American Book Award winners

American Chicano novelist, poet (1937–2020)

American poet, author, performer, and political activist

American author

Novelist, short story writer, essayist

American writer (1912–2007)

American poet (1945-)

British actor (1928-1995)

American writer (1936-2019)

American poet, playwright and activist

Filipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, multimedia performance artist

poet, novelist and writer from the United States

American writer and director

American photographer (1869-1942)

American poet, novelist, and memoirist (1912-1995)

American actor and playwright

American poet (1919-1988)

American writer and activist (born 1952)

American writer (born 1948)

American writer (1950–2016)

American historian

American civil rights activist (1914–1999)

American poet and activist (born 1939)

American cartoonist known for his Acme Novelty Library series (begun 1994) and several graphic novels (1967- )

American poet (1923–2002)

American Tlingit writer and poet (1927–2017)

American author, activist, professor (1939–1995)

American political scientist (1931–2010)

American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic (born 1973)

American poet (1931–2024)

American counter-terrorism expert; former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-terrorism for the United States

British political historian (1937- 2013)

American writer

American author and journalist

American writer

Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian from the Gaza Strip

novelist (1929–2019)

American writer

American fiction writer, memoirist, essayist

Mojave poet, writer and basketball player

American writer and schoolteacher

Scholar of the Black diaspora and culture

American poet (1925–1965)

British musician

American writer, novelist, essayist

American poet (1926–1971)

United States Army officer

Chickasaw writer

American writer (born 1950)

Native American writer (1940–2003)

American writer and social activist (1900–1996)

American poet and faculty at the University of California, Davis (1954-2016)

American writer

author and literary critic

American writer

American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic (born 1937)

American writer

American journalist

American novelist

Anthropologist, bureaucrat, scholar, writer

American novelist and journalist