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:

• 2025 Colson Whitehead
• 2024 Jamaica Kincaid
• 2023 Neil Gaiman
• 2022 Arundhati Roy
• 2021 Zadie Smith
• 2020 Michael Chabon
• 2019 Edwidge Danticat
• 2018 Stephen Sondheim
• 2017 Margaret Atwood
• 2016 Michael Ondaatje
• 2015 David Grossman
• 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

External links

• Library Associates Website