St. Louis Literary Award

The St. Louis Literary Award has been presented yearly since 1967 to a distinguished figure in literature. It is sponsored by the Saint Louis University Library Associates.

Winners

Past Recipients of the Award:^[1]

2016 Michael Ondaatje[2] 2015 David Grossman[3] 2014 Jeanette Winterson 2013 [no award] 2012 Tony Kushner 2011 Mario Vargas Llosa 2010 Don DeLillo 2009 Sir Salman Rushdie 2008 E. L. Doctorow 2007 William H. Gass 2006 Michael Frayn 2005 Richard Ford 2004 Garry Wills 2003 Margaret Drabble 2002 Joan Didion 2001 Simon Schama 2000 N. Scott Momaday 1999 Chinua Achebe 1998 Seamus Heaney 1997 Stephen E. Ambrose 1996 Antonia Fraser 1995 Edward Albee 1994 Stephen Jay Gould 1993 David McCullough 1992 Shelby Foote

1991 August Wilson 1990 Tom Wolfe 1989 Richard Wilbur 1988 Joyce Carol Oates 1987 John Updike 1986 Saul Bellow 1985 Walker Percy 1984 [no award] 1983 Eudora Welty 1982 William Styron 1981 James A. Michener 1980 Arthur Miller 1979 Howard Nemerov 1978 Mortimer J. Adler 1977 Robert Penn Warren 1976 R. Buckminster Fuller 1975 John Hope Franklin 1974 Tennessee Williams 1973 James T. Farrell 1972 Francis Warner 1971 Barbara Tuchman 1970 W. H. Auden 1969 George Plimpton 1968 Jacques Barzun 1967 Henry Steele Commager

References

1. "Recipients of the Saint Louis Literary Award". Retrieved May 2, 2016.
2. Jane Henderson (May 2, 2016). "Ondaatje wins St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
3. Robert H. Cohn (October 7, 2015). "Acclaimed Israeli author wins St. Louis Literary Award". St. Louis Jewish Light. Retrieved May 2, 2016.

External links

• Library Associates Website