Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

10 years of winners · Cleveland Foundation · Since 1935 · ← Back to award page


2024	The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History	Ned Blackhawk	Yale University Press
2023	Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad	Matthew Delmont	Viking
2022	All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake	Tiya Miles	Random House
2021	Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War	Vincent Brown	Belknap Press
2020	Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century	Charles King	Doubleday
2019	The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War	Andrew Delbanco	Penguin Press
2018	Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News	Kevin Young	Graywolf Press
2017	Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race	Margot Lee Shetterly	William Morrow
2016	The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle	Lillian Faderman	Simon & Schuster
2015	A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia	Richard S. Dunn	Harvard University Press