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Have You Been Butchering Your Favorite Author’s Name?
July 13, 2012
We’re sticklers for learning how to pronounce all of our winners’ names. We don’t pat ourselves on the back for…
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Biographer Arnold Rampersad Is The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Winner
July 11, 2012
Arnold Rampersad, our 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winner, has a special tie to the Cleveland area, where our awards are hosted every…
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Huffington Post Reveals 50 Books Every African American Should Read – How Many AW Winners Made The List?
July 9, 2012
Huffington Post’s Black Voices rounded up 50 books the editors think every African American should read (they added on Twitter…
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Zadie Smith On Balancing Motherhood And A Writing Career
July 6, 2012
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s “Why Women Can’t Have It All” article has re-ignited the conversation about working mothers and their quest to…
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Would You Like To See Your Relatives As The Subject Of A Book?
July 4, 2012
Isabel Wilkerson’s 2010 masterpiece The Warmth of Other Suns focuses on the Great Migration, scores of Southern African Americans who packed…
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Junot Diaz Speaks On Race and Literature, Will Be Keynote Speaker At Facing Race Conference 2012
July 2, 2012
During a two-day symposium at Stanford University, Junot Diaz had the opportunity to sit down with editor Paula M.L. Moya…
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Friday Lit Review: Are E-Books Taking Over?
June 29, 2012
Each Friday we’ll be bringing you news about your favorite authors, literature and books in general. Tell us what you…
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88 Books That Shaped America (According To The Library Of Congress)
June 27, 2012
No, it’s not a “best books of all-time” list, but the list assembled by the Library of Congress, to celebrate…
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Middle School Students Perform “Warmth Of Other Suns” Play
June 25, 2012
There’s nothing like seeing young people get excited about history, something that is typically pretty hard to do. “Warmth of…
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“Most Of What I Do Fails”: Honest Observations From James McBride
June 22, 2012
It’s almost hard to believe 1997 Anisfield-Wolf winner James McBride when he talks about his failures. His 2002 novel, Miracle…
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Who’s Been Called The “Tiger Woods Of American Literature”?
June 20, 2012
2004 winner Edward P. Jones is a skilled writer. That seems to be understood quite well by all who have…
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VIDEO: Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 – Is This The Future Of Literature?
June 18, 2012
Book clubs have tended to be a very private thing. Intimate gatherings among friends, book clubs were a simple time…
