'Anansi's Gold' Wins 2024 BIO Plutarch Award

Anansi’s Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World (Bloomsbury) by Yepoka Yeebo has won the 2024 Plutarch Award, which honors for the best biography published in the English language in 2023. The award is presented by the Biographers International Organization, and comes with a $2,000 honorarium.

“Yepoka Yeebo’s voice holds our attention from first page to last,” 2024 Plutarch Award committee chair Carol Sklenicka said in a statement. “The image she projects of John Ackah Blay-Miezah and the worlds in which he operated is illuminating, cautionary, and unforgettable.”

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