Award/Prize Winners
Below is a list of extraordinary SVWC alumni who have received literary accolades over the years. Click HERE for a full list of our past presenters. The Man Booker Prize winners:Margaret Atwood, Thomas Keneally, Ian McEwan, Michael Ondaatje, Barry Unsworth Pulitzer Prize winners:Liaquat Ahamed, Rick Atkinson, Dave Barry, A. Scott Berg, Robert A. Caro, Michael Chabon, Anthony Doerr, Richard Ford, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Annette Gordon-Reed, David Halberstam, Oscar Hijuelos, Haynes Johnson, David Kennedy, William Kennedy, Tracy Kidder, Ted Kooser, Philip Levine, Tyler Marshall, Frank McCourt, David McCullough, W. S. Merwin, Jack Miles, Gretchen Morgenson, Joe Morgenstern, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Paul Muldoon, Caryle Murphy, Sharon Olds, Samantha Power, Anna Quindlen, Kay Ryan, Stacy Schiff, Carol Shields, Jane Smiley, Mark Stevens, William Styron, Annalyn Swan, Natasha Trethewey, Colson Whitehead, Isabel Wilkerson, Roger Wilkins, Edward O. Wilson, James Wright, Lawrence Wright National Humanities Medal recipients:Richard Brookhiser, Robert A. Caro, E. L. Doctorow, Vartan Gregorian, James McBride, Kay Ryan, Isabel Wilkerson, Abraham Verghese National Book Critics Circle Award winners:Robert A. Caro, Ted Conover, E. L. Doctorow, Michael Dorris, Sheri Fink, Edward Hirsch, Philip Gourevitch, Paul Hendrickson, William Kennedy, Jonathan Lethem, Philip Levine, Frank McCourt, Ian McEwan, Sharon Olds, Samantha Power, Carol Shields, Jane Smiley, Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan, Lawrence Weschler, Isabel Wilkerson, Lawrence Wright National Book Award winners:A. Scott Berg, Robert A. Caro, E. L. Doctorow, Timothy Egan, James Fallows, Annette Gordon-Reed, Tracy Kidder, Jane Kramer, Philip Levine, Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, Peter Matthiessen, James McBride, David McCullough, Colum McCann, George Packer, W. S. Merwin, Robert Stone, William Styron, Colson Whitehead |
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