Belles Lettres, Criticism, Essays
- 2011 — Eric Bentley
- 2005 — Joan Didion
- 1999 — Harold Bloom
- 1993 — Elizabeth Hardwick
- 1987 — Jacques Barzun
- 1981 — Malcolm Cowley
- 1975 — Kenneth Burke
- 1965 — Walter Lippmann
- 1960 — E. B. White
- 1955 — Edmund Wilson
- 1950 — H. L. Mencken
- 1946 — Van Wyck Brooks
- 1935 — Agnes Repplier
- 1925 — William Crary Brownell
- 1916 — John Burroughs
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