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| Arts and Letters Awards | ||||
| In 1941 the Academy established awards to encourage creative work in the arts. Now $7,500 each, Arts and Letters Awards (formerly Academy Awards) are given annually: five to artists, eight to writers, four to composers, and three to architects. Composers receive an additional $7,500 toward the recording of a work. | ||||
| Name | Award | Year | ||
| Barry Bergdoll | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2013 | |
| Ellen Berkenblit | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2013 | |
| Katherine Boo | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Steven Burke | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2013 | |
| Tom Cipullo | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2013 | |
| Donald Crockett | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2013 | |
| Teddy Cruz | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2013 | |
| Louise Fishman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2013 | |
| Kamran Ince | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2013 | |
| Joanna Klink | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Sanford Kwinter | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2013 | |
| Neil LaBute | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Judy Linn | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2013 | |
| Bill McKibben | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Bruce Norris | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Thomas Phifer | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2013 | |
| Darryl Pinckney | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| D.A. Powell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Judith Shea | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2013 | |
| Keith Sonnier | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2013 | |
| Brad Watson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2013 | |
| Hilary Ballon | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2012 | |
| Marlon Blackwell | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2012 | |
| Jim Campbell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2012 | |
| Andre Dubus III | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Elizabeth Gray | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2012 | |
| Adam Hochschild | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| David Lindsay-Abaire | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Michael Maltzan | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2012 | |
| Christopher Middleton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Paul Moravec | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2012 | |
| John Newman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2012 | |
| Alan Organschi | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2012 | |
| Julie Otsuka | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Michael Palmer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Frederick Seidel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Michael E. Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2012 | |
| Rebecca Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2012 | |
| Timothy Snyder | Art and Letters Award | Literature | 2012 | |
| Frank Ticheli | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2012 | |
| Dan Welcher | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2012 | |
| Karl Wirsum | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2012 | |
| John Zorn | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2012 | |
| Karim Al-Zand | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2011 | |
| John Bradford | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2011 | |
| Mark Doty | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| David Dzubay | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2011 | |
| Alice Fulton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| John Koethe | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Jonathan Lasker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2011 | |
| Sylvia Lavin | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2011 | |
| Steven Mackey | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2011 | |
| William E. Massie | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2011 | |
| Colum McCann | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Ron Nagle | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2011 | |
| Suzan-Lori Parks | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Alex Ross | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Michelle Segre | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2011 | |
| Arlene Shechet | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2011 | |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Julie VandenBerg Snow | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2011 | |
| Lewis Spratlan | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2011 | |
| Joseph Stroud | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2011 | |
| Anthony Vidler | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2011 | |
| Daniel Asia | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2010 | |
| Blake Bailey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Gabrielle Bakker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2010 | |
| Stephen Cassell | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2010 | |
| Peter Cole | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Steve Erickson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Peter Everwine | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| David Felder | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2010 | |
| Pierre Jalbert | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2010 | |
| Young Jean Lee | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Osterburg Lothar | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2010 | |
| Michael Meredith | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2010 | |
| James Primosch | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2010 | |
| Hilary Sample | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2010 | |
| Bruce Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Michael Sorkin | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2010 | |
| Julianne Swartz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2010 | |
| Tom Uttech | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2010 | |
| Stanley Whitney | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2010 | |
| Natasha Wimmer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2010 | |
| Adam Yarinsky | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2010 | |
| Stan Allen | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2009 | |
| Stephen Antonakos | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2009 | |
| Rilla Askew | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| Wendell Burnette | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2009 | |
| Michael Collier | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| Gregory Crewdson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2009 | |
| John Dubrow | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2009 | |
| David Gompper | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2009 | |
| Duncan Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2009 | |
| Jeffrey Kipnis | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2009 | |
| David Lang | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2009 | |
| Tracy Letts | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| D. Nurkse | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| Marie Ponsot | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| George Saunders | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| Susan Stewart | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2009 | |
| Andrew Waggoner | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2009 | |
| Susan Jane Walp | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2009 | |
| Barbara White | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2009 | |
| Virko Baley | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2008 | |
| James Carpenter | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2008 | |
| Dan Chiasson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Neil Denari | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2008 | |
| Brian Doyle | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Rikki Ducornet | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Will Eno | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Llyn Foulkes | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2008 | |
| Donal Fox | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2008 | |
| Kenneth Frampton | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2008 | |
| Edith Grossman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Eric Holzman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2008 | |
| Fanny Howe | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Jim Jennings | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2008 | |
| Judith Linhares | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2008 | |
| Gordon Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2008 | |
| Richard Nelson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Pablo Ortiz | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2008 | |
| Mona Simpson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2008 | |
| Susan Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2008 | |
| Joan Acocella | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Leonardo Balada | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2007 | |
| Mason Bates | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2007 | |
| Chester Biscardi | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2007 | |
| Charles D'Ambrosio | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Jackie Gendel | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2007 | |
| Julian Hatton | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2007 | |
| Bryan Hunt | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2007 | |
| Ben Johnston | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2007 | |
| Wes Jones | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2007 | |
| Tom Kundig | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2007 | |
| David Markson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Robert Morgan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Sarah Oppenheimer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2007 | |
| Dana Schutz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2007 | |
| Joan Silber | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| William T. Vollmann | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Lebbeus Woods | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2007 | |
| Dean Young | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2007 | |
| Marwan Al-Sayed | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2006 | |
| Derek Bermel | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2006 | |
| Margaret Brouwer | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2006 | |
| Yung Ho Chang | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2006 | |
| Dan Chaon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Tamar Diesendruck | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2006 | |
| Charles Edward Eaton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Daniel Mark Epstein | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Michael Fried | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| David Froom | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2006 | |
| Jeanne Gang | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2006 | |
| Mary Gordon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Elizabeth King | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2006 | |
