Award/Prize Winners
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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, Anne Enright, 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, Steve Coll, Anthony Doerr, Richard Ford, Tom Friedman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Annette Gordon-Reed, Eliza Griswold, David Halberstam, Oscar Hijuelos, David Hoffman, Adam Johnson, 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, Annette Gordon-Reed, Vartan Gregorian, James McBride, Kay Ryan, Anna Deavere Smith, Isabel Wilkerson, Abraham Verghese National Book Critics Circle Award winners:Robert A. Caro, Steve Coll, Ted Conover, Maureen Corrigan, Edwidge Danticat, 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, Tommy Orange, Samantha Power, Carol Shields, Jane Smiley, Andrew Solomon, 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, Adam Johnson, Tracy Kidder, Phil Klay, Jane Kramer, Philip Levine, Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, Peter Matthiessen, James McBride, David McCullough, Colum McCann, George Packer, W. S. Merwin, Andrew Solomon, Robert Stone, William Styron, Colson Whitehead |
 In 2002, Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy spoke at SVWC about his novel ROSCOE, a book whose cover featured six members of Albany’s political machine. Well, sometimes SVWC writers can’t resist a good spoof. So fellow speakers David Halberstam, Frank McCourt, Dave Barry, Roger Wilkins and David McCullough linked arms in the style of Albany’s notorious politicians and dubbed themselves RASCALS. |