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William Dean Howells Medal

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.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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 Faulkner
Author
25-Sep-1897 6-Jul-1962 Novels set in the American South
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   Gravity's Rainbow
William Styron
Novelist
11-Jun-1925 31-Oct-2006 The Confessions of Nat Turner
John Updike
Novelist
18-Mar-1932 27-Jan-2009 Rabbit, Run


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