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Former Honorees

2008 honorees
2008 Honorees
Pictured left to right: Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron,
Edward Albee, and Salman Rushdie.

2007 honorees
2007 Honorees
Pictured left to right: Martin Scorsese, Jhumpa Lahiri,
Tom Stoppard, and John Hope Franklin.

2006 honorees
2006 Honorees
Pictured left to right: Oprah Winfrey, Elie Wiesel,
Gao Xingjian, James D. Watson, and Orhan Pamuk

2005 honorees
2005 Honorees
Pictured left to right: Billy Taylor, Mike Nichols,
Shirley Hazzard, Thomas L. Friedman, and Harold Bloom

2004 Honorees
2004 Honorees
Pictured from left to right: James Conlon, Renee Fleming,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and David Remnick

  • Edward Albee
  • Brooke Russell Astor
  • Harold Bloom
  • Ashley Bryan
  • Robert Caro
  • Johnnetta B. Cole
  • Billy Collins
  • James Conlon
  • Jim Dine
  • Rita Dove
  • Nora Ephron
  • Renee Fleming
  • Shelby Foote
  • John Hope Franklin
  • Thomas L. Friedman
  • Gao Xingjian
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Margaret J. Geller
  • Louis V. Gerstner, Jr
  • Shirley Hazzard
  • Robert Hughes
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Ming Cho Lee
  • David Levering Lewis
  • Audra McDonald
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Mike Nichols
  • Orhan Pamuk
  • Gordon Parks
  • David Remnick
  • John Richardson
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Philip Roth
  • Salman Rushdie
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Maurice Sendak
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Susan Stroman
  • Billy Taylor
  • Julie Taymor
  • James D. Watson
  • Christopher Wheeldon
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • George C. Wolfe
  • Charles Wright