGeorge Lipsitz is an American Studies Scholar and a Professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness. He is a lead scholar in social movements, urban culture, inequality, the politics of popular...
for Life In The Struggle - 1989 – Henry Louis Gates Jr. for Collected Black Women's Narratives
- 1989 – Taylor BranchTaylor BranchTaylor Branch is an American author and historian best known for his award-winning trilogy of books chronicling the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and some of the history of the American civil rights movement...
for Parting the Waters America in the King Years - 1988 – Abigail M. Thernstrom for Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
- 1988 – Toni MorrisonToni MorrisonToni Morrison is a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. Among her best known novels are The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon and Beloved...
for BelovedBeloved (novel)Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison, published in 1987. Set in 1873 just after the American Civil War , it is based on the story of the African-American slave, Margaret Garner, who escaped slavery in 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio, a free state... - 1988 – Walter F. Morris, Jr.Walter F. Morris, Jr.-Life:He is coordinator of Mexican initiatives the NGO Aid to Artisans, based in Hartford, Connecticut.He is a member of the Board of the Pellizzi Collection of Textiles of Chiapas.He is a research associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota....
for Living Maya - 1988 – Nadine GordimerNadine GordimerNadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
for A Sport of NatureA Sport of NatureA Sport of Nature is a 1987 novel by 1991 Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.-Plot summary:While still a secondary school student, Kim Capran decides to re-name herself "Hillela". Hillela joins the ANC, she marries a black man from the congress and has a child with him.... - 1987 – Gail SheehyGail SheehyGail Sheehy is an American writer and lecturer, most notable for her books on life and the life cycle. She is also a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine....
for Spirit of Survival - 1987 – Arnold RampersadArnold RampersadArnold Rampersad is a biographer and literary critic. The first volume of his Life Of Langston Hughes was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He was born in Trinidad and Tobago....
for The Life of Langston Hughes - 1986 – Northland Editors for Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary
- 1986 – James North for Freedom Rising
- 1986 – Donald Alexander Downs for Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment
- 1985 – David S. Wyman for The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
- 1985 – Breyten BreytenbachBreyten BreytenbachBreyten Breytenbach is a South African writer and painter with French citizenship.-Biography:Breyten Breytenbach was born in Bonnievale, Western Cape, approximately 180 km from Cape Town and 100 km from the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas...
for Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel - 1984 – Humbert S. Nelli for From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans
- 1984 – Jose Alcina Franch for Pre-Columbian Art
- 1983 – Wole SoyinkaWole SoyinkaAkinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
for Aké: The Years of Childhood - 1983 – Richard RodriguezRichard RodriguezRichard Rodriguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.- Early life :...
for Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - 1982 – Peter J. Powell for People of the Sacred Mountain
- 1982 – Geoffrey G. Field for Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain
- 1981 – Jamake HighwaterJamake HighwaterJamake Highwater was an US writer and journalist who claimed Native American ancestry.-Earlier life as Jay Marks:The exact date of Highwater's birth is unknown but it might be any time between 1923-1933...
for Song from the Earth: American Indian painting - 1980 – Tepilit Ole Saitoti for Maasai
- 1980 – Richard Borshay LeeRichard Borshay LeeRichard Borshay Lee is a Canadian anthropologist. Lee has studied at the University of Toronto and University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Ph.D. Presently, he holds a position at the University of Toronto as Professor Emeritus of Anthropology...
for The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society - 1980 – Urie BronfenbrennerUrie BronfenbrennerUrie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian American psychologist, known for developing his Ecological Systems Theory, and as a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States for disadvantaged pre-school children....
for The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design - 1979 – Phillip V. TobiasPhillip V. TobiasPhillip Vallentine Tobias is a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg...
for The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa - 1978 – Maxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong KingstonMaxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United...
for The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - 1978 – Allan Chase for Legacy of Malthus
- 1977 – Michi Weglyn for Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps
- 1977 – Richard KlugerRichard KlugerRichard Kluger worked as a journalist before becoming an accomplished Pulitzer Prize-winning author and book publisher.-Journalism:...
for Simple Justice - 1976 – Raphael PataiRaphael PataiRaphael Patai , born Ervin György Patai, was a Hungarian-Jewish ethnographer, historian, Orientalist and anthropologist.-Family background:...
for The Myth of the Jewish race - 1976 – Thomas KiernanThomas KiernanThomas Kiernan was a footballer who played in The Football League for Luton Town and Stoke City. He made twenty eight appearances for Stoke. He also played for Albion Rovers, Alloa Athletic, Celtic.-References:...
