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American literary award
The Emerson-Thoreau Medal is a literary prize awarded by the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences to persons for their total literary achievement in the broad field of literature rather than for a specific work. Established in 1958, the prize is given at the discretion of the Council of the Academy on the recommendation of a nominating committee.
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Recipients of the Emerson-Thoreau Medal
1958
Robert Frost (poet)
1959
Thomas Stearns Eliot (poet, critic, playwright)
1960
Henry Beston (naturalist, countryman, author)
1961
Samuel Eliot Morison (biographer, historian, scholar)
1962
Katherine Anne Porter (novelist)
1963
Mark Van Doren (poet, critic, teacher)
1965
Lewis Mumford (teacher, critic, philosopher)
1966
Edmund Wilson (critic, man of letters)
1967
Joseph Wood Krutch (critic, biographer, naturalist)
1968
John Crowe Ransom (poet, critic, man of letters)
1969
Hannah Arendt (social and political historian and philosopher)
1970
I. A. Richards (poet, critic, teacher of critics)
1975
Robert Penn Warren (novelist, poet, critic, teacher)
1977
Saul Bellow (teacher, novelist, critic of society)
1979
James T. Farrell (novelist, critic, essayist)
1989
Norman Mailer (novelist, critic, man of letters)
2013
Philip Roth (novelist and memoirist)
2016
Toni Morrison (novelist)
2019
Margaret Atwood (poet)
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References
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"Academy Prizes" . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from
the original on 5 November 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2011 .
^ John Zubizarreta. The Robert Frost encyclopedia , Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.
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