| Glenn Ligon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2006 | |
| Stephen Sandy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Stacy Schiff | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| John Patrick Shanley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2006 | |
| Arthur Simms | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2006 | |
| Merrill Wagner | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2006 | |
| Yuriko Yamaguchi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2006 | |
| Ross Bauer | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2005 | |
| Phong Bui | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2005 | |
| Kendall Buster | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2005 | |
| Lynn Davis | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2005 | |
| Richard Festinger | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2005 | |
| David Glaser | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2005 | |
| Matthew Greenbaum | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2005 | |
| Jim Grimsley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Gisue Hariri | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2005 | |
| Mojgan Hariri | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2005 | |
| Joseph Harrison | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Edward P. Jones | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Donald Margulies | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Charles Martin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Jeffrey Meyers | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Toshiko Mori | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2005 | |
| Judith Murray | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2005 | |
| Stephen Orgel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Lella Vignelli | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2005 | |
| Massimo Vignelli | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2005 | |
| Phoebe Washburn | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2005 | |
| Burton Watson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2005 | |
| Miguel B. Chuaqui | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2004 | |
| Preston Scott Cohen | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2004 | |
| Henri Cole | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| James Corner | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2004 | |
| Justin Dello Joio | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2004 | |
| Jacqueline Gourevitch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2004 | |
| Spence Guerin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2004 | |
| Marilyn Hacker | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Samuel Hynes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Jorge Liderman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2004 | |
| Arnost Lustig | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Michael Manfredi | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2004 | |
| Joe Ashby Porter | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Faith Ringgold | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2004 | |
| Louis D. Rubin, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Robert Stuart | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2004 | |
| Paula Vogel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| John Walker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2004 | |
| Marion Weiss | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2004 | |
| Greg Williamson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2004 | |
| Richard Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2004 | |
| Andrea Barrett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Clark Blaise | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Eric Chasalow | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2003 | |
| R. Crumb | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2003 | |
| Percival Everett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Robert Lazzarini | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2003 | |
| Zhou Long | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2003 | |
| Greg Lynn | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2003 | |
| Hilary Masters | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Lynne McMahon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Jeffrey Mumford | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2003 | |
| Guy Nordenson | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2003 | |
| Gregory Orr | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Nancy Rubins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2003 | |
| Roberto Sierra | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2003 | |
| Tom Sleigh | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Gary Stephan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2003 | |
| Richard Tuttle | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2003 | |
| Anne Winters | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2003 | |
| Andrew Zago | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2003 | |
| Polly Apfelbaum | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2002 | |
| Claude Baker | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2002 | |
| Daniel Becker | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2002 | |
| Benson Bobrick | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Christopher Durang | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Linda Gregerson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Tony Hoagland | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Charles Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Rick Joy | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2002 | |
| Mel Kendrick | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2002 | |
| David Liptak | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2002 | |
| Cindy McTee | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2002 | |
| Stanley Plumly | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Monica Ponce de Leon | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2002 | |
| James Richardson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Lucas Samaras | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2002 | |
| Peter Saul | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2002 | |
| Alan Shapiro | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2002 | |
| Nader Tehrani | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2002 | |
| Stephen Westfall | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2002 | |
| Chakaia Booker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2001 | |
| Guy Davenport | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Lucky DeBellevue | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2001 | |
| Martha Diamond | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2001 | |
| David Ferry | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Kimberly Holden | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| Jacqueline Humphries | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2001 | |
| Vincent James | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| Justen Ladda | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2001 | |
| Charles L. Mee | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Alice Notley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Gregg Pasquarelli | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| Carl Phillips | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Gerald Plain | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2001 | |
| Christopher Sharples | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| Coren Sharples | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| William Sharples | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2001 | |
| Allen Shawn | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2001 | |
| Bright Sheng | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2001 | |
| Augusta Read Thomas | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2001 | |
| Frederic Tuten | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Tobias Wolff | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| James Wood | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2001 | |
| Josephine Haxton (Ellen Douglas) | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000* | |
| David Bromwich | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Will Bruder | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2000 | |
| Sebastian Currier | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2000 | |
| Ellen Douglas (Josephine Haxton) | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Jonathan Galassi | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Ellen Gallagher | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2000 | |
| Libby Larsen | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2000 | |
| Craig Lucas | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Lorrie Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Brian Morton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| David Rakowski | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2000 | |
| Jesse Reiser | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2000 | |
| Honoré Sharrer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2000 | |
| James Siena | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2000 | |
| David St. John | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Nanako Umemoto | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 2000 | |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 2000 | |
| Melinda Wagner | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 2000 | |
| Trevor Winkfield | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2000 | |
| Steve Wolfe | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 2000 | |
| George Condo | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1999 | |
| Nathan Currier | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1999 | |
| Michael Gordon | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1999 | |
| Edmund Keeley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Jon Krakauer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Frank Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1999 | |
| Susanna Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Eric Owen Moss | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1999 | |
| Erica Muhl | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1999 | |
| Thomas Nozkowski | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1999 | |
| Ron Padgett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Richard Price | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Sherod Santos | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Lee Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Altoon Sultan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1999 | |
| C.K. Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1999 | |
| Julia Wolfe | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1999 | |
| Joe Zucker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1999 | |
| James O. Clark | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1998 | |
| Cindy Cox | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1998 | |
| David Deutsch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1998 | |
| Annie Dillard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Daniel S. Godfrey | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1998 | |
| Albert Guerard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Edward Hirsch | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Charles Le Dray | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1998 | |
| Ingram Marshall | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1998 | |