for The Arabs: Their history, aims, and challenge to the industrialized world - 1976 – Lucy S. Dawidowicz for The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945
- 1975 – Leon PoliakovLeon PoliakovLéon Poliakov was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism.Born into a Russian Jewish family, Poliakov lived in Italy and Germany until he settled in France....
for The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe - 1975 – Eugene D. GenoveseEugene D. GenoveseEugene Dominic Genovese is an American historian of the American South and American slavery. He has been noted for bringing a Marxist perspective to the study of power, class and relations between planters and slaves in the South. His work Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made won the...
for Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made - 1974 – Louis Leo SnyderLouis Leo SnyderLouis Leo Snyder was an American-born German scholar who witnessed the Nazi mass meetings and wrote about them in Hitlerism: The Iron Fist in Germany. He predicted Adolf Hitler's rise to power, alliance with Benito Mussolini, and war upon the French and the Jews.His 1932 book Hitler and Nazism ...
for The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History - 1974 – Albie SachsAlbie SachsAlbie Sachs was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009...
for Justice in South Africa - 1974 – Michel Fabre for The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
- 1974 – Charles DuguidCharles DuguidCharles Duguid was a Scottish-born medical practitioner and Aboriginal rights campaigner who recorded his experience working among the Australian Aborigines in a number of books.-Early career:...
for Doctor and the Aborigines - 1973 – Lee Rainwater for Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum
- 1973 – Betty Fladeland for Men & Brothers
- 1973 – Pat ConroyPat ConroyPat Conroy , is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.-Early life:...
for The Water Is WideThe Water Is Wide (book)The Water Is Wide is a 1972 autobiography by Pat Conroy and is based on his work as a teacher on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, which is called Yamacraw Island in the book. A film adaptation, titled Conrack, was created in 1974, starring Jon Voight... - 1972 – Donald L. Robinson for Slavery in the structure of American politics, 1765-1820
- 1972 – Naboth Mokgatle for The Autobiography of an Unknown South African
- 1972 – David Loye for The Healing of a Nation
- 1972 – John S. Haller for Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900
- 1972 – George M. FredricksonGeorge M. FredricksonGeorge M. Fredrickson was the Edgar E. Robinson Professor of U.S. History at Stanford University from 1984 until the time of his retirement in 2002...
for The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 - 1971 – Anthony WallaceAnthony F. C. WallaceAnthony Francis Clarke Wallace is a Canadian-American anthropologist who specializes in Native American cultures, especially the Iroquois. His research expresses an interest in the intersection of cultural anthropology and psychology...
for Death and Rebirth of Seneca - 1971 – Stan Steiner for La Raza: The Mexican Americans
- 1971 – Carleton Mabee for Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War
- 1971 – Robert William July for A History of the African People
- 1970 – Audrie Girdner for The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II
- 1970 – Florestan FernandesFlorestan FernandesFlorestan Fernandes was a Brazilian sociologist and politician. He was also elected federal deputy twice.- Life and career :...
for The Negro in Brazilian Society - 1970 – Vine Deloria for Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
- 1970 – Dan T. CarterDan T. Carter-Life:He graduated from University of South Carolina, University of Wisconsin, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a Ph.D. in 1967.He taught at the University of Maryland, and the University of Wisconsin....
for Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (about the Scottsboro boysScottsboro BoysThe Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial...
) - 1969 – Stuart Levine, Nancy O. Lurie for The American Indian Today
- 1969 – Leonard Dinnerstein for The Leo Frank Case
- 1969 – Gwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn BrooksGwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.-Biography:...
for In the Mecca; Poems - 1969 – E. Earl Baughman, W. Grant Dahlstrom for Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
- 1968 – Erich KahlerErich KahlerErich von Kahler was a renowned mid-twentieth-century European-American literary scholar and essayist best known for scholarly works like The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Man ....
for The Jews among the Nations - 1968 – Raul HilbergRaul HilbergRaul Hilberg was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final...
for The Destruction of the European Jews - 1968 – Robert ColesRobert ColesMartin Robert Coles is an American author, child psychiatrist, and professor at Harvard University.-Life and career:...
for Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear - 1968 – Norman Rufus Colin Cohn for Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- 1967 – Oscar LewisOscar LewisOscar Lewis was an American anthropologist who is best known for his vivid depictions of the lives of slum dwellers and for postulating that there was a cross-generational culture of poverty among poor people that transcended national boundaries...
