Emerson-Thoreau Medal
The Emerson-Thoreau Medal is a literary prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to persons for their total literary achievement in the broad field of literature rather than for a specific work. Established in 1958, the prize is given at the discretion of the Council of the Academy on the recommendation of a nominating committee.
Recipients of the Emerson-Thoreau Medal
- 1958 Robert Frost
- 1959 Thomas Stearns Eliot
- 1960 Henry Beston
- 1961 Samuel Eliot Morison
- 1962 Katherine Anne Porter
- 1963 Mark Van Doren
- 1965 Lewis Mumford
- 1966 Edmund Wilson
- 1967 Joseph Wood Krutch
- 1968 John Crowe Ransom
- 1969 Hannah Arendt
- 1970 I. A. Richards
- 1975 Robert Penn Warren
- 1977 Saul Bellow
- 1979 James T. Farrell
- 1989 Norman Mailer
- 2013 Philip Roth
- 2016 Toni Morrison
- 2019 Margaret Atwood
- 2023 Maxine Hong Kingston