American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals - All Winners

All Winners

• 2012 — David McCullough, Biography.

• 2008 — Richard Meier, architecture.

• 2008 — Edmund S. Morgan, history.

• 2007 — John Updike, Fiction.

• 2007 — Martin Puryear, Sculpture.

• 2006 — Robert Caro, Biography.

• 2006 — Stephen Sondheim, Music.

• 2005 — Joan Didion, Belles Lettres and Criticism.

• 2005 — Jane Freilicher, Painting.

• 2004 — John Guare, Drama.

• 2004 — Chuck Close, Graphic Art.

• 2003 — W. S. Merwin, Poetry.

• 2003 — Ned Rorem, Music.

• 2002 — Frank O. Gehry, Architecture

• 2002 — John Hope Franklin, History

• 2001 — Philip Roth, Fiction

• 2001 — Richard Serra, Sculpture

• 2000 — R. W. B. Lewis, Biography

• 2000 — Lukas Foss, Music

• 1999 — Robert Rauschenberg, Painting

• 1999 — Harold Bloom, Belles Lettres

• 1998 — Horton Foote, Drama

• 1998 — Frank Stella, Graphic Art

• 1997 — John Ashbery, Poetry

• 1997 — Gunther Schuller, Music

• 1996 — Peter Gay, History

• 1996 — Philip Johnson, Architecture

• 1995 — William Maxwell, Fiction

• 1995 — George Rickey, Sculpture

• 1994 — Walter Jackson Bate, Biography

• 1994 — Hugo Weisgall, Music

• 1993 — Richard Diebenkorn, Painting

• 1993 — Elizabeth Hardwick, Belles Lettres/Criticism

• 1992 — David Levine, Graphic Art

• 1992 — Sam Shepard, Drama

• 1991 — David Diamond, Music

• 1991 — Richard Wilbur, Poetry

• 1999 — Kevin Roche, Architecture

• 1990 — C. Vann Woodward, History

• 1989 — Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture

• 1989 — Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fiction

• 1988 — Milton Babbitt, Music

• 1988 — James Thomas Flexner, Biography

• 1987 — Jacques Barzun, Belles Lettres

• 1987 — Isabel Bishop, Painting

• 1986 — Jasper Johns, Graphic Art

• 1986 — Sidney Kingsley, Drama

• 1985 — Leonard Bernstein, Music

• 1985 — Robert Penn Warren, Poetry

• 1984 — Gordon Bunshaft, Architecture

• 1984 — George F. Kennan, History

• 1983 — Louise Nevelson, Sculpture

• 1982 — William Schuman, Music

• 1982 — Francis Steegmuller, Biography

• 1982 — Bernard Malamud, Fiction

• 1981 — Malcolm Cowley, Belles Lettres

• 1981 — Raphael Soyer, Painting

• 1980 — Edward Albee, Drama

• 1980 — Peggy Bacon, Graphic Art

• 1979 — Archibald MacLeish, Poetry

• 1979 — I. M. Pei, Architecture

• 1978 — Peter Taylor, Short Story

• 1978 — Barbara W. Tuchman, History

• 1977 — Saul Bellow, Novel

• 1977 — Isamu Noguchi, Sculpture

• 1976 — Samuel Barber, Music

• 1976 — Leon Edel, Biography

• 1975 — Kenneth Burke, Belles Lettres

• 1975 — Willem De Kooning, Painting

• 1974 — Saul Steinberg, Graphic Art

• 1973 — Louis I. Kahn, Architecture

• 1973 — John Crowe Ransom, Poetry

• 1972 — Henry Steele Commager, History

• 1972 — Eudora Welty, Novel

• 1971 — Alexander Calder, Sculpture

• 1971 — Elliott Carter, Music

• 1970 — Lewis Mumford, Belles Lettres

• 1970 — Georgia O'Keeffe, Painting

• 1969 — Leonard Baskin, Graphic Art

• 1969 — Tennessee Williams, Drama

• 1968 — W. H. Auden, Poetry

• 1968 — R. Buckminster Fuller, Architecture

• 1967 — Katherine Anne Porter, Fiction

