Michael Chabon (2008)

Thomas Keneally (2007)

Mark Helprin (2006)

John Grisham (2005)

David McCullough (2004)

Shelby Foote (2003)

Joyce Carol Oates (2002)

William Kennedy (2001)

William Manchester (2000)

Margaret Atwood (1999)

E.L. Doctorow (1998)

Dr. John Hope Franklin (1997)

Neil Simon (1996)

David McCullough (1995)

Ray Bradbury (1994)

Peter Matthiessen (1993)

Norman Mailer (1992)

Eudora Welty (1991)

John le Carré (1990)

Saul Bellow (1989)

Toni Morrison (1988)

John Updike (1987)

Larry McMurtry (1986)

Norman Cousins (1985)