Brief – CREATE SOCIAL JUSTICE LITERARY PRIZE
Leverage Anne Frank’s life and legacy to create a unique literary prize that honors writers like Anne, who promote social justice.
Solution
After learning from Buddy Elias, Anne Frank’s first cousin and only living family member that Anne wished to become a journalist if she had lived through the Holocaust, David Clark leverages the “Anne Frank 75th Birthday Tribute” to create the “Anne Frank Human Writes Award,” to promote writers of every description who promote social justice – from journalists to screenwriters, playwrights to poets, and songwriters to novelists.
After conferring with Mr. Elias, the recipient of the inaugural Anne Frank Human Writes Award was Arthur Miller.
Accepting the award for his father who recently passed away, Robert Miller stated: “My father agreed to accept this honor because of his belief in the relevance of the writer in society and their power to inform us of the human condition. I feel that this award honors his lifelong commitment to seeking and exploring that relevance.”
In presenting the Anne Frank Human Writes Award, Buddy Elias stated: “Dear Mr. Miller, it is a great, great honor for me to be allowed to present you with the Human Writes Award for your father. I know that he wrote not only plays, but he was without a doubt THE playwright of our time. His sensitive criticism of our society, his humanism, his sensibility, together with his incredible talent for writing, made him an ideal candidate for this award. Would Anne be alive today, I know that she would applaud this decision.”
Event Chairs included President Bill Clinton, President Jimmy Carter, then Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Senator Robert J. Dole.
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