Fiction, Novel, Short Story
- 2007 — John Updike
- 2001 — Philip Roth
- 1995 — William Maxwell
- 1989 — Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1982 — Bernard Malamud
- 1978 — Peter Taylor
- 1977 — Saul Bellow
- 1972 — Eudora Welty
- 1962 — William Faulkner
- 1957 — John Dos Passos
- 1952 — Thornton Wilder
- 1944 — Willa Cather
- 1933 — Booth Tarkington
- 1929 — Edith Wharton
- 1924 — Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
- 1915 — William Dean Howells
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