Jayne Anne Phillips 

Prize Year: 2024    
Work: Night Watch   
Prize Category: Fiction       
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)   

Forrest Gander  

Prize Year: 2019    
Work: Be With   
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty    

Andrew Sean Greer  

Prize Year: 2018    
Work: Less    
Prize Category: Fiction       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty    

Paul Harding 

Prize Year: 2010   
Work: Tinkers    
Prize Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member   
 

David Lang

Prize Year: 2008   
Work: The Little Match Girl Passion    
Prize Category: Music    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)     
 

Philip Schultz

Prize Year: 2008   
Work: Failure    
Prize Category: Poetry   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)      

Robert Hass

Prize Year: 2008    
Work: Time and Materials    
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty  

Marilynne Robinson

 
Prize Year: 2005   
Work: Gilead    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiiation: Faculty Member 
 

Nilo Cruz

Prize Year: 2003    
Work: Anna in the Tropics   
Category: Drama       
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty

 

Mark Strand

Prize Year: 1999    
Work: Blizzard of One    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation:  Alumni (MA & PHD), Faculty Member    

Michael Cunningham

 Prize Year: 1999  
Work: The Hours   
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: MFA    
 

Charles Wright

Prize Year: 1998    
Work: Black Zodiac   
Category: Poetry   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)      

 

Phillip Roth

Prize Year: 1998    
Work: American Pastoral   
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Visiting Professor

 

Jorie Graham

Prize Year: 1996    
Work: The Dream of the Unified Field    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member   

 

Philip Levine

Prize Year: 1995    
Work: The Simple Truth    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member   

 

Robert Olen Butler

Prize Year: 1993    
Work: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain 
Category: Fiction   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)   
 

Louise Glück

Prize Year: 1993   
Work: The Wild Iris    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member 

 

Mike Toner

Prize Year: 1993    
Work: When Bugs Bite Back   
Category: Explanatory Journalism    
UI Affiliation: BA       
 

James Tate

Prize Year: 1992   
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA),  Faculty Member  

 

Jane Smiley

Prize Year: 1992    
Work: A Thousand Acres    
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member 

Mona Van Duyn

Prize Year: 1991    
Work: Near Changes    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)      

 

Rita Dove

Prize Year: 1987    
Work: Thomas and Beulah    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation:  Alumni (MFA)     

John Camp (John Sandford)

 Prize Year: 1986    
Work: Five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U.S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.   
Category: Feature Writing    
UI Affiliation: MFA       

Carolyn Kizer 

Prize Year: 1985    
Work: Yin   
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

Paul Conrad

Prize Year: 1984, 1971, 1964        
Prize Category: Editorial Cartooning    
UI Degree: BA       
 

Dick Locher

Prize Year: 1983        
Category: Editorial Cartooning   
UI Affiliation: Former student      
 

Galway Kinnell

Prize Year: 1983    
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

Tracy Kidder

Prize Year: 1982    
Work: The Soul of a New Machine   Category: General Nonfiction   
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA)       

 

Donald Justice

Prize Year: 1980    
Work: Selected Poems    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD), Faculty Member    

 

John Cheever

Prize Year: 1979    
Work: The Stories of John Cheever   
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

James Alan McPherson

Prize Year: 1978    
Work: Elbow Room    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty      

 

Robert Lowell

Prize Year: 1974    
Work: The Dolphin   
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

Wallace Stegner

Prize Year: 1972    
Work: Angle of Repose    
Category: Fiction    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA & PHD)       

 

Marquis Childs

Prize Year: 1970   
Work: Distinguished Commentary during 1969   
Category: Commentary        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member   

 

Anthony Hecht

Prize Year: 1968    
Work: The Hard Hours    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA),  Faculty Member    

 

John Berryman

Prize Year: 1965    
Work: 77 Dream Songs    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member

 

W.D. Snodgrass

Prize Year: 1960    
Work: Heart’s Needle    
Category: Poetry    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MFA), Faculty Member

 

Tennessee Williams

Prize Year: 1955    
Work: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof    
Category: Drama    
UI Affiliation: BA       

 

Richard Wilson

Prize Year: 1954    
Work: FBI Report to the White House in the Harry Dexter White Case    
Category: National Reporting    
UI Affiliation: Alumni

 

Don Ultang

Prize Year: 1952        
Category: Photography    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (BA)      

Robert Penn Warren

Prize Year: 1979 & 1958   
Work: Now and Then
           Promise: Poems 1954-1956  
Prize Category: Poetry       
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

Karl Shapiro

Prize Year: 1945   
Work: V-Letter and Other Poems    
Category: Poetry        
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member    

 

Marcus Lee Hansen

Prize Year: 1941    
Work: The Atlantic Migration    
Category: History        
UI Affiliation: Alumni (MA)   

 

Frank Luther Mott

Prize Year: 1939    
Work: A History of American Magazines
Category: History       
UI Affiliation: Faculty Member  

 

Josephine Johnson

Prize Year: 1935    
Work: Now in November    
Category: Fiction        
UI Affiliation: Visiting Faculty  
 

Fred Albert Shannon

Prize Year: 1929    
Work: The Organization and Administration of the Union Army    
Category: History    
UI Affiliation: Alumni (PHD)