Library Lions: Former Honorees

2023 Library Lions pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Steven Spielberg, Ina Garten, Bill T. Jones, Khaled Hosseini, and David Nasaw.
2023 Library Lions pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Steven Spielberg, Ina Garten, Bill T. Jones, Khaled Hosseini, and David Nasaw.
2022 Library Lions including: Laurie Anderson, Lynn Nottage, Charles M. Blow, Amartya Sen, Mary Beard, and Tony Marx.
2022 Library Lions pictured left to right: Laurie Anderson, Lynn Nottage, Charles M. Blow, Amartya Sen, Mary Beard, and Tony Marx.
 Darren Walker, Tina Brown, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jonathan Lethem, Tony Marx.
2021 Library Lions pictured left to right: Darren Walker, Tina Brown, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jonathan Lethem, Tony Marx
 Elizabeth Alexander, Evan Chessler, Jill Lepore, Jamaica Kincaid, Frederick Wiseman, Tony Marx.
2019 Library Lions pictured left to right: Elizabeth Alexander, Evan Chesler, Jill Lepore, Jamaica Kincaid, Frederick Wiseman, Tony Marx
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2017 Library Lions pictured left to right: Robert Wilson, Carla Hayden, Colson Whitehead, Tom Brokaw, and Michael Chabon
2018 Library Lions pictured left to right: Jessye Norman, Elizabeth Strout, Claudia Rankine, Francis Ford Coppola, and Ron Chernow
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2015 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Alan Bennett, Judith A. Jamison, Maira Kalman, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Gloria Steinem, and Evan Chesler
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2016 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Evan Chesler, Harry Belafonte, