Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Winners

Winners

• 2012 - David Livingstone Smith for Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others
• 2012 - David Blight for American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
• 2012 - Esi Edugyan for Half-Blood Blues: A Novel
• 2012 - Wole Soyinka, Lifetime Achievement
• 2011 - Nicole Krauss for Great House
• 2011 - Mary Helen Stefaniak for The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
• 2011 - David Eltis/David Richardson for Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• 2011 - Isabel Wilkerson for The Warmth of Other Suns
• 2011 - John Edgar Wideman, Lifetime Achievement
• 2010 – Kamila Shamsie for Burnt Shadows
• 2010 – Elizabeth Alexander, Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry
• 2010 – William Julius Wilson, Lifetime Achievement Award in Nonfiction
• 2010 – Oprah Winfrey, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2009 – Louise Erdrich for The Plague of Doves
• 2009 – Nam Le for The Boat
• 2009 – Annette Gordon-Reed for The Hemingses of Monticello
• 2009 – Paule Marshall, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2008 - Ayaan Hirsi Ali for Infidel.
• 2008 – Junot Diaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
• 2008 – Mohsin Hamid for The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• 2008 – William Melvin Kelley, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2007 – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Half of a Yellow Sun
• 2007 – Taylor Branch for At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
• 2007 – Martha Collins for Blue Front
• 2007 – Scott Reynolds Nelson for Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
• 2006 – Zadie Smith for On Beauty
• 2006 – Jill Lepore for New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
• 2006 – William Demby, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2005 – August Wilson, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2005 – Geoffrey C. Ward for Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (about boxer Jack Johnson)
• 2005 – A. Van Jordan for Macnolia: Poems
• 2005 – Edwidge Danticat for The Dew Breaker
• 2004 – Derek Walcott, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2004 – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc for Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
• 2004 – Edward P. Jones for The Known World
• 2004 – Ira Berlin for Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
• 2003 – Reetika Vazirani for World Hotel
• 2003 – Samantha Power for A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• 2003 – Adrienne Kennedy, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2003 – Stephen L. Carter for The Emperor of Ocean Park
• 2002 – Jay Wright, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2002 – Colson Whitehead for John Henry Days
• 2002 – Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Annette Gordon-Reed for Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
• 2002 – Quincy Jones for Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
• 2001 – F. X. Toole for Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
• 2001 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963: The Fight for Equality and the American Century
• 2001 – Lucille Clifton, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2000 – Edward W. Said for Out of Place: A Memoir
• 2000 – Chang-Rae Lee for A Gesture Life
• 2000 – Ernest Gaines, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999 – John Lewis, Michael D'Orso for Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement)
• 1999 – John Hope Franklin, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1999 – Russell Banks for Cloudsplitter
• 1998 – Gordon Parks, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1998 – Walter Mosley for Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
• 1998 – Toi Derricotte for The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey
• 1997 – Albert L. Murray, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1997 – James McBride for The Color of Water
• 1997 – Jamaica Kincaid for Autobiography of My Mother
• 1996 – Dorothy West, Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1996 – Madison Smartt Bell for All Souls' Rising
• 1996 – Jonathan Kozol for Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
• 1995 – William H. Tucker for The Science and Politics of Racial Research
• 1995 – Brent Staples for Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
• 1995 – Reginald Gibbons for Sweetbitter: A Novel
• 1994 – David Levering Lewis for W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader
• 1994 – Judith Ortiz Cofer for The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry
• 1994 – Ronald Takaki for A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
• 1993 – Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas for The Civilization of the Goddess
• 1993 – Sandra Cisneros for Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
• 1993 – Kwame Anthony Appiah 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 Hayes for Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World
• 1992 – Melissa Fay Greene for Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
• 1992 – Ralph Ellison 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 Myrdal)
