American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1916 – John Burroughs • 1925 – William Crary Brownell • 1935 – Agnes Repplier • 1946 – Van Wyck Brooks • 1950 – H. L. Mencken • 1955 – Edmund Wilson • 1960 – E. B. White • 1965 – Walter Lippmann • 1970 – Lewis Mumford • 1975 – Kenneth Burke • 1981 – Malcolm Cowley • 1987 – Jacques Barzun • 1993 – Elizabeth Hardwick • 1999 – Harold Bloom • 2005 – Joan Didion • 2011 – Eric Bentley • 2017 – Janet Malcolm • 2023 – Helen Hennessy Vendler ==Biography==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1976 – Leon Edel • 1982 – Francis Steegmuller • 1988 – James Thomas Flexner • 1994 – Walter Jackson Bate • 2000 – R. W. B. Lewis • 2006 – Robert Caro • 2012 – David McCullough • 2018 – Ron Chernow • 2024 – Doris Kearns Goodwin ==Drama==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1913 – Augustus Thomas • 1922 – Eugene O'Neill • 1931 – William Gillette • 1941 – Robert E. Sherwood • 1954 – Maxwell Anderson • 1959 – Arthur Miller • 1964 – Lillian Hellman • 1969 – Tennessee Williams • 1980 – Edward Albee • 1986 – Sidney Kingsley • 1992 – Sam Shepard • 1998 – Horton Foote • 2004 – John Guare • 2010 – Romulus Linney • 2016 – Wallace Shawn • 2022 – Adrienne Kennedy ==Fiction, novel, short story==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1915 – Charles William Eliot • 1915 – William Dean Howells • 1929 – Edith Wharton • 1933 – Booth Tarkington • 1944 – Willa Cather • 1952 – Thornton Wilder • 1957 – John Dos Passos • 1962 – William Faulkner • 1967 – Katherine Anne Porter • 1972 – Eudora Welty • 1977 – Saul Bellow • 1978 – Peter Taylor • 1983 – Bernard Malamud • 1989 – Isaac Bashevis Singer • 1995 – William Maxwell • 2001 – Philip Roth • 2007 – John Updike • 2013 – E. L. Doctorow • 2019 – Toni Morrison • 2025 – Don DeLillo ==Graphic art==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1954 – Reginald Marsh • 1959 – George Grosz • 1964 – Ben Shahn • 1969 – Leonard Baskin • 1974 – Saul Steinberg • 1980 – Peggy Bacon • 1986 – Jasper Johns • 1992 – David Levine • 1998 – Frank Stella • 2004 – Chuck Close • 2010 – Ed Ruscha • 2016 – Vija Celmins • 2022 – Kara Walker ==History==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters • 1910 – James Ford Rhodes • 1918 – William Roscoe Thayer • 1927 – William M. Sloane • 1937 – Charles M. Andrews • 1948 – Charles Austin Beard • 1952 – Carl Sandburg • 1957 – Allan Nevins • 1962 – Samuel Eliot Morison • 1967 – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. • 1972 – Henry Steele Commager • 1978 – Barbara W. Tuchman • 1984 – George F. Kennan • 1990 – C. Vann Woodward • 1996 – Peter Gay • 2002 – John Hope Franklin • 2008 – Edmund S. Morgan • 2014 – Natalie Zemon Davis • 2020 – David W. Blight ==Music==

• 1919 – Charles Martin Loeffler • 1928 – George W. Chadwick • 1938 – Walter Damrosch • 1942 – Ernest Bloch • 1947 – John Alden Carpenter • 1951 – Igor Stravinsky • 1956 – Aaron Copland • 1961 – Roger Sessions • 1966 – Virgil Thomson • 1971 – Elliott Carter • 1976 – Samuel Barber • 1982 – William Schuman • 1985 – Leonard Bernstein • 1988 – Milton Babbitt • 1991 – David Diamond • 1994 – Hugo Weisgall • 1997 – Gunther Schuller • 2000 – Lukas Foss • 2003 – Ned Rorem • 2006 – Stephen Sondheim • 2009 – Leon Kirchner • 2012 – Steve Reich • 2015 – George Crumb • 2018 – John Adams • 2021 – Yehudi Wyner • 2024 – Laurie Anderson ==Painting== • 1914 – John Singer Sargent • 1923 – Edwin Howland Blashfield • 1932 – Gari Melchers • 1942 – Cecilia Beaux • 1950 – John Sloan • 1955 – Edward Hopper • 1960 – Charles E. Burchfield • 1965 – Andrew Wyeth • 1970 – Georgia O'Keeffe • 1975 – Willem de Kooning • 1981 – Raphael Soyer • 1987 – Isabel Bishop • 1993 – Richard Diebenkorn • 1999 – Robert Rauschenberg • 2005 – Jane Freilicher • 2011 – Cy Twombly • 2017 – Wayne Thiebaud • 2023 – Faith Ringgold ==Poetry== • 1911 – James Whitcomb Riley • 1929 – Edwin Arlington Robinson • 1939 – Robert Frost • 1953 – Marianne Moore • 1958 – Conrad Aiken • 1963 – William Carlos Williams • 1968 – W. H. Auden • 1973 – John Crowe Ransom • 1979 – Archibald MacLeish • 1985 – Robert Penn Warren • 1991 – Richard Wilbur • 1997 – John Ashbery • 2003 – W. S. Merwin ==Sculpture==