| Jorge Martin | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1998 | |
| Bradford Morrow | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Laurie D. Olin | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1998 | |
| Ken Price | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1998 | |
| Robert D. Richardson, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Mary Ruefle | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Gjertrud Schnackenberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Edward Snow | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1998 | |
| Terry Winters | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1998 | |
| Charles Baxter | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Curt Cacioppo | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1997 | |
| Enrique Chagoya | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1997 | |
| Lane Dunlop | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Brian Fennelly | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1997 | |
| Allen Grossman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Tim Hawkinson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1997 | |
| Maureen Howard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Bill Jensen | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1997 | |
| Daniel Libeskind | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1997 | |
| Jayne Anne Phillips | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Harvey Quaytman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1997 | |
| Morris Rosenzweig | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1997 | |
| Luc Sante | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| James Seawright | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1997 | |
| Wallace Shawn | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Marilyn Shrude | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1997 | |
| Jane Smiley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1997 | |
| Whitney Balliett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Jack Beal | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1996 | |
| Carol Brightman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Ronald Caltabiano | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1996 | |
| Richard Danielpour | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1996 | |
| Anthony Davis | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1996 | |
| Robert Fagles | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Robert Hughes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| August Kleinzahler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Larry Kramer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Maya Lin | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1996 | |
| Scott Lindroth | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1996 | |
| Kerry James Marshall | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1996 | |
| John Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1996 | |
| Paul Muldoon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Jim Nutt | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1996 | |
| Otto Piene | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1996 | |
| David Quammen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1996 | |
| Robert Beaser | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1995 | |
| Robert Bechtle | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1995 | |
| Louis Begley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| David Carlson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1995 | |
| R.V. Cassill | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Vija Celmins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1995 | |
| Jane Cooper | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Stephen Dunn | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Merrill Elam | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1995 | |
| Horton Foote | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| John Haines | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Josephine Humphreys | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Aaron Jay Kernis | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1995 | |
| Ellen Phelan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1995 | |
| Mack Scogin | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1995 | |
| Stuart Shils | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1995 | |
| George Tsontakis | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1995 | |
| Miller Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1995 | |
| Richard Yarde | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1995 | |
| Jon Robin Baitz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Marvin Bell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Stephen Brown | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1994 | |
| David Chaitkin | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1994 | |
| Susanna Coffey | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1994 | |
| John Dobbs | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1994 | |
| Stuart Dybek | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Janet Fish | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1994 | |
| Hsin-Ming Fung | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1994 | |
| Craig Hodgetts | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1994 | |
| Katherine Hoover | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1994 | |
| Adrienne Kennedy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Michael H. Kurek | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1994 | |
| Tony Kushner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Mary Lee Settle | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| John H. Thow | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1994 | |
| Chase Twichell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Ursula Von Rydingsvard | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1994 | |
| Geoffrey Wolff | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1994 | |
| Ellen Akins | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Richard Bausch | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Vance Bourjaily | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Deborah Eisenberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Rolf Fjelde | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Tom Friedman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1993 | |
| Mark Greenwold | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1993 | |
| Stephen Hartke | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1993 | |
| Tina Howe | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Franklin D. Israel | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1993 | |
| Stephen Jaffe | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1993 | |
| Denis Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Gregory Kondos | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1993 | |
| Donald Lipski | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1993 | |
| A.G. Mojtabai | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1993 | |
| Mary Robertson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1993 | |
| Christopher Rouse | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1993 | |
| David Sheinfeld | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1993 | |
| Alice Adams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Robert Berlind | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1992 | |
| Jake Berthot | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1992 | |
| John Crowley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Fred Dalkey | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1992 | |
| Richard Foreman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Charles Fussell | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1992 | |
| Vicki Hearne | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Eugene Kurtz | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1992 | |
| Peter Lieberson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1992 | |
| Thom Mayne | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1992 | |
| Tim O'Brien | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Tobias Picker | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1992 | |
| Leatrice Rose | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1992 | |
| Michael Rotondi | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1992 | |
| Simon Schama | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Jonathan Silver | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1992 | |
| August Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1992 | |
| Robert Arneson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1991 | |
| Edgar Bowers | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Chuck Close | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1991 | |
| Christopher Davis | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Jacob Frederic Goossen | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1991 | |
| Jaimy Gordon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Donald Harris | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1991 | |
| Rachel Ingalls | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Tania Leon | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1991 | |
| Rodolfo Machado | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1991 | |
| Harry Mathews | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| J.D. McClatchy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Albert F. Moritz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Arthur Osver | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1991 | |
| James Schevill | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1991 | |
| Jorge Silvetti | Arts and Letters Award | Architecture | 1991 | |
| Shirley Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1991 | |
| Nicholas C. K. Thorne | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1991 | |
| William T. Wiley | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1991 | |
| M.H. Abrams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Samuel Adler | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1990 | |
| Mel Bochner | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1990 | |
| Stephen De Staebler | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1990 | |
| Rick DeMarinis | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Andrew Forge | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1990 | |
| Lee Scott Goldstein | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1990 | |
| Debora Greger | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Rachel Hadas | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Shelby Hearon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Yvonne Jacquette | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1990 | |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| David Lehman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Gerald Levinson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1990 | |
| Edmund S. Morgan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1990 | |
| Catherine Murphy | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1990 | |
| David Evan Thomas | Arts and Letters Award | 1990 | ||
| Stanley Wolfe | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1990 | |
| John Corigliano | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1989 | |
| Rackstraw Downes | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1989 | |
| Richard Ford | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Michael Gandolfi | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1989 | |
| Martin Greenberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Ron Hansen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Willy Heeks | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1989 | |
