American Book Award winners

African American novelist, essayist, and academic (1931–2019)

Chilean writer

American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer (1926–1991)

Palestinian-American professor (1935–2003)

American political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)

American guitarist

American actor, author and activist (born 1937)

Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)

Canadian author and activist (born 1970)

American author and activist (1952–2021)

American writer and feminist activist (1934–1992)

American feminist writer (1946–2005)

American novelist, playwright and essayist (born 1936)

Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew of US president John F. Kennedy and US senator Ted Kennedy.

American philanthropist and novelist

American physicist (1939-)

American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies

American poet (born 1930)

American author and journalist

African-American writer (1934–2014)

writer from the United States

American whistleblower (1931–2023)

American writer, editor, and publisher

Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer (born 1949)

American cartoonist and writer (born 1948)

Japanese novelist (1962-)

American philosopher, political activist and writer (born 1953)

American writer and poet (born 1954)

Novelist, short story writer, memoirist

Maltese-American cartoonist and journalist; pioneer of the Non-Fiction Graphic Novel (b. 1960)

Ghanaian-American novelist

Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory (1942-2004)

American academic (1933–2026)

novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist

American author and filmmaker

Jamaican novelist

American playwright (1945-2005)

Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer

language spoken by the Chipewyan people of central Canada

American poet, writer and activist

American underground comic book writer, music critic, and media personality (1939-2010)

American writer, journalist, historian (1934–2007)

American writer

American literary critic, professor and historian (born 1950)

American Poet Laureate

Mexican writer

Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist (born 1988)

American writer

Chinese American author

American poet (1926-2005)

American writer (1910–1970)

American writer

American writer (1940–2023)

American fiction writer, critic, philosophy professor

Japanese poet (1931–2024)

American writer and journalist

American author, music journalist and cultural critic

American writer (1939-2008)

American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist

American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher