#  AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. To Host Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 

 





September 11, 2020

 

 

 On Thursday, October 1, 2020, at 8:00PM (Eastern), **[AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr](/people/henry-louis-gates-jr)**. will host the televised Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony honoring the 2020 winners: historian Eric Foner, poet Ilya Kaminsky, scholar Charles King, and novelist and [Harvard Professor or English Namwali Serpell](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/namwali-serpell).

 Professor Gates, a former Anisfield-Wolf award recipient for his work on the nonfiction series “The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers” in 1989, has been the jury chair for the awards since 1995.

 The October 1, 2020 premiere will be live-streamed on the Anisfield-Wolf Awards [website](https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/events/2020-pbs-doc/).

 In addition to its Oct. 1 premiere, the awards show will be rebroadcast through ideastream on [WVIZ/PBS](https://wviz.ideastream.org/) on Sunday, October 4, 2020, at 4:00PM (Eastern) and on Saturday, October 24, 2020, at 10:30PM (Eastern)



 

 

 



 

 

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