for La Vida - 1967 – David Brion DavisDavid Brion DavisDavid Brion Davis is an American historian and authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He is the Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is a...
for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture - 1966 – Amram Scheinfeld for Your Heredity and Environment
- 1966 – Claude BrownClaude BrownClaude Brown is the author ofManchild in the Promised Land, published to critical acclaim in 1965, which tells the story of his coming of age during the 1940s and 1950s in Harlem...
for Manchild in the Promised Land - 1966 – Baldry for Unity Mankind Greek Thought
- 1966 – Alex HaleyAlex HaleyAlexander Murray Palmer Haley was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family and the coauthor of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.-Early life:...
for The Autobiography of Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X was published in 1965, the result of a collaboration between Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley. Haley coauthored the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X's 1965 assassination... - 1965 – James W. Silver for Mississippi: The Closed Society
- 1965 – Abram L. SacharAbram L. SacharAbram Leon Sachar was an American historian and founding president of Brandeis University.-Early life and education:...
for A History of the Jews, Revised Edition - 1965 – James M. McPhersonJames M. McPhersonJames M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...
for The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction - 1965 – Milton M. Gordon for Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins
- 1964 – Bernard E. Olson for Faith and Prejudice
- 1964 – Harold R. Isaacs for The New World of Negro Americans
- 1964 – Nathan GlazerNathan GlazerNathan Glazer is an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley and for several decades at Harvard University...
, Daniel P. Moynihan for Beyond the Melting Pot, Second Edition: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City - 1963 – Theodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius DobzhanskyTheodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky ForMemRS was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis...
for Mankind Evolving - 1962 – John Howard GriffinJohn Howard GriffinJohn Howard Griffin was an American journalist and author much of whose writing was about racial equality. He is best known for darkening his skin and journeying through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia to experience segregation in the Deep South in 1959...
for Black Like MeBlack Like MeBlack Like Me is a non-fiction book by journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. Griffin was a white native of Mansfield, Texas and the book describes his six-week experience travelling on Greyhound buses throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama... - 1962 – Dwight L. Dumond for Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America
- 1962 – Gina Allen for The Forbidden Man
- 1961 – Louis E. Lomax for The Reluctant African
- 1961 – E. R. BraithwaiteE. R. BraithwaiteEdward Ricardo Braithwaite is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people...
for To Sir, With LoveTo Sir, with Love (novel)To Sir, With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on true events concerned with Braithwaite taking up a teaching post in a school there... - 1960 – John Haynes HolmesJohn Haynes HolmesJohn Haynes Holmes was a prominent Unitarian minister and pacifist, noted for his anti-war activism.-Early years:John Haynes Holmes was born in Philadelphia on November 29, 1879. He studied at Harvard, graduating in 1902, and Harvard Divinity School, which he graduated in 1904. He was then called...
for I Speak for Myself - 1960 – Basil DavidsonBasil DavidsonBasil Risbridger Davidson MC was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution....
for Lost Cities of Africa - 1959 – George Eaton Simpson, J. Milton Yinger for Racial and Cultural Minorities:: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination
- 1959 – Martin Luther King Jr. for Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
- 1958 – South African Institute of Race RelationsSouth African Institute of Race RelationsEstablished in 1929 the South African Institute of Race Relations is a leading research and policy organisation in South Africa. The Institute is "one of the oldest liberal institutions in the country," and is independent of government and all political parties; it sees its role as serving its...
for Handbook on Race Relations - 1958 – Jessie B. Sams for White Mother
- 1957 – Father Trevor Huddleston for Naught for Your Comfort
- 1957 – Gilberto FreyreGilberto FreyreGilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...
for The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization - 1956 – George W. Shepherd for They Wait in Darkness
- 1956 – John P. Dean, Alex Rosen for Manual of Intergroup Relations
- 1955 – Lyle Saunders for Cultural Differences and Medical Care
- 1955 – Oden Meeker for Report on Africa
- 1954 – Langston HughesLangston HughesJames Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance...
for Simple Takes a Wife - 1954 – Vernon BartlettVernon BartlettCharles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett CBE was an English journalist, politician and author who served as a Member of Parliament from 1938 to 1950.-Life:...
for Struggle for Africa - 1953 – Han SuyinHan SuyinHan Suyin , is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow . She is a Chinese-born Eurasian author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician...
