The American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal - Fiction, Novel, Short Story

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Since 1909 the Academy has awarded Gold Medals for distinguished achievement in several different categories of the arts. Beginning in 1950, the Academy has awarded two medals a year in the rotating categories of Belles Lettres and Criticism, and Painting; Biography and Music; Fiction and Sculpture; History and Architecture, including Landscape Architecture; Poetry and Music; and Drama and Graphic Art. Gold Medals are given for the entire work of the recipient, therefore this is a list of people.

  1. 2007
    John Updike

  2. 2001
    Philip Roth

  3. 1995
    William Maxwell

  4. 1989
    Isaac Bashevis Singer

  5. 1983
    Bernard Malamud

  6. 1978
    Peter Taylor

  7. 1977
    Saul Bellow

  8. 1972
    Eudora Welty

  9. 1967
    Katherine Anne Porter

  10. 1962
    William Faulkner

  11. 1957
    Dos Passos

  12. 1952
    Thornton Wilder

  13. 1944
    Willa Cather

  14. 1933
    Booth Tarkington

  15. 1924
    Edith Wharton

  16. 1915
    William Dean Howells

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Created by southernbohemian on Apr 18, 2010.
 

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