| Karel Husa | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1989 | |
| Henrietta Mantooth | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1989 | |
| Herbert Morris | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Gregory Rabassa | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Shulamit Ran | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1989 | |
| Joseph Santore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1989 | |
| David R. Slavitt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Arturo Vivante | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Joy Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1989 | |
| Helen Miranda Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1989 | |
| William Barrett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| David Bottoms | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| Christopher Brown | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1988 | |
| Rosellen Brown | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| David Cope | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| James DeMartino | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1988 | |
| Susan Hauptman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1988 | |
| John Clellon Holmes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| Fred Lerdahl | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1988 | |
| John McCormick | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| James Seay | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| Hale Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1988 | |
| Chinary Ung | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1988 | |
| William Weaver | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| Norman Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1988 | |
| Maurice Wright | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1988 | |
| Albert York | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1988 | |
| Daisy Youngblood | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1988 | |
| Hugh Aitken | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1987 | |
| Thomas E. Barker | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1987 | |
| William Beckman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1987 | |
| Gretna Campbell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1987 | |
| Evan S. Connell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Charles Griffin Farr | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1987 | |
| Ernest J. Gaines | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Joel H. Hoffman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1987 | |
| Ralph Manheim | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Sandra McPherson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Steven Millhauser | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Brian O'Leary | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1987 | |
| Robert Phillips | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Dennis Riley | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1987 | |
| Roger Shattuck | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1987 | |
| Kenneth Snelson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1987 | |
| Pat Adams | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1986 | |
| Russell Banks | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Gregory Botts | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1986 | |
| Martin Boykan | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1986 | |
| Martin Brody | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1986 | |
| Frederick Busch | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Robert A. Caro | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Lois Dodd | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1986 | |
| Paul Georges | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1986 | |
| Robert Kelly | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Barry Lopez | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| David Mamet | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Marsha Norman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Wayne Peterson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1986 | |
| Lowell Reiland | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1986 | |
| Lore Segal | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1986 | |
| Sheila Silver | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1986 | |
| James Bohary | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1985 | |
| Gheorghe Costinescu | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1985 | |
| Alan Dugan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| Donald J. Erb | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1985 | |
| Maria Irene Fornes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| George Garrett | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| Kim Jones | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1985 | |
| Carolyn Kizer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| John Stewart McLennan | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1985 | |
| Scott Pfaffman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1985 | |
| Ezra Sims | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1985 | |
| Gilbert Sorrentino | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| George Sugarman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1985 | |
| Esteban Vicente | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1985 | |
| Paul West | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| John Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| Paul Zimmer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1985 | |
| Alice Adams | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1984 | |
| Herman Cherry | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1984 | |
| Amy Clampitt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| James Dashow | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1984 | |
| Don DeLillo | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| Donna Dennis | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1984 | |
| Sanford Friedman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| Robert Hass | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| Lincoln Kirstein | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| William Kraft | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1984 | |
| Romulus Linney | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| Bobbie Ann Mason | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| John Melby | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1984 | |
| Craig Nova | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1984 | |
| Nathan Oliveira | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1984 | |
| Tony Rosenthal | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1984 | |
| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1984 | |
| Carl Andre | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1983 | |
| Jennifer Bartlett | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1983 | |
| Alfred Corn | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Stephen Dixon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| William Thomas McKinley | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1983 | |
| Robert Mezey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Mary Oliver | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| David Plante | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Bernard Rands | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1983 | |
| Susan Rothenberg | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1983 | |
| Angelo Savelli | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1983 | |
| Bruce Saylor | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1983 | |
| Michael C. Spafford | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1983 | |
| George Starbuck | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Leo Steinberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Joan Tower | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1983 | |
| Edmund White | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1983 | |
| Douglas Allanbrok | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1982 | |
| David H. Bradley, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| Nizette Brennan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| Frederick Buechner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| Michael David | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| MacDonald Harris | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1982 | |
| Daryl Hine | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| Josephine Jacobsen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| Donald Keene | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| George McNeil | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| Alan Motch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| Manuel Neri | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| Berton Roueche | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| Robert Stone | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1982 | |
| James Tenney | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1982 | |
| George Walker | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1982 | |
| Ramon Zupko | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1982 | |
| John Duff | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1981 | |
| Edwin Dugger | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1981 | |
| Friedel Dzubas | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1981 | |
| Robert Erickson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1981 | |
| Louise Gluck | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Gail Godwin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Mimi Gross | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1981 | |
| Meyer Kupferman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1981 | |
| Ursula Mamlok | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1981 | |
| Leo Manso | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1981 | |
| Howard Frank Mosher | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| James Salter | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Elizabeth Sewell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| William Stafford | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Jane Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1981 | |
| Hilma Wolitzer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Jay Wright | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1981 | |
| Richard Anuszkiewicz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1980 | |
| Ann Beattie | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| William Dickey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Edward Dugmore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1980 | |
| Paul Fussell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Donald Grantham | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1980 | |
| Maxine Kumin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Marion Lerner Levine | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1980 | |
| Howard Newman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1980 | |
| Eugene O'Brien | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1980 | |
| George Oppen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Malcolm Peyton | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1980 | |
| Robert Pinsky | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Lewis Thomas | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Charmion von Wiegand | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1980 | |
