Inaugural class of 2010 •
James Baldwin (1924–1987) •
Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) •
Robert Caro (b. 1935) •
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) •
Mary Gordon (b. 1949) •
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) •
Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) •
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) •
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) •
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) •
E. B. White (1899–1985) •
Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
Class of 2011 •
John Ashbery (1927–2017) •
Willa Cather (1873–1947) •
Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) •
Ralph Ellison (1914–1994) •
Paula Fox (1923–2017) •
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965) •
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) •
Herman Melville (1819–1891) •
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
Class of 2012 •
John Cheever (1912–1982) •
Hart Crane (1899–1932) •
E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015) •
Edna Ferber (1885–1968) •
Pete Hamill (1935–2020) •
Washington Irving (1783–1859) •
Henry James (1843–1916) •
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) •
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) •
Toni Morrison (1931–2019) •
Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) •
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) •
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) •
Richard Wright (1908–1960)
Class of 2013 •
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) •
Countee Cullen (1903–1946) •
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) •
Alice McDermott (b. 1953) •
Walter Mosley (b. 1952) •
Miguel Piñero (1946–1988) •
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) •
Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
Class of 2014 •
Russell Banks (1940–2023) •
Mary Higgins Clark (1929–2020) •
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) •
Alice Hoffman (b. 1952) •
Maurice Kenny (1929–2016) •
Rex Stout (1886–1975) •
James Thurber (1894–1961)
Class of 2015 •
Isaac Asimov (1920?–1992) •
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) •
Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983) •
Dawn Powell (1896–1965) •
Francine Prose (b. 1947) •
David Remnick (b. 1958) •
Colm Tóibín (b. 1955)
Class of 2016 •
Roger Angell (1920–2022) •
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) •
Roz Chast (b. 1954) •
Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) •
Jean Craighead George (1919–2012) •
Don Marquis (1878–1937) •
Grace Paley (1922–2007) •
Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021)
Class of 2017 •
Ron Chernow (b. 1949) •
Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) •
William Kennedy (b. 1928) •
Christopher Morley (1890–1957) •
Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014) •
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) •
Lillian Ross (1918–2017)
Class of 2018 •
Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) •
E. L. Konigsburg (1930–2013) •
Jose Marti (1853–1895) •
Russell Shorto (b. 1959) •
Colson Whitehead (b. 1969) •
Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963)
Class of 2019 •
William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) •
Jennifer Egan (b. 1962) •
Doris Kearns Goodwin (b. 1943) •
Larry Kramer (1935–2020) •
James Patterson (b. 1947) •
Richard Peck (1934–2018) •
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018)
Class of 2020/2021 The 2020 induction ceremony was postponed to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. •
Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) •
Bill Finger (1914–1974) •
Anna Katharine Green (1846–1935) •
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) •
Andrea Davis Pinkney (b. 1963) •
Lore Segal (1928–2024) •
Garry Trudeau (b. 1948)
Class of 2022 •
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) •
Min Jin Lee (b. 1968) •
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) •
James McBride (b. 1957)
Class of 2023 •
Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)
Class of 2025 •
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) ==See also==