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Order   Name Award Year Honored For
  1. 1
    MacArthur Fellowship, Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Wallace Stevens Award, National Book Award for Poetry, Poets' Prize, Bollingen Prize, Frost Medal, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize More
    1994-07, 1999, 2004, 1991, 2001, 2006, 1996, 1974, 1992, 2003, 1986, 1995 More
    Poetry, The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004, An Atlas of the Difficult World, Fox: Poems 1998-2000, Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972, Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 More
  2. 2
    Prince of Asturias Award for Letters, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama, St. Louis Literary Award, Jerusalem Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama, Kennedy Center Honor, Jefferson Lecture More
    2002, 1949, 1943, 2001, 1941, 1946, 1998, 1980, 2003, 1959, 1984
    Death of a Salesman, The Song of Bernadette, How Green Was My Valley, Anna and the King of Siam More
  3. 3
    Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
    1993
  4. 4
    National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover), Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Ambassador Book Award for Biography & Autobiography, National Book Award for History, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Helmerich Award, St. Louis Literary Award, Quill Award for History/current events/politics, Jefferson Lecture More
    1982, 2002, 1993, 1978, 2001, 1995, 2005, 2003
    Mornings on Horseback, John Adams, Truman, The Path Between the Seas, 1776 More
  5. 5
    Helmerich Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Award for Fiction, Rea Award for the Short Story, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, PEN/Malamud Award, St. Louis Literary Award More
    1991, 1973, 1983, 1992, 1984, 1972
    The Optimist's Daughter, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
  6. 6
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Jefferson Lecture, Frost Medal, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards More
    1950, 1994, 1989, 1985, 1969
    Annie Allen, In the Mecca; Poems
  7. 7
    Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Frost Medal More
    1989, 1992, 1990
  8. 8
    Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, St. Louis Literary Award, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Clifton Fadiman Medal For Excellence In Fiction, National Book Award for Nonfiction, Ambassador Book Award for American Studies, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism More
    2007, 2002, 2005, 2004, 1988
    The Year of Magical Thinking, A Book of Common Prayer, Miami
  9. 9
    Helmerich Award, National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, Jefferson Lecture, St. Louis Literary Award, Ambassador Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, PEN/Malamud Award, Rea Award for the Short Story, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction More
    1987, 1983, 1993, 2008, 1982, 1990, 2004, 1981, 1998, 1988, 1997, 1991, 2006, 1964, 2000, 2007 More
    Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism, Roger's Version, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit At Rest, The Early Stories: 1953–1975, In the Beauty of the Lilies, The Centaur, Gertrude and Claudius, Toward the End of Time More
  10. 10
    Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters More
    1983, 2004
    Tiger Eyes
  11. 11
    Helmerich Award, Razzie Award for Worst Director, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Arts and Letters, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction More
    1992, 1987, 2005, 1980, 1969
    Ishtar, Tough Guys Don't Dance, The Executioner's Song, Armies of the Night More
  12. 12
    Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, Peabody Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, Kennedy Center Honor More
    2002, 1995, 1999, 2010
  13. 13
    PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Sidewise Award for Best Long-Form Alternate History, James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction, Franz Kafka Prize, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Man Booker International Prize, Lifetime Literary Achievement Award, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, PEN/Nabokov Award, Ambassador Book Award for Fiction, Prix Médicis étranger, National Book Award for Fiction, National Jewish Book Award for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography/Autobiography, New Jersey Notable Book Award More
    2001, 2004, 2005, 2000, 2011, 1998, 2006, 1999, 2002, 1995, 1960, 1988, 2007, 1987, 1997, 1994, 1991 More
    The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, I Married a Communist, The Human Stain, Sabbath's Theater, Goodbye, Columbus, Goodbye, Columbus, The Counterlife, Everyman, American Pastoral, Operation Shylock: A Confession, Patrimony: A True Story More
  14. 14
    Gandalf Grand Master Award, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Eaton Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction, Ross Macdonald Literary Award, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Helmerich Award, Prometheus Hall of Fame Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, World Horror Convention Grand Master Award, SFPA Grand Master More
    1980, 1988, 1989, 2008, 2002, 1977, 1994, 1984, 2000, 2001
    Fahrenheit 451
  15. 15
    August Derleth Award, Edgar Grand Master Award, Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, Quill Award for Sports, World Fantasy Convention Award, World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, World Horror Convention Grand Master Award More
    1987, 2007, 1996, 2009, 2005, 1980, 1982, 2004, 2002, 2006, 2008, 1999, 2003, 1998, 1995, 1992 More
    It, The Green Mile, Just After Sunset, Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, Do the Dead Sing?, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, Bag of Bones, Danse Macabre, Misery, The Man in the Black Suit, Cujo, The Dark Tower More
  16. 16
    Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Peabody Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction More
    2003, 1980, 1997, 1985
    The Good War
  17. 17
    Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Janet Heidiger Kafka Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, American Book Award, Jefferson Lecture, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Helmerich Award, Coretta Scott King Award for Authors More
    1993, 1988, 1996, 2008, 1977, 1989, 2005
    Beloved, A Mercy, Song of Solomon, Remember: The Journey to School Integration More

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