NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Author-scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah has received a $500,000 lifetime achievement award from the Library of Congress.
Appiah, 70, has won the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity, given every two years to 鈥渋ndividuals whose outstanding scholarship in the humanities and social sciences has shaped public affairs and civil society.鈥 Appiah is known for such books as 鈥淐osmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers," 鈥淭he Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen鈥 and for co-editing 鈥淎fricana: The Encyclopedia of African and African American Experience."
鈥淒r. Appiahsa国际传媒 philosophical work is elegant, groundbreaking and highly respected,鈥 Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden said in a statement Thursday. 鈥淗is writing about race and identity transcends predictable categories and encourages dialogue across traditional divisions."
Appiah is the Silver Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a former president of PEN America.
Previous winners of the Kluge prize include Danielle Allen and Drew Gilpin Faust.
