Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters

This award is given annually to honor and recognize an individual who represents the very highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, non-fiction, or biography.

Each recipient is an author whose work has been accessible to a wide audience with a broadly based record of public recognition and appreciation.

Recipients are:

2011: Robert A. Caro
2010: Edward Albee
2009: John Edgar Wideman
2008: David McCullough
2007: Derek Walcott
2006: Joyce Carol Oates
2005: Tom Wolfe
2004: Salman Rushdie
2003: John Updike
2002: Toni Morrison