• 1991 – Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, Graham Hancock for African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
• 1990 – Dolores Kendrick for The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women
• 1990 – Hugh Honour for The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1
• 1989 – Peter Sutton for Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
• 1989 – George Lipsitz for Life In The Struggle
• 1989 – Henry Louis Gates Jr. for Collected Black Women's Narratives
• 1989 – Taylor Branch 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 Morrison for Beloved
• 1988 – Walter F. Morris, Jr. for Living Maya
• 1988 – Nadine Gordimer for A Sport of Nature
• 1987 – Gail Sheehy for Spirit of Survival
• 1987 – Arnold Rampersad 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 Breytenbach 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 Soyinka for Aké: The Years of Childhood
• 1983 – Richard Rodriguez 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 Highwater for Song from the Earth: American Indian painting
• 1980 – Tepilit Ole Saitoti for Maasai
• 1980 – Richard Borshay Lee for The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
• 1980 – Urie Bronfenbrenner for The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design
• 1979 – Phillip V. Tobias for The Bushmen: San hunters and herders of Southern Africa
• 1978 – Maxine Hong Kingston 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 Kluger for Simple Justice
• 1976 – Raphael Patai for The Myth of the Jewish race
• 1976 – Thomas Kiernan 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 Poliakov for The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe
• 1975 – Eugene D. Genovese for Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made
• 1974 – Louis Leo Snyder for The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History
• 1974 – Albie Sachs for Justice in South Africa
• 1974 – Michel Fabre for The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
• 1974 – Charles Duguid 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 Conroy for The Water Is Wide
• 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. Fredrickson for The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914
• 1971 – Anthony Wallace 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 Fernandes for The Negro in Brazilian Society
• 1970 – Vine Deloria for Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
• 1970 – Dan T. Carter for Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South (about the Scottsboro boys)
• 1969 – Stuart Levine, Nancy O. Lurie for The American Indian Today
• 1969 – Leonard Dinnerstein for The Leo Frank Case
• 1969 – Gwendolyn Brooks 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 Kahler for The Jews among the Nations
• 1968 – Raul Hilberg for The Destruction of the European Jews
• 1968 – Robert Coles 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 Lewis for La Vida
• 1967 – David Brion Davis for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
• 1966 – Amram Scheinfeld for Your Heredity and Environment
• 1966 – Claude Brown for Manchild in the Promised Land
• 1966 – Baldry for Unity Mankind Greek Thought
• 1966 – Alex Haley for The Autobiography of Malcolm X
• 1965 – James W. Silver for Mississippi: The Closed Society
• 1965 – Abram L. Sachar for A History of the Jews, Revised Edition
• 1965 – James M. McPherson 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 Glazer, Daniel P. Moynihan for Beyond the Melting Pot, Second Edition: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
• 1963 – Theodosius Dobzhansky for Mankind Evolving
• 1962 – John Howard Griffin for Black Like Me
• 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. Braithwaite for To Sir, With Love
• 1960 – John Haynes Holmes for I Speak for Myself
• 1960 – Basil Davidson 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 Relations for Handbook on Race Relations
• 1958 – Jessie B. Sams for White Mother
• 1957 – Father Trevor Huddleston for Naught for Your Comfort
• 1957 – Gilberto Freyre 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 Hughes for Simple Takes a Wife
• 1954 – Vernon Bartlett for Struggle for Africa
• 1953 – Han Suyin for A Many-Splendoured Thing
• 1953 – Farley Mowat for People of the Deer
• 1952 – Laurens Van Der Post for Venture to the Interior
• 1952 – Brewton Berry for Race Relations
• 1951 – John Hersey 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 Paton for Cry, the Beloved Country
• 1949 – J.C. Furnas 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 Collier)
• 1947 – Pauline R. Kibbe for Latin Americans in Texas
• 1947 – Sholem Asch for Prophet
• 1946 – Wallace Stegner for One Nation
• 1946 – St. Clair Drake 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 Graham for Earth and High Heaven
• 1944 – Maurice Samuel for The World of Sholom Aleichem
• 1944 – Roi Ottley for New World A-Coming
• 1943 – Zora Neale Hurston for Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
• 1942 – James G. Leyburn for The Haitian People
• 1942 – Leopold Infeld for Quest: An Autobiography
• 1941 – Louis Adamic for From Many Lands
• 1940 – Edward Franklin Frazier for The Negro Family in the United States
• 1937 – Julian Huxley for We Europeans
• 1936 – Harold Foote Gosnell for Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago