Previous Steloff Honorees
- 2022 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- 2021 - Adam Phillips
- 2021 - Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 2019 - Mary Gaitskill
- 2018 - Michael Ondaatje
- 2017 - Claire Messud
- 2016 - Art Spiegelman
- 2015 - Colm Toíbín
- 2014 - Jamaica Kincaid
- 2013 - Jonathan Franzen
- 2012 - Ha Jin
- 2012 - Zadie Smith
- 2010 - Marilynne Robinson
- 2009 - Allan Gurganus
- 2008 - Don Delillo
- 2007 - Margarethe von Trotta
- 2006 - Margaret Atwood
- 2005 - John Banville
- 2004 - Rita Dove
- 2003 - Anita Desai
- 2002 - Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2001 - Russell Banks
- 2000 - Seamus Heaney
- 1999 - Janet Malcolm
- 1998 - Robert Pinsky
- 1997 - Mary Gordon
- 1996 - J.M. Coetzee
- 1995 - Louise Glück
- 1994 - Saul Bellow
- 1993 - Susan Sontag
- 1992 - Cynthia Ozick
- 1991 - William Kennedy
- 1991 - Chinua Achebe
- 1990 - Nadine Gordimer
- 1989 - Joyce Carol Oats
- 1987 - Arthur Miller
- 1986 - James Laughlin
- 1984 - Joseph Campbell
- 1984 - Alfred Kazin
- 1983 - Richard Ellmann
- 1982 - Elizabeth Hardwick
- 1981 - Roger Tory Peterson
- 1980 - Hortense Calisher
- 1979 - Muriel Rukeyser
- 1978 - Martha Graham
- 1977 - Kay Boyle
- 1976 - Katherine Anne Porter
- 1974 - Jane Mayhall
- 1972 - Anaïs Nin
- 1970 - Jean Garrigue
- 1969 - Gwendolyn Brooks
- 1968 - Granville Hicks
Pulitzer Prize Winners
- 2016 - Art Spiegelman
- 2010 - Marilynne Robinson
- 1994 - Saul Bellow
- 1991 - William Kennedy
- 1987 - Arthur Miller
- 1969 - Gwendolyn Brooks
Nobel Prize Winners
- 2020 - Louise Glück
- 2002 - Mario Vargas Llosa
- 2000 - Seamus Heaney
- 1996 - J.M. Coetzee
- 1994 - Saul Bellow
- 1990 - Nadine Gordimer
Booker Prize Winners
- 2018 - Michael Ondaatje
- 2006 - Margaret Atwood
- 2005 - John Banville
- 1996 - J.M. Coetzee
- 1990 - Nadine Gordimer