Search All Winners

Name	Genre	Year
Anne Washburn	Drama	2015
Teddy Wayne	Fiction	2011
Charles Harper Webb	Poetry	1998
Kerri Webster	Poetry	2011
Joshua Weiner	Poetry	2002
Timberlake Wertenbaker	Drama	1989
Kate Wheeler	Fiction	1994
Simone White	Poetry	2017
Colson Whitehead	Fiction	2000
Marianne Wiggins	Fiction	1989
Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction	1990
Damien Wilkins	Fiction	1992
Claude Wilkinson	Poetry	2000
Phillip B. Williams	Poetry	2017
Greg Williamson	Poetry	1998
Tracey Scott Wilson	Drama	2004
August Wilson	Drama	1986
Tobias Wolff	Fiction, Nonfiction	1989
John Wray	Fiction	2001
C.D. Wright	Poetry	1989
Austin Wright	Fiction, Nonfiction	1985
Franz Wright	Poetry	1991
Stephen Wright	Fiction	1990
Lauren Yee	Drama	2019
Martha Zweig	Poetry	1999

Selected Memoirists

Judy Blunt 2001

Breaking Clean: A Memoir

Spring of 1954, my mother stood at the threshold of Henry Picotte’s abandoned chicken house, a bouquet of hens dangling in either hand, and eyed the enormous prairie rattler...

Danzy Senna 2002

Caucasia: A Novel

Cole claimed to remember the good times between my parents. But I didn’t. Seemed like they were always breaking up to make up. After their big fights, they usually got back...

Andrew X. Pham 2000

Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam

“The roads are dangerous,” she says. “The country is not safe.”

“People are very poor,” Granduncle adds, in agreement. “This isn’...

Chris Offutt 1996

Kentucky Straight: Stories

The tow truck lurched a few yards, dappling everyone with mud. Bobby’s ruined knee spurted a red arc. Then another. And another. The men watched, bewildered and afraid. They...

Lucy Grealy 1995

Autobiography of a Face: A Memoir

I stood there perfectly still, just as I had sat for countless medical photographs: full face, turn to the left, the right, now a three-quarter shot to the left. I took a...