Since 1990, 46 of the 70 recipients of the National Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes in fiction and poetry have received Creative Writing Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Of these 46, all but three were supported by the Endowment before receiving the national award, often 10 to 20 years earlier.
Following is a chart of award winners since 1968, with the years of Literature Fellowships in parenthesis.
| NATIONAL AWARD |
AWARDEE/WORK AWARDED |
GENRE
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2008 |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Junot Diaz (U.S.-Japan 03) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Fiction |
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2007 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award |
Junot Diaz (U.S.-Japan 03) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao |
Fiction |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Natasha Trethewey (NEA 99) Native Guard
|
Poetry |
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National Book Award |
Denis Johnson (NEA 75, 81) Tree of Smoke |
Fiction |
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2006 |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Claudia Emerson (NEA 94) Late Wife |
Poetry |
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2005 |
National Book Award |
W. S. Merwin (69, 77) Migration: New and Selected Poems |
Poetry |
|
Pulitzer Prize |
Ted Kooser (76, 84) Delights and Shadows |
Poetry |
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2004 |
National Book Award |
Jean Valentine (72) Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems |
Poetry |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Edward Jones (86), The Known World
Franz Wright (85, 92) Walking to Martha's Vineyard |
Fiction
Poetry |
|
2003 |
National Book Award |
C.K. Williams (85, 93), The
Singing |
Poetry |
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| National Book Critics Circle Award |
Edward P. Jones (86), The Known World
Susan Stewart (82, 89), Columbarium |
Fiction
Poetry |
|
Pulitzer Prize |
Jeffrey Eugenides (95), Middlesex |
Fiction |
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2002 |
National Book Award |
Julia Glass (04), Three Junes |
Fiction |
|
National Book Critics Circle Award |
B.H. Fairchild (88), Early
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
Poetry |
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| Pulitzer Prize |
Carl Dennis (88), Practical
Gods |
Poetry |
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2001 |
National Book Award |
Jonathan Frazen (02)
The Corrections |
Fiction |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Albert Goldbarth (74,
79, 86) Saving Lives: Poems |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Stephen Dunn (73,
81, 89) Different Hours |
Poetry |
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2000 |
National Book Award |
Lucille Clifton (70,
73) Blessing the Boats |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
C.K. Williams (85,
93) Repair |
Poetry |
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1999 |
National Book Award |
Ai (79) Vice:
New & Selected Poems |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Michael Cunningham (88) The Hours
Mark Strand (68, 78, 86) Blizzard of One |
Fiction
Poetry |
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1998 |
National Book
Award |
Gerald Stern
(76, 82, 87) This Time: New & Selected Poems |
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Marie Ponsot (79)
The Bird Catcher |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Charles Wright (75,
84) Black Zodiac |
Poetry |
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1997 |
National Book Award |
William Meredith (72,
84) Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems |
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Charles Wright (75,
84) Black Zodiac |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Steven Millhauser (86) Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
Lisel Mueller (90) Alive Together: New & Selected Poems
|
Fiction
Poetry |
| |
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1996 |
National Book Award |
Andrea Barrett (92)
Ship Fever
Hayden Carruth (67, 75, 88) Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey
|
Fiction
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Gina Berriault (86)
Women in Their Beds |
Fiction |
Pulitzer Prize |
Richard Ford (80,
86) Independence Day
Jorie Graham (84) The Dream of the Unified Field |
Fiction
Poetry |
| |
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1995 |
National Book Award |
Stanley Kunitz (84)
Passing Through: The Later Poems |
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Stanley Elkin (72)
Mrs. Ted Bliss
William Matthews (75, 84) Time and Money |
Fiction
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Philip Levine (76,
81, 87) The Simple Truth |
Poetry |
| |
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1994 |
National Book Award |
William Gaddis (67,
74) A Frolic of His Own
James Tate (79) Worshipful Company of Fletchers |
Fiction
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Mark Rudman (95) Rider |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
E. Annie Proulx (NEA '91)
The Shipping News
Yusef Komunyakaa (NEA '81, '88) Neon Vernacular |
Fiction
Poetry |
| |
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1993 |
National Book Award |
E. Annie Proulx (91)
The Shipping News |
Fiction |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Ernest Gaines (68)
A Lesson Before Dying
Mark Doty (87) My Alexandria |
Fiction
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Robert Olen Butler (94) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Louise Gluck (70, 79, 88) The Wild Iris |
Fiction
Poetry |
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1992 |
National Book Award |
Mary Oliver (72) New
& Selected Poems |
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Hayden Carruth (67,
