2012 Anisfield-Wolf winners

"The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winners reflect the complexity of the issues of race and cultural diversity in our world," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, who serves as jury chair. "These books and the people who created them help us gain a deeper understanding of the need to respect both the humanity and individuality of one other." Our 2012 winners are (click on any of the photos to read more on the authors):

* Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues: A Novel, Fiction
* David Blight, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Nonfiction
* David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, Nonfiction
* Wole Soyinka, Lifetime Achievement