Recipients of the Emerson-Thoreau Medal

1989 Norman Mailer: novelist, critic, man of letters

1979 James T. Farrell: novelist, critic, essayist

1977 Saul Bellow: teacher, novelist, critic of society

1975 Robert Penn Warren: novelist, poet, critic, teacher

1970 I. A. Richards: poet, critic, teacher of critics

1969 Hannah Arendt: social and political historian and philosopher

1968 John Crowe Ransom: poet, critic, man of letters

1967 Joseph Wood Krutch: critic, biographer, naturalist

1966 Edmund Wilson: critic, man of letters

1965 Lewis Mumford: teacher, critic, philosopher

1963 Mark Van Doren: poet, critic, teacher

1962 Katherine Anne Porter: novelist

1961 Samuel Eliot Morison: biographer, historian, scholar

1960 Henry Beston: naturalist, countryman, author

1959 Thomas Stearns Eliot: poet, critic, playwright

1958 Robert Frost: poet



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