Academy of American Poets Fellowship
Established in 1946 to reward one American poet per year
"for distinguished poetic achievement"; $20,000 stipend. | John Haines |
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Awards in Literature
Bestowed annually by the
Academy to honor and encourage
writers in their creative work;
includes $7500 prize
for each honoree. | Charles Baxter, Maureen Howard, Jayne Anne
Phillips, and Jane Smiley
In fiction
Allen Grossman
In poetry
Luc Sante
In nonfiction |
American Academy of Arts and Letters
New Members in Literature
Elected annually to fill vacancies
in the academy's membership. | Philip Levine, poet
Albert Murray, novelist
Studs Terkel, nonfiction writer |
American Book Awards
Established in 1978 by the
Before Columbus Foundation,
in recognition of the
excellence and multicultural diversity
of American writing,
to reward outstanding literary
achievement by contemporary
American authors
without restriction to
race, sex, ethnic
background, or genre. | Alurista
For Et Tu … Raza
Dorothy Barresi
For The Post-Rapture Diner
William M. Banks
For Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in
American Life
Derrick Bell
For Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land
Called Home
Thulani Davis
For Maker of Saints
Tom De Haven
For Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies
Martin Espada
For Imagine the Angels of Bread
Montserrat Fontes
For Dreams of the Centaur
Guillermo Gomez-Pena
For The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems &
Loqueras for the End of the Century
Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey
For Race Traitor
Brenda Knight
For Women of the Beat Generation |
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