| Lawrence L. Widdoes | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1980 | |
| Larry Woiwode | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1980 | |
| Fletcher Benton | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1979 | |
| Paul Chihara | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1979 | |
| Arlene Croce | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Randall Deihl | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1979 | |
| Vivian Fine | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1979 | |
| Barry Hannah | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Anne Healy | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1979 | |
| Wolf Kahn | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1979 | |
| Arthur Levine | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1979 | |
| James McConkey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| John Morris | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Robert M. Pirsig | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Richard Poirier | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Philip Schultz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Dave Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1979 | |
| Robert Starer | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1979 | |
| Morton Subotnick | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1979 | |
| Renata Adler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| William Arrowsmith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Lerone Bennett, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Wallace Berry | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1978 | |
| Curtis O.B. Curtis-Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1978 | |
| Terrence Des Pres | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| William Dole | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Leslie Epstein | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Michael Herr | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Murray Kempton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Alison Lurie | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Daniel Maloney | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Herman Maril | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Richard McDermott Miller | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Toni Morrison | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Sara Roszak | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Elie Siegmeister | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1978 | |
| Page Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1978 | |
| Richard Swift | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1978 | |
| Reuben Tam | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| Ulfert Wilke | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1978 | |
| A.R. Ammons | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Walter J. Bate | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Harold Blumenfeld | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1977 | |
| Nina Bohlen | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| Paul Cooper | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1977 | |
| Alan Gussow | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| Paul Lansky | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1977 | |
| Cynthia Macdonald | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Alex Markhoff | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| Joseph McElroy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| John McPhee | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| George Perle | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1977 | |
| Paul Resika | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| Fritz Scholder | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| James Schuyler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Susan Smyly | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1977 | |
| Paul Theroux | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Anne Tyler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Robert Watson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Charles Wright | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1977 | |
| Dominick Argento | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1976 | |
| Judith Brown | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Robert Coover | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Robert Craft | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| E.L. Doctorow | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Eugene D. Genovese | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Gregory Gillespie | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Robert Helps | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1976 | |
| William Kienbusch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Kenneth Koch | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Julio F. Larraz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Robert Hall Lewis | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1976 | |
| Anthony Padovano | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Charles Simic | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| John Simon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Sidney Simon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Louis Simpson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Susan Sontag | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Richard Wernick | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1976 | |
| Joseph Wolins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1976 | |
| Louis Zukovsky | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1976 | |
| Calvin Albert | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| Harry Bertoia | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| William S. Burroughs | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Marc-Antonio Consoli | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1975 | |
| Charles Dodge | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1975 | |
| J.P. Donleavy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Barbara Falk | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| John Gardner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| William H. Gass | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Claus Hoie | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| Leonid | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| Terrence McNally | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Tillie Olsen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Seymour Pearlstein | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| John Peck | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Daniel Perlongo | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1975 | |
| Mark Strand | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| William Talbot | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1975 | |
| Colin M. Turnbull | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Helen Hennessy Vendler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1975 | |
| Christian Wolff | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1975 | |
| Ann Cornelisen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Stanley Elkin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Richard Felciano | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1974 | |
| Perle Fine | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Richard Fleischner | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Marilynn Gelfman-Pereira | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| George Griffin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Nancy Grossman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Elizabeth Hardwick | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Josephine Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Donald Justice | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Ibram Lassaw | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Charlotte Park | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1974 | |
| Raoul Pleskow | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1974 | |
| David Rabe | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Phillip Rhodes | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1974 | |
| Charles Rosen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Sam Shepard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| James Tate | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Henry Van Dyke | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Lanford Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1974 | |
| Olly W. Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1974 | |
| Rudolf Baranik | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Marius Bewley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Maeve Brennan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Irving Feldman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Frances Fitzgerald | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Leon Golub | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Robert Grosvenor | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Raoul Hague | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| John C. Heiss | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1973 | |
| Dorothy Hughes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Michio Ihara | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Betsy Jolas | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1973 | |
| Barbara Kolb | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1973 | |
| Philip Levine | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Daniel P. Mannix | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Clement Meadmore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Cynthia Ozick | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Philip Pearlstein | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1973 | |
| Jonathan Schell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Curry Tison Street | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1973 | |
| Austin Warren | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1973 | |
| Richard Aakre | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Varujan Boghosian | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Earle Brown | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1972 | |
| Lowry Burgess | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Harry Crews | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Peter Davison | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| John Eaton | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1972 | |
| Paula Fox | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Mary Frank | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Maud F. Gatewood | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Penelope Gilliatt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Pauline Hanson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| John Harbison | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1972 | |
| Michael S. Harper | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Israel Horovitz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Walter Kerr | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Gilbert Rogin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Herman Rose | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| William Overton Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1972 | |
| Ann Stanford | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1972 | |
| Anton Van Dalen | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1972 | |
