Hosted by jury chair Natasha Trethewey, THE 89TH ANNUAL ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS features the personal stories of the 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and explores diversity. Viewers are transported to across the U.S. to hear the inspiring and revealing stories of this year's honorees. Host Natasha Trethewey is a poet, memoirist and Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University who received a Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2007 and served as the nation's 19th poet laureate from 2012-2014. She is also a past recipient of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. In announcing the 2024 honorees, Ms. Trethewey said, "It is a great pleasure to recognize this year's winners, who have used their unique voices and experiences to spark critical conversations. This class joins past recipients, who include literary luminaries and contemporary thought leaders, in leveraging the power of words to explore and confront some of the most challenging topics facing us today." Members of the Anisfield-Wolf jury are: chair Natasha Trethewey, poet Rita Dove, novelist Peter Ho Davies, historian Tiya Miles and psychologist Steven Pinker.
