Philanthropist and Poet. Daughter of a successful Jewish businessman and his wife, she was encouraged from childhood to pursue her academic interests and follow in their footsteps in the areas of charity and public service. She graduated in 1918 from the College for Women at Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Fluent in French, German, and Spanish, she devoted her life to philanthropy and literature. She managed her family's large estate and wrote poetry from her downtown Cleveland office. She published six volumes of poetry and also published poetry and articles in various magazines. In 1935 she established the Ainsfield-Wolf Awards, named for her father, John Anisfield, and husband, attorney Eugene Wolf. These cash prizes are today awarded to authors of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books that address race relations. Some winners have written about ethnic, national and religious communities, as well as works examining the historical roots of current social ills. Among the winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Awards are Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Langston Hughes, and four Nobel prize winners. Wolf's other civic endeavors included participation in the Association for Crippled and Disabled and the Cleveland Branch of the American Society of Pen Women. She served on the board of the Cleveland Public Library where one of her aims was to insure the library system offered books from many different cultural perspectives. Wolf's own entire valuable collection of books was donated to them upon her death, and the main branch building houses in Special Collections copies of every Anisfield-Wolf Award winning book to date, both reading copies and first editions. In 2001, Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University instituted the Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellowship, with a second following in 2015, to further racial studies in the classroom as well. Upon her death she willed her family home on East Blvd. to the Cleveland Welfare Federation and left funds to the Cleveland Foundation, which were used to establish the Anisfield-Wolf Award for community service. Wolf and her husband, who she married in 1918, had no children.