HONOR

Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters beginning in 1915, the first recipient being William Dean Howells (the first President of the organization, former editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and one of the most prominent American men of letters in the 19th and early 20th century) himself.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pearl S. Buck	Author	26-Jun-1892	6-Mar-1973	The Good Earth
James Gould Cozzens	Novelist	19-Aug-1903	9-Aug-1978	Guard of Honor
William Dean Howells	Author	1-Mar-1837	11-May-1920	The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Maxwell	Novelist	16-Aug-1908	31-Jul-2000	The Folded Leaf
Thomas Pynchon	Novelist	8-May-1937		Reclusive author of Gravity's Rainbow, etc.
William Styron	Novelist	11-Jun-1925	31-Oct-2006	The Confessions of Nat Turner
John Updike	Novelist	18-Mar-1932		Novelist, Rabbit, Run etc

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