2021
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Naima Coster
- Kate DiCamillo
- Lauren Groff
- William Kent Krueger
- Chang-rae Lee
- N. Scott Momaday
- Amor Towles
2020
- Claudia Rankine
- Helen Macdonald
- Sarah M. Broom
- Isabel Wilkerson
2019
- Alice Hoffman
- Saeed Jones
- Tim O'Brien
- Karen Armstrong
- Lindy West
- Tracy K. Smith
2018
- Dessa
- Leif Enger
- Rebecca Traister
- Sally Field
- Alexander McCall Smith
2017
- Sherman Alexie
- Jacqueline Woodson
- Amy Tan
- Ron Chernow
- Dan Brown
2016
- Elizabeth Alexander
- Carl Hiassen
- Gloria Steinem
- Ann Patchett
- Colson Whitehead
2015
- Jonathan Franzen
- Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
- John Irving
- Stacy Schiff
- Jane Smiley
2014
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Cassandra Clare and Holly Black
- Azar Nafisi
- Karen Armstrong
- Richard Ford
2013-2014
- Edwidge Danticat
- Margaret Atwood
- Rick Riordan
- Pat Conroy
2012-2013
- Junot Diaz
- Jeffrey Toobin
- Abraham Verghese
- Erin Morgenstern
- Isabel Allende
2011-2012
- Jennifer Egan
- Stacy Schiff
- Colson Whitehead
- Chuck Palahniuk
2010-2011
- Jonathan Franzen
- Nicole Krauss
- Nora Ephron
- Anita Shreve
2009-2010
- James Ellroy
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Stephen King
- Audrey Niffenegger
- Monica Ali
2008-2009
- Richard Russo
- Wally Lamb
- Nikki Giovanni
- Michael Greenberg
- Sandra Cisneros
- Rita Dove
2007-2008
- Sherman Alexie
- Ann Patchett
- Walter Mosley
- Michael Ondaatje
- Judy Blume
2006-2007
- David Treuer
- Edna O'Brien
- Isabel Allende
- Alison McGhee
- Galway Kinnell and Josephine Dickison
- Michael Chabon
2005-2006
- Joan Didion
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Kaye Gibbons
- Marilynne Robinson
- Brent Runyon
- Julia Alvarez
2004-2005
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Russell Banks
- Chris Van Allsburg
- Tobias Wolff
- Jonathan Odell
- Gary Snyder
2003-2004
- Anna Quindlen
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Augusten Burroughs
- Jean Harfenist
- Neil Gaiman
- Anchee Min
2002-2003
- Salman Rushdie
- Pat Conroy
- Kien Nguyen
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Quincy Troupe
- Robert Alexander
- Diane Glancy
- Margaret Atwood
2001-2002
- Sue Miller
- John Edgar Wideman
- Robert Bly
- Leif Enger
- Jane Hamilton
- Sebastian Junger
- Kate DiCamillo
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Rick Moody
2000-2001
- Mona Simpson
- Ellen Gilchrist
- Bill Holm
- Amy Tan
- Sandra Benitez
- Tony Earley
- Maureen Howard
