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

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