National Humanities Medal Winners

People with National Humanities Medal

People

Name Title
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese American historian
Ernest J. Gaines Novelist short story writer teacher
Ernest L. Boyer American psychologist and educator first President of SUNY
Eudora Welty American writer photographer
Eva Brann American academic
Fouad Ajami Professor
Frank Deford American sportswriter
Frankie Hewitt American theater producer
Gabor Boritt American historian
Garrison Keillor American writer
Garry Wills American academic
Gertrude Himmelfarb American cultural historian
Gordon S. Wood American historian
Hal Holbrook Actor
Hanna Holborn Gray American historian
Harold Holzer American academic
Harvey Mansfield Author professor
Hilton Kramer American art critic and cultural commentator
Isabel Wilkerson American journalist
Jacques Barzun Historian
James M. Buchanan economist Nobel Prize in economics winner
James McBride Writer
Jean Fritz American children's writer
Jhumpa Lahiri Short story writer novelist
Jill Ker Conway American historian
Jim Lehrer American writer
Joan Didion American writer
Joan Ganz Cooney American television producer
John Ashbery American poet professor
John Hope Franklin American historian
John Lewis Gaddis American military historian
John Rawls Philosopher
John Searle American philosopher
John Updike American novelist and short story writer
José Cisneros American Politician
Joyce Carol Oates American novelist
Judith Martin American etiquette expert
Judy Crichton American television producer
Karl Haas American musicologist
Kay Ryan American poet
Ken Burns (referee) Football referee
Kevin Starr American historian
Kwame Anthony Appiah Novelist
Larry McMurtry American military historian
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich American historian
Lewis Lehrman American investment banker
Louis Menand Writer Pulitzer Prize for History winner
Louise Cowan
Louise Glück Poet
M. H. Abrams American literary theorist

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