William Dean Howells Medal

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William Dean Howells Medal

HONOR

Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters beginning in 1915, the first recipient being William Dean Howells (the first President of the organization, former editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and one of the most prominent American men of letters in the 19th and early 20th century) himself.

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Pearl S. Buck Author 26-Jun-1892 6-Mar-1973 The Good Earth

James Gould Cozzens Novelist 19-Aug-1903 9-Aug-1978 Guard of Honor

William Faulkner Author 25-Sep-1897 6-Jul-1962 Novels set in the American South

William Dean Howells Author 1-Mar-1837 11-May-1920 The Rise of Silas Lapham

William Maxwell Novelist 16-Aug-1908 31-Jul-2000 The Folded Leaf

Thomas Pynchon Novelist 8-May-1937 Gravity's Rainbow

William Styron Novelist 11-Jun-1925 31-Oct-2006 The Confessions of Nat Turner

John Updike Novelist 18-Mar-1932 27-Jan-2009 Rabbit, Run

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