| Wendell Berry | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Ilya Bolotowsky | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Stanley Burnshaw | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Martin Duberman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Ronald L. Fair | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Robert Goodnough | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Charles Gordone | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Sydney P. Hodkinson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1971 | |
| Barbara Howes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Arthur Kopit | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Fred Lerdahl | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1971 | |
| Alfred Leslie | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Norman Lewis | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Leonard Michaels | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Leonard Nathan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Reynolds Price | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Roger Reynolds | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1971 | |
| Loren Rush | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1971 | |
| Ludwig Sander | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Wilfred Sheed | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1971 | |
| Hedda Sterne | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| Harold Tovish | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1971 | |
| William Albright | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1970 | |
| Leland Bell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Charles F. Cajori | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Kenneth Campbell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Giorgio Cavallon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Ralston Crawford | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Allan D'Arcangelo | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| Arnold Elston | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1970 | |
| Morton Feldman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1970 | |
| Brewster Ghiselin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Gordon S. Haight | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Richard Howard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Pauline Kael | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Jerzy Kosinski | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| James A. McPherson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| N. Scott Momaday | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Grace Paley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| F.D. Reeve | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1970 | |
| Harvey Weiss | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1970 | |
| George Balch Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1970 | |
| Lennart Anderson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| John Ashbery | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1969 | |
| Michael Brozen | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1969 | |
| William Christopher | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Jacob Druckman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1969 | |
| George P. Elliott | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1969 | |
| Frank Gallo | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Allen Ginsberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1969 | |
| Leonel Gongora | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Red Grooms | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Sidney J. Hurwitz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Ben Kamihira | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Hugh Kenner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1969 | |
| Alice Neel | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1969 | |
| Nicolas Roussakis | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1969 | |
| L.E. Sissman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1969 | |
| Claudio Spies | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1969 | |
| Robert Birmelin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1968 | |
| John Malcolm Brinnin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Kenneth Callahan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1968 | |
| Fred Chappell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| David Del Tredici | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1968 | |
| Reuel Denney | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| William Flanagan | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1968 | |
| Leon Goldin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1968 | |
| Joe Lasker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1968 | |
| Howard Moss | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| John Frederick Nims | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Julia Randall | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Ned Rorem | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1968 | |
| Vincent D. Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1968 | |
| Richard G. Stern | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Eleanor Ross Taylor | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Francis Thorne | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1968 | |
| Elbert Weinberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Charles Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1968 | |
| Philip Booth | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Byron Burford | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Hortense Calisher | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| George H. Crumb | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1967 | |
| Jared French | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Stephen Greene | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Daniel Hoffman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Stanley Edgar Hyman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Leo Kenney | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Bernard M.W. Knox | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Dennis Leon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Donald Martino | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1967 | |
| Julian Orbon | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1967 | |
| Walker Percy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Hugh Townley | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| Louis Tytell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1967 | |
| David Wagoner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1967 | |
| Charles Wuorinen | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1967 | |
| William Alfred | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Walter Aschaffenburg | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1966 | |
| John Barth | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Romare Bearden | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| Lee Bontecou | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| Carroll Cloar | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| James Dickey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Shirley Hazzard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Josephine Herbst | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Richard Hoffman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1966 | |
| Edwin Honig | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Ray Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| Ezio Martinelli | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| John MacIvor Perkins | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1966 | |
| Karl Schrag | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| Ralph Shapey | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1966 | |
| Gary Snyder | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| M.B. Tolson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1966 | |
| Richard Claude Ziemann | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1966 | |
| Sigmund Abeles | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| Ben Belitt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Robert Bly | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| J.V. Cunningham | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Mario Davidovsky | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1965 | |
| Lee Gatch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| David V. Hayes | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| Gerald Humel | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1965 | |
| Earl Kim | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1965 | |
| Denise Levertov | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Richard Mayhew | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| Joseph Mitchell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Elliot Offner | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| P.M. Pasinetti | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Joyce Reopel | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| Henry Roth | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Harvey Sollberger | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1965 | |
| Thomas Stearns | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1965 | |
| Harvey Swados | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1965 | |
| Lionel Abel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Dorothy Baker | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Leslie Bassett | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1964 | |
| Gordon Binkerd | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1964 | |
| Thomas B. Cornell | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1964 | |
| Norman Fruchter | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Thom Gunn | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Edward J. Hill | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Eric Hoffer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| David Ignatow | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Reuben Kramer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Michael Mazur | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Hall Overton | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1964 | |
| Bernard Perlin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Julia Perry | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1964 | |
| Kenneth Rexroth | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1964 | |
| Sarai Sherman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Charles Wells | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1964 | |
| Harold Altman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Richard Bankowsky | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| Wolfgang Behl | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Elmer Bischoff | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Wen-chung Chou | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1963 | |
| Jan Doubrava | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| William Gaddis | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| Joseph Heller | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| John Hollander | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| William Humphrey | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| Peter Matthiessen | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| James McGarrell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Mel Powell | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1963 | |
| Raymond Saunders | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Russell Smith | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1963 | |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1963 | |
| Richard Yates | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1963 | |
