One of the quiet treasures of northeast Ohio is taking place once again, administered by The Cleveland Foundation. The event's fact sheet [1] summarizes its purpose in the following way:
If you attend you will have a chance to meet the authors, hear them read their works, and buy their books. For more information (including the present winners and a list of past winners), visit www.anisfield-wolf.org [2]. Although registration has not opened as of this writing, register well in advance of the event. In recent years they have had a capacity crowd.
I heard author F.X. Toole read from his work Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, a collection of short stories about boxing in 2001. In 2004 Clint Eastwood directed Million Dollar Baby, a movie based on one of the stories in Rope Burns.
The awards are chaired by Henry Louis Gates, Jr [3]., chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, the country's oldest think tank in black studies.
Links:
[1] http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/images/A-W_Fact_Sheet_2005.pdf
[2] http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/
[3] http://www.anisfield-wolf.org/newsarticle.cfm?articleid=632&ptsidebaroptid=100&returnto=page310.cfm&returntoname=The%20Jury&siteid=29&pageid=272&sidepageid=310