National Medal for Literature
National Medal for Literature,annual award to honor the achievements of an American's literary career, established by the National Book Committee, a nonprofit educational society founded in 1954. The sponsors have been The National Institute of Arts and Letters (1975–77), The American Book Awards (1979–83), and the New York Public Library (1978, 1984–85). Medalists are Thornton Wilder (1965), Edmund Wilson (1966), Auden (1967), Marianne Moore (1968), Conrad Aiken (1969), R.P. Warren (1970), E.B. White (1971), Lewis Mumford (1972), Nabokov (1973), no awards (1974–75), Tate (1976), Robert Lowell (1977), MacLeish (1978), no award (1979), Eudora Welty (1980), Kenneth Burke (1981), John Cheever (1982), no award (1983), Mary McCarthy (1984), award discontinued (1985).
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