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Notable Honorees William Faulkner • W. H. Auden • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Stephen Greenblatt • Stephen King • Norman Mailer • Robert Caro • W.S. Merwin • Sherman Alexie • Saul Bellow • John Steinbeck • Robert Bly • John Cheever • Joyce Carol Oates • John Updike • Patti Smith • George F. Kennan • Flannery O’Connor • Robert Lowell, Jr. • Julia Child • Adrienne Rich • Nelson Algren • Peter Matthiessen • Alice Walker • E.L. Doctorow • Robert Penn Warren • Elizabeth Bishop • Rachel Carson • Thornton Wilder • Annie Proulx • Ha Jin • Ta-Nehisi Coates • James Merrill • Philip Roth • Louise Erdrich • Thomas Pynchon • Katherine Anne Porter • Jonathan Franzen • Wallace Stevens • Gore Vidal • Allen Ginsberg • Thomas L. Friedman • Ursula K. Le Guin • David McCullough • Lisel Mueller • Bernard Malamud • Maxine Hong Kingston • William Styron • Don DeLillo • Archibald MacLeish • Cormac McCarthy • Conrad Aiken • John Crowe Ransom • Marianne Moore • Wallace Stegner • Tom Wolfe • C.K. Williams • John Barth • Walker Percy • Audre Lorde • Mona Van Duyn • Robert Hass • Joan Didion • Ralph Ellison • John Berryman • Jerzy Kosinski • Philip Levine • Lewis Mumford • Daniel Hoffman • Penelope Lively • William H. McNeill • Lucille Clifton • William Gaddis • James Dickey • Susan Sontag • Shirley Hazzard • John Ashbery • Charles Simic • Wright Morris • Tim O’Brien • Frank O’Hara • William Carlos Williams • Stanley Kunitz • William Meredith • Mary Oliver • Rita Dove • Leon Edel • Randall Jarrell • Justin Kaplan • William L. Shirer • James Tate • Paul Monette • Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. • William Stafford • Bruce Catton • John O’Hara • Hayden Carruth • A.R. Ammons • Richard Wilbur • Carolyn Kizer • James McBride • Jesmyn Ward • Jacqueline Woodson • Sigrid Nunez • Theodore Roethke • Robert Stone • Bernard De Voto • Donald Barthelme • Galway Kinnell • James Jones • Richard Eberhart • Gloria Naylor • Richard Ellmann • Alan Dugan • Conrad Michael Richter • Barry Lopez • Howard Moss • Joseph Wood Krutch • W. Jackson Bate

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