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:

St. Louis Literary Award

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

Saint Louis University

Awards established in 1967

1967 establishments in Missouri

American fiction awards

St. Louis Literary Award