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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 67 (2002)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

5 people
Colson Whitehead こるそん ほわいとへっど Winner

A novel that reimagines the John Henry legend through a Black journalist's drifting, media-saturated modern life.

A novel moving between legend and contemporary junketeering.

400 pages
novelmyth reworkingracemedia culture
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. ゔぁーのん いー じょーだん じゅにあ Winner

A memoir tracing Vernon Jordan's path from civil rights activism into national politics and law.

A memoir that follows a civil-rights leader into the corridors of power.

352 pages
memoircivil rightspoliticslaw
Annette Gordon-Reed あねっと ごーどん りーど Winner
Quincy Jones くいんしー じょーんず Winner

Quincy Jones's autobiography traces his early life and rise through the music industry.

An autobiography by one of music's most influential figures.

416 pages
autobiographymusicBlack cultureshow business
Jay Wright じぇい らいと Lifetime Achievement Award