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:


 * 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