| Karl Zerbe | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1963 | |
| Ernst Bacon | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1962 | |
| Robert M. Broderson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| Nicolai Cikovsky | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| Richard Diebenkorn | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| Seymour Drumlevitch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| Camilo Egas | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| Daniel Fuchs | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| Dimitri Hadzi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| John Hawkes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| Galway Kinnell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| John La Montaine | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1962 | |
| Edwin O'Connor | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| Frank O'Connor | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| Bernard Reder | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1962 | |
| George Rochberg | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1962 | |
| William Sydeman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1962 | |
| Joan Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| John A. Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1962 | |
| Leonard Baskin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Paul Cadmus | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Ramiro Cortes | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1961 | |
| Edward Dahlberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Jean Garrigue | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Kahlil Gibran | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Philip Grausman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Mark Harris | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| David McCord | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Warren Miller | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Brian Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Walter Murch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Howard Nemerov | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1961 | |
| Gregorio Prestopino | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Joseph Solman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1961 | |
| Halsey Stevens | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1961 | |
| Lester Trimble | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1961 | |
| Yehudi Wyner | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1961 | |
| Arthur Berger | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1960 | |
| Easley Blackwood | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1960 | |
| Marvin Cherney | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| Chen Chi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| Irving Howe | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| Eugene Ludins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| Norman Mailer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| Salvatore Martirano | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1960 | |
| Wright Morris | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| Adrienne Cecile Rich | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1960 | |
| Philip Roth | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| Gunther Schuller | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1960 | |
| Rhoda Sherbell | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| W.D. Snodgrass | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| May Swenson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1960 | |
| George Tooker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| Walter Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1960 | |
| Milton Babbitt | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1959 | |
| John Bavicchi | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1959 | |
| Mark Bucci | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1959 | |
| Truman Capote | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Jose de Rivera | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Frank Duncan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Leon Edel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Ruth Gikow | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| John Guerin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Minna Harkavy | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Charles Jackson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Nathaniel Kaz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| James Kearns | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Stanley Kunitz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Noel Lee | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1959 | |
| Conrad Richter | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| James Wright | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1959 | |
| Charles H. Alston | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| David Aronson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| Al Blaustein | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| Arnold Franchetti | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1958 | |
| Joseph Frank | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| Herbert Gold | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| Hunter Johnson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1958 | |
| Herbert Katzman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| Billy Jim Layton | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1958 | |
| R.W.B. Lewis | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| Seymour Lipton | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| William Maxwell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| William Meredith | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| James Purdy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| Francis Steegmuller | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1958 | |
| Jack Zajac | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1958 | |
| Leslie Fiedler | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| Robert Fitzgerald | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| Lukas Foss | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1957 | |
| John Heliker | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| Lee Hoiby | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1957 | |
| Jonah Kinigstein | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| Mary McCarthy | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| W.S. Merwin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| Flannery O'Connor | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| Kenzo Okada | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| Robert Pack | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1957 | |
| Anne Poor | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| Hugo Robus | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| Seymour Shifrin | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1957 | |
| Polygnotos Vagis | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1957 | |
| James Baldwin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| John Cheever | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Henry Di Spirito | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| Philip Evergood | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| Ross Lee Finney | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1956 | |
| Morris Graves | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| Chaim Gross | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| Henry Russell Hitchcock | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Joseph Kerman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Barbara Lekberg | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| Josephine Miles | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Robert Moevs | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1956 | |
| Jacques Louis Monod | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1956 | |
| Priscilla Robertson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Frank Rooney | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1956 | |
| Theodoros Stamos | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1956 | |
| George Beattie | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Henry Brant | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1955 | |
| Richard Eberhart | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| Irving Fine | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1955 | |
| Robert Horan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| Hazel Janicki | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Chester Kallman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| William Krasner | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| Julian Levi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Milton Lott | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| Zygmunt Menkes | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Mitchell Siporin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Albert Stewart | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Sahl Swarz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1955 | |
| Adolph Weiss | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1955 | |
| Morton D. Zabel | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1955 | |
| Hannah Arendt | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| Ray Bradbury | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| Virginia Cuthbert | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Ingolf Dahl | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1954 | |
| Koren DerHarootian | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Edwin Dickinson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Hazard Durfee | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Antonio Frasconi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Richmond Lattimore | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| Colin McPhee | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1954 | |
| David Riesman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| David K. Rubins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1954 | |
| Ruthven Todd | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| Hugo Weisgall | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1954 | |
| C. Vann Woodward | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1954 | |
| Eric Bentley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Hyman Bloom | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Isabel Bolton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Albino Cavallito | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Richard Chase | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Francis Fergusson | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Peggy Glanville-Hicks | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1953 | |
| Roger Goeb | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1953 | |
| Paul Goodman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Jacob Lawrence | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Nikolai Lopatnikoff | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1953 | |
| William Palmer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Carl M. Schultheiss | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Delmore Schwartz | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1953 | |
| Francis Speight | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1953 | |
| Saul Bellow | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| Clara Fasano | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Alfred Hayes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| H.L. Kammerer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Robert Kurka | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1952 | |
