Being able to communicate directly with your favorite writers and authors is probably one of the best uses of Twitter. Here, we’ve rounded up some Anisfield-Wolf winners you can find tweeting and answering questions from their readers. Click on the tweets to see their full profiles.
Author Isabel Wilkerson On Past And Present: “Our Current Divisions Are Neither New Nor Surprising”
January 27, 2017
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#WritersOnTrump Push Back On Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee
May 25, 2016
Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…
New “Bench By The Road” Marks Underground Railroad History In Cleveland’s University Circle
May 18, 2016
Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…
Nefertiti Austin
February 19, 2012
My love of all things Walter Mosley led me to the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards website. I do not know how to not write about race and recently grappled with this issue when I began a nonfiction collection of essays. Finding this website and learning of Mrs. Anisfield-Wolf’s amazing vision 70+ years ago, reminds me that race matters and that my project, heavy with race, gender and laughter, deserves the light of day.
I look forward to tweeting with and learning from your Anisfield-Wolf authors.
Anisfield-Wolf
February 19, 2012
@Nefertiti – Thank you for your beautiful comment. We are excited to have you join us!