Awards & Authors
The tradition of great writing at Iowa is exemplified in the accomplishments of our alumni and faculty; following is an overview of some of the distinguished authors associated with writing at Iowa.
UI Pulitzer Prize Winners Timeline
International Writing Program
Paul Engle
Yale Series of Younger PoetsHualing Nieh Engle
Nominee, with Hualing Nieh Engle, for Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize nomineeJosef Haslinger
Pierre Joris
Orhan Pamuk
Independent Award for Foreign FictionViktor Olegovich Pelevin
Prix France Culture
Prix du Meilleu Libre Etranger
IMPAC Dublin Award
Le Prix Medicis
Nobel Prize for Literature
Uriel Quesada
Premio Nacional A.J. EcheverriaTomaž Šalamun
Preseren Fund Prize
Jenko Prize
Pushcart Prize
Iowa Writers' Workshop
John Berryman
Pulitzer PrizeEthan Canin
Edward Carey
Raymond Carver
Guggenheim FellowJohn Cheever
Pulitzer PrizeMax A. Collins, Jr.
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Frank Conroy
Michael Cunningham
Pulitzer PrizeJohn D’Agata
Whiting Writers' Award
PEN/Faulkner Award
Finalist, PEN/Martha Albrand Award for NonfictionRita Dove
Pulitzer PrizePaul Engle
U.S. Poet Laureate
National Book Critics Circle Award
Yale Series of Younger PoetsHualing Nieh Engle
Nominee, with Hualing Nieh Engle, for Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize nomineeJames Galvin
Louise Glück
Pulitzer PrizeJorie Graham
U.S. Poet Laureate
National Book Critics Circle Award
PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction
Bollingen Prize
Pulitzer PrizeAllan Gurganus
MacArthur Fellowship
Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and LettersAnthony Hecht
Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Pulitzer PrizeJohn Irving
U.S. Poet Laureate
Prix de Rome
Bollingen Prize
Academy AwardDonald Justice
Pulitzer PrizeTracy Kidder
Bollingen Prize
National Book Award
Pulitzer PrizeW.P. Kinsella
Carolyn Kizer
Pulitzer PrizePhilip Levine
Pushcart Prize
Frost Medal
Pulitzer PrizeRobert Lowell
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Pulitzer PrizeElizabeth McCracken
Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize
National Book Award FinalistJames Alan McPherson
L.L. Winship/PEN New England Prize
Pulitzer PrizeHerbert Nipson
MacArthur Fellowship
(Mary) Flannery O’Connor
Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer PrizeMatthew Rohrer
PEN/Hemingway
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Poetry SeriesPhilip Roth
Pulitzer PrizeJane Smiley
National Book Award
National Book Critics Circle Award
PEN/Faulkner Award
National Medal of Arts
PEN/Nabokov Award
Pulitzer PrizeW.D. Snodgrass
O. Henry Award
Pulitzer PrizeWilliam Stafford
National Book Critics Circle Award
National Book AwardWallace Stegner
Guggenheim Fellowship
Shelley Memorial Award
U.S. Poet Laureate
Pulitzer PrizeMark Strand
National Book Award
Los Angelese Times Kirsch Award
PEN Center USA West Award
O'Henry Award
Pulitzer PrizeMona Van Duyn
U.S. Poet Laureate
MacArthur Fellowship
Bollingen Prize
Wallace Stevens Awards
Pulitzer PrizeKurt Vonnegut, Jr.
U.S. Poet Laureate
National Book Award
Ruth Lilly Prize
Guggenheim FellowNaomi Wallace
Emmy Award
Obie AwardRobert Penn Warren
MacArthur Fellow
Pulitzer PrizeCharles Wright
National Book Award
Pulitzer PrizeDean Young
National Book Award
PEN Translation Prize
Nonfiction Writing Program
Finalist, PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction
Playwrights Workshop
Emmy AwardRebecca Gilman
Writer's Guild Award
W. David Hancock
Obie AwardNaomi Wallace
Obie Award
MacArthur Fellow
School of Journalism
Steve Berry
Pulitzer PrizeJohn R. Camp
Pulitzer PrizeMarquis Childs
Pulitzer PrizeJohn Cochran
Paul Conrad
Pulitzer PrizeDavid Guttenfelder
Print Journalist of the Year (1992)
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Pulitzer PrizeRichard “Dick” Locher
Pulitzer PrizeCarol McKay
Frank Luther Mott
Pulitzer PrizeBrian Ross
Peabody AwardMichael F. Toner
Emmy Award
Pulitzer PrizeDon Ultang
Pulitzer PrizeSheba R. Wheeler
Pulitzer Prize
Theatre Department
Pulitzer PrizeNorman Felton
Guggenheim Fellowship
Emmy AwardW. David Hancock
Obie AwardBarry Kemp
Richard Maibaum
Nicholas Meyer
John O’Keefe
Todd Ristau
Charles Smith
Emmy AwardStewart Stern
Gene Wilder
Tennessee Williams
Pulitzer Prize
Tony Award