• 1967 — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., History

• 1966 — Jacques Lipchitz, Sculpture

• 1966 — Virgil Thomson, Music

• 1965 — Walter Lippmann, Essays

• 1965 — Wyeth, Painting

• 1964 — Lillian Hellman, Drama

• 1964 — Ben Shahn, Graphic Art

• 1963 — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture

• 1963 — William Carlos Williams, Poetry

• 1962 — William Faulkner, Fiction

• 1962 — Samuel Eliot Morison, History

• 1961 — Rogers H. Sessions, Music

• 1961 — William Zorach, Sculpture

• 1960 — Charles E. Burchfield, Painting

• 1960 — E. B. White, Essays

• 1959 — George Grosz, Graphic Art

• 1959 — Arthur Miller, Drama

• 1958 — Conrad Aiken, Poetry

• 1958 — Henry R. Shepley, Architecture

• 1957 — John Dos Passos, Fiction

• 1957 — Allan Nevins, History

• 1956 — Aaron Copland, Music

• 1956 — Ivan Mestrovic, Sculpture

• 1955 — Edward Hopper, Painting

• 1955 — Edmund Wilson, Essays

• 1954 — Maxwell Anderson, Drama

• 1954 — Reginald Marsh, Graphic Art

• 1953 — Marianne Moore, Poetry

• 1953 — Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecture

• 1952 — Carl Sandburg, History

• 1952 — Thornton Wilder, Fiction

• 1951 — James Earle Fraser, Sculpture

• 1951 — Igor Stravinsky, Music

• 1950 — H. L. Mencken, Essays

• 1950 — John Sloan, Painting

• 1949 — Frederick Law Olmsted, Architecture

• 1948 — Charles Austin Beard, History

• 1948 — Bruce Rogers, Graphic Arts

• 1947 — John Alden Carpenter, Music

• 1946 — Van Wyck Brooks, Essays

• 1945 — Paul Manship, Sculpture

• 1944 — Willa Cather, Fiction

• 1943 — Stephen Vincent Benet, Literature

• 1942 — Cecilia Beaux, Painting

• 1942 — Ernest Bloch, Music

• 1941 — Robert E. Sherwood, Drama

• 1940 — William Adams Delano, Architecture

• 1939 — Robert Frost, Poetry

• 1938 — Walter Damrosch, Music

• 1937 — Charles M. Andrews, History

• 1936 — George Grey Barnard, Sculpture

• 1935 — Agnes Repplier, Belles Lettres

• 1933 — Booth Tarkington, Fiction

• 1932 — Gari Melchers, Painting

• 1931 — William Gillette, Drama

• 1930 — Charles Adams Platt, Architecture

• 1930 — Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sculpture

• 1929 — Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poetry

• 1929 — Edith Wharton, Fiction

• 1928 — George W. Chadwick, Music

• 1927 — William M. Sloane, History

• 1926 — Herbert Adams, Sculpture

• 1925 — Cecilia Beaux, Painting

• 1925 — William Crary Brownell, Belles Lettres

• 1924 — Edith Wharton, Fiction

• 1923 — Edwin Howland Blashfield, Painting

• 1923 — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Fiction.

• 1922 — Eugene O'Neill, Drama

• 1921 — Cass Gilbert, Architecture

• 1919 — Charles Martin Loeffler, Music

• 1918 — William Roscoe Thayer, History

• 1917 — Daniel Chester French, Sculpture

• 1916 — John Burroughs, Belles Lettres

• 1916 — Charles William Eliot, Special distinction.

• 1915 — William Dean Howells, Fiction.

• 1914 — John Singer Sargent, Painting

• 1913 — Augustus Thomas, Drama.

• 1912 — William Rutherford Mead, Architecture.

• 1911 — James Whitcomb Riley, Poetry

• 1910 — James Ford Rhodes, History

• 1909 — Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Sculpture.