Aired September 7, 2006

William Demby, Zadie Smith, host Dee Perry, Jill Lepore

For 71 years, Cleveland has been home to a literary award that recognizes the ugliness humans often inflict on each other, but that also celebrates the hope and beauty of searching for understanding. That prize is the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, which was created in 1935 to honor writers who advanced the cause of diversity in all its many shades and forms. The 2006 winners gather Thursday evening at the Cleveland Play House to receive their awards in a ceremony that is already full to capacity. Around Noon host Dee Perry welcomed those writers to our Idea Center studios: fiction winner Zadie Smith for On Beauty, non-fiction winner Jill Lepore for New York Burning and lifetime achievement award winner William Demby.

Listen to the program in MP3:
Part 1: Zadie Smith	Part 2: Jill Lepore	Part 3: William Demby