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| The Mildred and Harold Strauss Livings | ||||
| A bequest from Mildred and Harold Strauss in 1981 established two Strauss Living funds that provide two writers of English prose literature an annual stipend of $50,000 for a period of five years to enable them to devote their time exclusively to writing. | ||||
| Name | Award | Year | ||
| Madison Smartt Bell | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 2008 | ||
| William T. Vollmann | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 2008 | ||
| Gish Jen | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 2003 | ||
| Claire Messud | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 2003 | ||
| Marilynne Robinson | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1998 | ||
| W.D. Wetherell | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1998 | ||
| John Casey | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1993 | ||
| Joy Williams | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1993 | ||
| Diane Johnson | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1988 | ||
| Robert Stone | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1988 | ||
| Raymond Carver | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1983 | ||
| Cynthia Ozick | Mildred and Harold Strauss Living | 1983 | ||
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