Ishmael Reed among winners of Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

NEW YORK (AP) — Author, playwright and longtime champion of multiculturalism Ishmael Reed is receiving a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to literature. The Cleveland Foundation announced Tuesday that Reed is among this year’s winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, given for work that “confronts racism and explores diversity.” Percival Everett’s novel “The Trees” won for fiction and Donika Kelly’s “The Renunciations” was cited for poetry. Prizes for nonfiction were given to George Makari’s “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia” and Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake.”