Katherine Anne Porter Award
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who was elected to the Institute in 1941 and the Academy in 1966. In 2001 the trustees of the Porter estate endowed this biennial award of $20,000 to honor a prose writer whose achievements and dedication to the literary profession have been demonstrated.
Name	Award		Year
Maureen Howard	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2012
Tim O'Brien	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2010
John Edgar Wideman	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2008
Arturo Vivante	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2006
Nicholson Baker	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2004
Lynn Freed	Katherine Anne Porter Award		2002