for A Many-Splendoured ThingA Many-Splendoured ThingA Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin. It was made into the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, which also inspired a famous song. In her autobiographical work "My House Has Two Doors" she clearly dissociates herself from the film and had no interest in even watching it in... - 1953 – Farley MowatFarley MowatFarley McGill Mowat, , born May 12, 1921 is a conservationist and one of Canada's most widely-read authors.His works have been translated into 52 languages and he has sold more than 14 million books. He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian North, such as People of the...
for People of the DeerPeople of the DeerPeople of the Deer is Canadian author Farley Mowat's first book, which brought him literary recognition.... - 1952 – Laurens Van Der PostLaurens van der PostSir Laurens Jan van der Post, CBE was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and...
for Venture to the Interior - 1952 – Brewton Berry for Race Relations
- 1951 – John HerseyJohn HerseyJohn Richard Hersey was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling devices of the novel are fused with non-fiction reportage...
for The Wall - 1951 – Henry Gibbs for Twilight in South Africa
- 1950 – Shirley Graham for Your Most Humble Servant
- 1950 – S. Andhil Fineberg for Punishment Without Crime
- 1949 – Alan PatonAlan PatonAlan Stewart Paton was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.-Family:Paton was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province , the son of a minor civil servant. After attending Maritzburg College, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Natal in his hometown, followed...
for Cry, the Beloved CountryCry, The Beloved CountryCry, the Beloved Country is a novel by South African author Alan Paton. It was first published in New York City in 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons and in London by Jonathan Cape; noted American publisher Bennett Cerf remarked at that year's meeting of the American Booksellers Association that there... - 1949 – J.C. FurnasJ.C. FurnasJ.C. Furnas was an American freelance writer. He is best known for his article, commissioned for the Reader's Digest, "---And Sudden Death!" This article brought national attention to the problem of automobile safety, and is the most-reprinted article in the Digest's history.His other works...
for Anatomy of Paradise - 1948 – Worth Tuttle Hedden for The Other Room
- 1948 – Kenneth R. Philp for John Collier's Crusade for Indian Reform, 1920-1954 (about John CollierJohn Collier (reformer)John Collier was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933-1945...
) - 1947 – Pauline R. Kibbe for Latin Americans in Texas
- 1947 – Sholem AschSholem AschSholem Asch, born Szalom Asz , also written Shalom Asch was a Polish-born American Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language.-Life and work:...
for Prophet - 1946 – Wallace StegnerWallace StegnerWallace Earle Stegner was an American historian, novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist, often called "The Dean of Western Writers"...
for One Nation - 1946 – St. Clair DrakeSt. Clair DrakeSt. Clair Drake was an African-American sociologist and anthropologist.Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia. Upon graduation from Hampton Institute in 1931, he became involved with The Society of Friends in the south...
for Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City - 1945 – Kenneth B. Clark for Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power
- 1945 – Gwethalyn GrahamGwethalyn GrahamGwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer, whose 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list...
for Earth and High HeavenEarth and High HeavenEarth and High Heaven was a 1944 novel by Gwethalyn Graham. It was the first Canadian novel to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list and stayed on the list for 37 weeks, selling 125 000 copies in the United States that year.... - 1944 – Ronald TakakiRonald TakakiRonald Toshiyuki Takaki was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept.-Early life:...
for A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America - 1944 – Maurice SamuelMaurice SamuelMaurice Samuel was a Romanian-born British and American novelist, translator and lecturer.A Jewish and Zionist intellectual, he is best known for his work You Gentiles, published in 1924...
for The World of Sholom Aleichem - 1944 – Roi Ottley for New World A-Coming
- 1943 – Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance...
for Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography - 1942 – James G. Leyburn for The Haitian People
- 1942 – Leopold InfeldLeopold InfeldLeopold Infeld was a Polish physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada . He was a Rockefeller fellow at Cambridge University and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences....
for Quest: An Autobiography - 1941 – Louis AdamicLouis AdamicLouis Adamic was a Slovenian American author and translator.- Biography :Adamic was born at Praproče Mansion in Praproče near Grosuplje, in what is now Slovenia...
for From Many Lands - 1940 – Edward Franklin Frazier for The Negro Family in the United States
- 1937 – Julian HuxleyJulian HuxleySir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century evolutionary synthesis...
for We Europeans - 1936 – Harold Foote GosnellHarold Foote GosnellHarold Foote Gosnell was an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties in political science....
for Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago
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