| John Lessard | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1952 | |
| Edward Melcarth | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Theodore Roethke | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| Doris Rosenthal | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Elizabeth Spencer | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| Walter Stuempfig | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Howard Swanson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1952 | |
| Peter Taylor | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| Charles White | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1952 | |
| Yvor Winters | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1952 | |
| Newton Arvin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| Saul Baizerman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Elizabeth Bishop | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| Louise Bogan | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| Lu Duble | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Joseph Floch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Brendan Gill | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| Xavier Gonzalez | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Alan Hovhaness | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1951 | |
| Randall Jarrell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| Leon Kirchner | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1951 | |
| Peppino Mangravite | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Vladimir Nabokov | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1951 | |
| William Thon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1951 | |
| Frank Wigglesworth | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1951 | |
| John Berryman | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Paul Bowles | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Elliott Carter | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1950 | |
| Jean De Marco | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Lamar Dodd | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Sue Fuller | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Maxwell David Geismar | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Caroline Gordon | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Shirley Graham | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Peter Hopkins | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Andrew W. Imbrie | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1950 | |
| Bruno Mankowski | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Hyam Plutzik | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1950 | |
| Ben Weber | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1950 | |
| Sol Wilson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1950 | |
| Leonie Adams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| James Agee | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| John Cage | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1949 | |
| Joseph Campbell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| Federico Castellon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| Carl Hall | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| Alfred Kazin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| Henry Kreis | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| John McCrady | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| Vincent McHugh | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| Louis Mennini | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1949 | |
| William Pachner | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| James Stern | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1949 | |
| Harry Wickey | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1949 | |
| Stefan Wolpe | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1949 | |
| Louis Bosa | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Bertolt Brecht | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| Robert H. Cook, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Henry Cowell | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1948 | |
| Stephen Csoka | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Dudley Fitts | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| Philip Guston | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Lou Harrison | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1948 | |
| Harry Levin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| Oronzio Maldarelli | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Vincent Persichetti | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1948 | |
| James F. Powers | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| Genevieve Taggard | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| Allen Tate | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1948 | |
| John W. Taylor | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1948 | |
| Nelson Algren | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Peter Blume | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| Eleanor Clark | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Lloyd Frankenberg | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Dorothea Greenbaum | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| Alexei Haieff | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1947 | |
| Joseph Hirsch | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| Victoria Hutson Huntley | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| Mitchell Jamieson | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| Ulysses Kay | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1947 | |
| Normand Lockwood | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1947 | |
| Robert Lowell | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Elizabeth Parsons | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Carl Schmitz | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1947 | |
| James Still | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1947 | |
| Richmond Barthe | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Marc Blitzstein | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Kenneth Burke | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Malcolm Cowley | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Peter De Vries | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Norman Dello Joio | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| Louis Guglielmi | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Robert Gwathmey | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Rosella Hartman | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Langston Hughes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Arthur Laurents | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Jack Levine | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Otto Luening | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| Peter Mennin | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| Marianne Craig Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Robert Palmer | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| Harry Rosin | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Concetta Scaravaglione | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Zoltan Sepeshy | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1946 | |
| Irwin Shaw | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1946 | |
| Robert E. Ward | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1946 | |
| William Bergsma | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1945 | |
| Peter Dalton | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Donald De Lue | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Kenneth Fearing | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Feike Feikema | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Jerzy Fitelberg | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1945 | |
| Vincent Glinsky | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Alexander Greendale | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Edward Laning | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Gian Carlo Menotti | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1945 | |
| Norman Rosten | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Andree Ruellan | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Raphael Soyer | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1945 | |
| Jean Stafford | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Marguerite Young | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1945 | |
| Nicolai Berezowsky | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1944 | |
| Janet De Coux | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| David Leo Diamond | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1944 | |
| Hugo Ignotus | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Jeremy Ingalls | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Charles Locke | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| Berta Margoulies | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| Burrill Phillips | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1944 | |
| Eleanor Platt | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| Charles Rudy | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| Thomas Sancton | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Karl Shapiro | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Eudora Welty | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Esther Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1944 | |
| Tennessee Williams | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1944 | |
| Isabel Bishop | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1943 | |
| Paul Creston | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1943 | |
| Hugh Ferris | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1943 | |
| Virgil Geddes | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1943 | |
| Gertrude K. Lathrop | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1943 | |
| Carson McCullers | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1943 | |
| Bruce Moore | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1943 | |
| William Schuman | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1943 | |
| Jose Garcia Villa | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1943 | |
| Joseph Wittlin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1943 | |
| Peggy Bacon | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1942 | |
| Hermann Broch | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1942 | |
| Norman Corwin | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1942 | |
| Bernard Herrmann | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1942 | |
| Donal Hord | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1942 | |
| Edward Margetson | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1942 | |
| Edgar Lee Masters | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1942 | |
| Robert McBride | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1942 | |
| Cathal B. O'Toole | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1942 | |
| Muriel Rukeyser | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1942 | |
| Mary M. Colum | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1941 | |
| Jon Corbino | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1941 | |
| Arthur Lee | Arts and Letters Award | Art | 1941 | |
| Soc. for the Pub. of Amer. Music | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1941 | |
| Jesse Stuart | Arts and Letters Award | Literature | 1941 | |
| Frederick Woltmann | Arts and Letters Award | Music | 1941 | |
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