"National Book Award winner"

Philip Roth male, 76 years old: writer, novelist, Jewish American, American, Portnoy's Complaint, I Married a Communist…Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, NationalBookAwardwinner, Sidewise Award winning author; Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame for the 1959 collection...

Adrienne Rich female, 80 years old: American women writer, Radcliffe College alumni, tax resister, LGBT writer, Bisexual, from the United States…NationalBookAwardwinner; Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929.

Stanley Kunitz male, deceased (2006): American Poet Laureate, Lithuanian-American, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Harvard University alumni, Centenarian, from Massachusetts…United States National Medal of Arts recipient, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, NationalBookAwardwinner; Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in...

Bernard Malamud male, deceased (1986) (New York, United States): Oregon State University faculty, Jewish, City University of New York, The Tenants, novelist, yiddish…NationalBookAwardwinner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner; Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer.

John Updike male, 77 years old: Pennsylvania writer, Massachusetts writer, Literary critic, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, rabbit…NationalBookAwardwinner, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, O. Henry Award winner; John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit,...

William Faulkner male, deceased (1962): novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature, Mississippi writer, American, Stream of consciousness writing, non-linear…NationalBookAwardwinner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner; William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most...

Nancy Farmer female, 68 years old: science fiction writer, Children's literature, Young adult literature, fantasy writer, Newbery Honor winner, children's writer…NationalBookAwardwinner; Nancy Farmer, in Phoenix, Arizona, is an acclaimed children's and young adult literature author from the United States. Farmer did not start...

Saul Bellow male, deceased (2005) (Princeton, New Jersey, United States): Solomon Bellows, Russian-American, Canadian of Russian descent, From Montreal, Canadian, Former Trotskyist…National Medal of Arts, O. Henry Award winner, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, NationalBookAwardwinner; Saul Bellow, born Solomon Bellows, (Lachine, Quebec, Canada, June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was an acclaimed...

Ralph Ellison male, deceased (1994): Tuskegee University alumni, African-American, New York writer, music critic, Essayist, invisible man…NationalBookAwardwinner, United States National Medal of Arts recipient; Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 - April 16, 1994) was a scholar and writer. He was born Ralph Waldo Ellison in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, named by his...

Walker Percy male, deceased (1990) (Birmingham, Alabama, United States): Christian, Columbia Medical School alumni, Sigma Alpha Epsilon brother, novelist, from Louisiana, writer…NationalBookAwardwinner; Walker Percy (May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990) was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known...

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