American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals - Biography

Biography

  • 2012 — David McCullough
  • 2006 — Robert Caro
  • 2000 — R. W. B. Lewis
  • 1994 — Walter Jackson Bate
  • 1988 — James Thomas Flexner
  • 1982 — Francis Steegmuller
  • 1976 — Leon Edel

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