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

Edition 71 (2006)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

3 people
Zadie Smith ざでぃー すみす Winner

A family novel set between the university and the home, exploring art, politics, race, and class with wit and sharp observation.

Intellectual rivalry and family tension drive a novel of love and culture-war collisions.

464 pages
familyrace and classartuniversity lifeidentity
Jill Lepore じる るぽーる Winner

A historical reconstruction of the 1741 fires and slave conspiracy panic in Manhattan, showing how ideals of liberty sat atop violence and fear.

Beneath the city of liberty lies the violence of slavery.

352 pages
colonial historyslaveryurban historyraceconspiracy
William Demby うぃりあむ でんびー Lifetime Achievement Award