• 1909 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens • 1917 – Daniel Chester French • 1926 – Herbert Adams • 1930 – Anna Hyatt Huntington • 1936 – George Grey Barnard • 1945 – Paul Manship • 1951 – James Earle Fraser • 1956 – Ivan Meštrović • 1961 – William Zorach • 1966 – Jacques Lipchitz • 1971 – Alexander Calder • 1977 – Isamu Noguchi • 1983 – Louise Nevelson • 1989 – Louise Bourgeois • 1995 – George Rickey • 2001 – Richard Serra • 2007 – Martin Puryear • 2013 – Mark di Suvero • 2019 – Lee Bontecou ==All winners==

Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters List of Awards • 1909 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Sculpture • 1910 – James Ford Rhodes, History • 1911 – James Whitcomb Riley, Poetry • 1912 – William Rutherford Mead, Architecture • 1913 – Augustus Thomas, Drama • 1914 – John Singer Sargent, Painting • 1915 – William Dean Howells, Fiction • 1916 – Charles William Eliot, Fiction • 1916 – John Burroughs, Belles Lettres • 1917 – Daniel Chester French, Sculpture • 1918 – William Roscoe Thayer, History • 1919 – Charles Martin Loeffler, Music • 1921 – Cass Gilbert, Architecture • 1922 – Eugene O'Neill, Drama • 1923 – Edwin Howland Blashfield, Painting • 1924 – Edith Wharton, Fiction • 1925 – William Crary Brownell, Belles Lettres • 1926 – Herbert Adams, Sculpture • 1927 – William M. Sloane, History • 1928 – George W. Chadwick, Music • 1929 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, Poetry • 1930 – Anna Hyatt Huntington, Sculpture • 1930 – Charles Adams Platt, Architecture • 1931 – William Gillette, Drama • 1932 – Gari Melchers, Painting • 1933 – Booth Tarkington, Fiction • 1935 – Agnes Repplier, Belles Lettres • 1936 – George Grey Barnard, Sculpture • 1937 – Charles M. Andrews, History • 1938 – Walter Damrosch, Music • 1939 – Robert Frost, Poetry • 1940 – William Adams Delano, Architecture • 1941 – Robert E. Sherwood, Drama • 1942 – Cecilia Beaux, Painting • 1943 – Stephen Vincent Benét, Literature • 1944 – Willa Cather, Fiction • 1945 – Paul Manship, Sculpture • 1946 – Van Wyck Brooks, Essays • 1947 – John Alden Carpenter, Music • 1948 – Charles Austin Beard, History • 1949 – Frederick Law Olmsted, Architecture • 1950 – H. L. Mencken, Essays • 1950 – John Sloan, Painting • 1951 – Igor Stravinsky, Music • 1951 – James Earle Fraser, Sculpture • 1952 – Carl Sandburg, History • 1952 – Thornton Wilder, Fiction • 1953 – Frank Lloyd Wright, Architecture • 1953 – Marianne Moore, Poetry • 1954 – Maxwell Anderson, Drama • 1954 – Reginald Marsh, Graphic Art • 1955 – Edmund Wilson, Essays • 1955 – Edward Hopper, Painting • 1956 – Aaron Copland, Music • 1956 – Ivan Meštrović, Sculpture • 1957 – Allan Nevins, History • 1957 – John Dos Passos, Fiction • 1958 – Conrad Aiken, Poetry • 1958 – Henry R. Shepley, Architecture • 1959 – Arthur Miller, Drama • 1959 – George Grosz, Graphic Art • 1960 – Charles E. Burchfield, Painting • 1960 – E. B. White, Essays • 1961 – Roger H. Sessions, Music • 1961 – William Zorach, Sculpture • 1962 – Samuel Eliot Morison, History • 1962 – William Faulkner, Fiction • 1963 – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architecture • 1963 – William Carlos Williams, Poetry • 1964 – Ben Shahn, Graphic Art • 1964 – Lillian Hellman, Drama • 1965 – Walter Lippmann, Essays • 1965 – Wyeth, Painting • 1966 – Jacques Lipchitz, Sculpture • 1966 – Virgil Thomson, Music • 1967 – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., History • 1967 – Katherine Anne Porter, Fiction • 1968 – R. Buckminster Fuller, Architecture • 1968 – W. H. Auden, Poetry • 1969 – Leonard Baskin, Graphic Art • 1969 – Tennessee Williams, Drama • 1970 – Georgia O'Keeffe, Painting • 1970 – Lewis Mumford, Belles Lettres • 1971 – Alexander Calder, Sculpture • 1971 – Elliott Carter, Music • 1972 – Eudora Welty, Novel • 1972 – Henry Steele Commager, History • 1973 – John Crowe Ransom, Poetry • 1973 – Louis I. Kahn, Architecture • 1974 – Saul Steinberg, Graphic Art • 1975 – Kenneth Burke, Belles Lettres • 1975 – Willem de Kooning, Painting • 1976 – Leon Edel, Biography • 1976 – Samuel Barber, Music • 1977 – Isamu Noguchi, Sculpture • 1977 – Saul Bellow, Novel • 1978 – Barbara W. Tuchman, History • 1978 – Peter Taylor, Short Story • 1979 – Archibald MacLeish, Poetry • 1979 – I. M. Pei, Architecture • 1980 – Edward Albee, Drama • 1980 – Peggy Bacon, Graphic Art • 1981 – Malcolm Cowley, Belles Lettres • 1981 – Raphael Soyer, Painting • 1982 – Francis Steegmuller, Biography • 1982 – William Schuman, Music • 1983 – Bernard Malamud, Fiction • 1983 – Louise Nevelson, Sculpture • 1984 – George F. Kennan, History • 1984 – Gordon Bunshaft, Architecture • 1985 – Leonard Bernstein, Music • 1985 – Robert Penn Warren, Poetry • 1986 – Jasper Johns, Graphic Art • 1986 – Sidney Kingsley, Drama • 1987 – Isabel Bishop, Painting • 1987 – Jacques Barzun, Belles Lettres • 1988 – James Thomas Flexner, Biography • 1988 – Milton Babbitt, Music • 1989 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Fiction • 1989 – Louise Bourgeois, Sculpture • 1990 – C. Vann Woodward, History • 1991 – David Diamond, Music • 1991 – Richard Wilbur, Poetry • 1992 – David Levine, Graphic Art • 1992 – Sam Shepard, Drama • 1993 – Elizabeth Hardwick, Belles Lettres/Criticism • 1993 – Richard Diebenkorn, Painting • 1994 – Hugo Weisgall, Music • 1994 – Walter Jackson Bate, Biography • 1995 – George Rickey, Sculpture • 1995 – William Maxwell, Fiction • 1996 – Peter Gay, History • 1996 – Philip Johnson, Architecture • 1997 – Gunther Schuller, Music • 1997 – John Ashbery, Poetry • 1998 – Frank Stella, Graphic Art • 1998 – Horton Foote, Drama • 1999 – Harold Bloom, Belles Lettres • 1999 – Kevin Roche, Architecture • 1999 – Robert Rauschenberg, Painting • 2000 – Lukas Foss, Music • 2000 – R. W. B. Lewis, Biography • 2001 – Richard Meier, Graphic Art • 2001 – Philip Roth, Fiction • 2001 – Richard Serra, Sculpture • 2002 – Frank O. Gehry, Architecture • 2002 – John Hope Franklin, History • 2003 – Ned Rorem, Music • 2003 – W. S. Merwin, Poetry • 2004 – Chuck Close, Graphic Art • 2004 – John Guare, Drama • 2005 – Jane Freilicher, Painting • 2005 – Joan Didion, Belles Lettres and Criticism • 2006 – Robert Caro, Biography • 2006 – Stephen Sondheim, Music • 2007 – John Updike, Fiction • 2007 – Martin Puryear, Sculpture • 2008 – Edmund S. Morgan, History • 2008 – Richard Meier, Architecture • 2009 – Leon Kirchner, Music • 2009 – Mark Strand, Poetry • 2010 – Ed Ruscha, Graphic Art • 2010 – Romulus Linney, Drama • 2010 – Toni Morrison, Belles Lettres and Criticism • 2011 – Cy Twombly, Painting • 2011 – Eric Bentley, Belles Lettres and Criticism • 2012 – David McCullough, Biography • 2012 – Steve Reich, Music • 2013 – E. L. Doctorow, Fiction • 2013 – Mark di Suvero, Sculpture • 2014 – Henry N. Cobb, Architecture • 2014 – Natalie Zemon Davis, History • 2015 – George Crumb, Music • 2015 – Louise Gluck, Poetry • 2016 – Vija Celmins, Graphic Art • 2016 – Wallace Shawn, Drama • 2017 – Janet Malcolm, Belles Lettres and Criticism • 2017 – Wayne Thiebaud, Painting • 2018 – Ron Chernow, Biography • 2018 – John Adams, Music • 2019 – Lee Bontecou, Sculpture • 2019 – Toni Morrison, Literature • 2020 – David W. Blight, Literature • 2020 – Peter Eisenman, Architecture • 2021 – Rita Dove, Poetry • 2021 – Yehudi Wyner, Music • 2022 – Adrienne Kennedy, Drama • 2022 – Kara Walker, Graphic art • 2023 – Helen Hennessy Vendler, Belles Lettres and Criticism • 2023 – Faith Ringgold, Painting • 2024 – Laurie Anderson, Music • 2024 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, Biography ==See also==