Awards and Recognition
Named Poetry Consultant of the Library of Congress from 1950–1952, Conrad Aiken earned numerous prestigious national writing awards, including a National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal and the National Medal for Literature. Honored by his native state in 1973 with the title of Poet Laureate, Aiken will always be remembered in his native state as the first Georgia-born author to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1930, for his Selected Poems.
Aiken was the first winner of the Poetry Society of America (PSA) Shelley Memorial Award in 1929.
In 2009, The Library of America selected Aiken’s 1931 story "Mr. Arcularis" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales.
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