John Steinbeck (1979) (#1773)
Edith Wharton (1980) (#1832)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1983) (#2047)
Herman Melville (1984) (#2094)
T.S. Eliot (1986) (#2239)
William Faulkner (1987) (#2350)
Ernest Hemingway (1989) (#2418)
Marianne Moore (1990) (#2449)
William Saroyan (1991) (#2538)
Dorothy Parker (1992) (#2698)
James Thurber (1994) (#2862)
Tennessee Williams (1995) (#3002)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1996) (#3104)
Thornton Wilder (1997) (#3134)
Stephen Vincent Benét (1998) (#3221)
Thomas Wolfe (2000) (#3444)
Ogden Nash (2002) (#3659)
Zora Neale Hurston (2003) (#3748)
James Baldwin (2004) (#3871)
Robert Penn Warren (2005) (#3904)
Katherine Anne Porter (2006) (#4030)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2007) (#4124)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2008) (#4223)
Richard Wright (2009) (#4386)
Julia de Burgos (2010) (#TBD)
