The Root and Plain Dealer report on David Smith's Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction

The Cleveland Plain Dealer and The Root covered the announcement that David Livingstone Smith, Ph.D., UNE associate professor of philosophy, has been named winner of the 77th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction for his 2011 book Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.

The award was announced by the Cleveland Foundation on April 19, 2012. The Anisfield-Wolf winners will be honored in Cleveland on Sept. 13 at a ceremony hosted by the Foundation and emceed by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University.

This year's jury also included poet Rita Dove, novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates, philosopher Steven Pinker, and historian Simon Schama. Previous winners of the award have included Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Toni Morrison.

Smith recently discussed Less Than Human on NPR's Talk of the Nation. He is also the author of  Why We Lie: The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind and The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War.  Read more.

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