Pulitzer Prize—Drama

• The Death of a Salesman
  Arthur Miller
  1949

Pulitzer Prize—Fiction

• March
  Geraldine Brooks
  2006
• The Stone Diaries
  Carol Shields
  1995
• Ironweed
  William Kennedy
  1984
• Humboldt's Gift
  Saul Bellow
  1976
• Angle of Repose
  Wallace Stegner
  1972
• The Grapes of Wrath
  John Steinbeck
  1940
• Arrowsmith
  Sinclair Lewis
  1926
• The Age of Innocence
  Edith Wharton
  1921

Pulitzer Prize—Non Fiction

• The Lords of Finance
  Liaquat Ahamed
  2010
• Ghost Wars
  Steve Coll
  2005
• Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land
  David K. Shipler
  1987

Pulitzer Prize—Poetry

• Practical Gods
  Carl Dennis
  2002
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  John Ashbery
  1976
• Collected Poems
  Marianne Moore
  1952

Nobel Prize for Literature

• J.M. Coetzee
  2003
• Nadine Gordimer
  1991
• Saul Bellow
  1976
• Heinrich Boll
  1972
• Pablo Neruda
  1971
• John Steinbeck
  1962
• William Faulkner
  1949
• T. S. Eliot
  1948
• Andre Gide
  1947
• Herman Hesse
  1946
• Eugene O'Neill
  1936
• Sinclair Lewis
  1930
• Thomas Mann
  1929
• Sigrid Undset
  1928
• George Bernard Shaw
  1925
• William Butler Yeats
  1923
• Anatole France
  1921
• Knut Hamsun
  1920
• Rabindranath Tagore
  1913
• Rudyard Kipling
  1907

Nobel Peace Prize

• Aung San Suu Kyi
  1991

National Book Awards

• Europe Central
  William Vollman
  2005
• Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters
  Arthur Miller
  2001
• In the Heart of the Sea
  Nathaniel Philbrick
  2000
• Paris Trout
  Pete Dexter
  1988
• White Noise
  Don DeLillo
  1985
• Stones for Ibarra
  Harriet Doerr
  1984
• The Women of Brewster Place
  Gloria Naylor
  1983
• The Snow Leopard
  Peter Matthiessen
  1979
• The Spectator Bird
  Wallace Stegner
  1977
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  John Ashbery
  1976
• JR
  William Gaddis
  1976
• The Lives of a Cell
  Lewis Thomas
  1975
• Gravity's Rainbow
  Thomas Pynchon
  1974
• Mr. Sammler's Planet
  Saul Bellow
  1971
• Herzog
  Saul Bellow
  1965
• The Adventures of Augie March
  Saul Bellow
  1954

Man Booker Prize

• Disgrace
  J. M. Coetzee
  1999
• The Ghost Road
  Pat Barker
  1995
  Plume
• Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
  Roddy Doyle
  1993
• The Bone People
  Keri Hulme
  1985
• Life & Times of Michael K
  J.M. Coetzee
  1983
• The Sea, The Sea
  Iris Murdoch
  1978
• The Conservationist
  Nadine Gordimer
  1974

United States Medal of Freedom

• John Steinbeck
  1964