75, 88) Collected Shorter Poems |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Jane Smiley (78, 87)
A Thousand Acres
James Tate (79) Selected Poems |
Fiction
Poetry |
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1991 |
National Book Award |
Norman Rush (86) Mating
Philip Levine (76, 81, 87) What Work Is |
Fiction
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle
Award |
Jane Smiley (78, 87)
A Thousand Acres
Albert Goldbarth (74, 79, 86) Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology |
Fiction
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Mona Van Duyn (67)
Near Changes |
Poetry |
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1990 |
National Book Award |
Charles Johnson (80)
Middle Passage |
Fiction |
Pulitzer Prize |
Oscar Hijuelos (85)
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Fiction
Charles Simic (75, 79) The World Doesn't End |
Fiction
Poetry |
1989 |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Rodney Jones (84) Transparent Gestures |
Poetry |
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1988 |
National Book Award |
Peter Dexter (70) Paris Trout |
Fiction |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Bharati Mukherjee (86) The Middleman and Other Stories |
Fiction |
1987 |
National Book Award |
Larry Heinemann (81, 87) Paco’s Story |
Fiction |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
C. K. Williams (85, 93) Flesh and Blood |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Peter Taylor (84) A Summons to Memphis
Rita Dove (77, 89) Thomas and Beulah
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
1986 |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Reynolds Price (66) Kate Vaiden
Edward Hirsch (81) Wild Gratitude
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
Pulitzer Prize |
Peter Taylor (84) A Summons to Memphis
Rita Dove (77, 89) Thomas and Beulah
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
1985 |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Louise Glück (70, 79, 88) The Triumph of Achilles |
Poetry |
1984 |
National Book Award |
Harriet Doerr (83) Stones for Ibarra |
Fiction |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Louise Erdrich (83) Love Medicine
Sharon Olds (82) The Dead and the Living |
Fiction
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
William Kennedy (81) Ironweed
Mary Oliver (84) American Primitive
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
1983 |
National Book Award |
Gloria Naylor (85) The Women of Brewster Place
Alice Walker (78) The Color Purple
Eudora Welty (89) Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Galway Kinnell (77, 84) Selected Poems
Charles Wright (75, 84) Country Music: Selected Early Poems
|
Fiction
Fiction
Fiction
Poetry
Poetry |
1982 |
National Book Award |
Tracy Kidder (74) The Soul of a New Machine |
Nonfiction |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Stanley Elkin (72) George Mills
Katha Pollit (84) Antarctic Traveler
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
1981 |
National Book Award |
Wright Morris (86) Plains Song
Maxine Hong Kingston (80) China Men
Lisel Mueller (90) The Need to Hold Still
|
Fiction
Fiction
Poetry
|
Pulitzer Prize |
James Schuyler (72) The Morning of the Poem |
Poetry |
1980 |
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|
National Book Award |
John Irving (74) The World According to Garp
Philip Levine (76, 81, 87) Ashes |
Fiction
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Frederick Seidel (69) Sunrise |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Donald Justice (79, 89) Selected Poems |
Poetry |
1979 |
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|
National Book Critics Circle Award |
Philip Levine (76, 81, 87) Ashes and Seven Years from Nowhere |
Poetry |
1978 |
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Pulitzer Prize |
James Alan McPherson (72) Elbow Room |
Fiction |
1977 |
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|
National Book Award |
Wallace Stegner (90) The Spectator Bird |
Fiction |
1976 |
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|
National Book Award |
William Gaddis (67, 74) JR
John Ashbery (69) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
|
Fiction
Poetry
|
National Book Critics Circle Award |
John Gardner (72) October Light |
Fiction |
Pulitzer Prize |
John Ashbery (69) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Poetry |
1975 |
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|
National Book Award |
Robert Stone (68, 83) Dog Soldiers
Marilyn Hacker (74, 85) Presentation Piece |
Fiction
Poetry |
National Book Critics Circle Award |
John Ashbery (69) Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
Poetry |
1974 |
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|
National Book Award |
Isaac Bashevis Singer (67) A Crown of Feathers
Allen Ginsberg (79, 87) The Fall of America |
Fiction
Poetry |
1973 |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Eudora Welty (89) The Optimist’s Daughter
Maxine Kumin (67) Up Country |
Fiction
Poetry |
1972 |
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National Book Award |
Howard Moss (84) Selected Poems |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
Wallace Stegner (90) Angle of Repose |
Fiction |
1971 |
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|
National Book Award |
Mona Van Duyn (67) To See, To Take |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
W. S. Merwin (69, 77) The Carrier of Ladders |
Poetry |
1970 |
|
|
National Book Award |
Isaac Bashevis Singer (67) A Day of Pleasure
Joyce Carol Oates (69) Them
|
Children’s
Fiction |
Pulitzer Prize |
Richard Howard (87) Untitled Subjects |
Poetry |
1969 |
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|
National Book Award |
John Berryman (68) His Toy, His Dream, His Rest |
Poetry |
Pulitzer Prize |
George Oppen (80) Of Being Numerous |
Poetry |
1968 |
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Pulitzer Prize |
Anthony Hecht (89) The Hard Hours |
Poetry |
