CHAIR: Cherry Provost
CO-CHAIR: Johanna Garfield, Dee Shapiro and James Panero
CO-CHAIR EMERITUS: Robert Kornfeld

EST: 1967
CONTACT: literary@thenationalartsclub.org

Our mission is to bring literary works of merit to the membership and general public through readings and discussions with authors; to present panel-discussions on literary subjects of interest (biography, memoir, etc.); to help aspiring writers through our scholarship program.

The Medal of Honor for Literature

The Medal of Honor for Literature is given for a body of work of literary excellence. We honor the achievement of the author chosen annually by the Literary Committee Members. The recipient can be a novelist, poet, playwright, memoirist, or biographer.

PAST RECIPIENTS:
2008 Don DeLillo
2007 Chinua Achebe
2006 P. D. James
2005 Alice Munro
2004 Shirley Hazard
2003 Tom Stoppard
2002 Edna O'Brien
2001 Tom Woolfe
2000 Nadine Gordimer
1999 Toni Morrison
1998 Grace Paley
1997 Margaret Atwood
1996 E. L. Doctorow
1995 William Styron
1994 Richard Wilbur
1993 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1992 Arthur Miller
1991 Philp Roth
1990 Iris Murdoch
1989 James Merrill
1988 Carlos Fuentes
1987 Robertson Davies
1986 Marguerite Yourcenar
1985 Joseph Campbell
1984 John Updike
1983 James Laughlin
1982 Barbara W. Tuchman
1981 Leon Edel
1980 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1979 Allen Ginsberg
1978 Saul Bellow
1976 Norman Mailer
1975 Tennessee Williams
1974 Eudora Welty
1973 Anthony Burgess
1972 Norman Cousins
1971 Ada Louise Huxtable
1970 S. J. Perelman
1969 W. H. Auden
1968 Louis Auchincloss

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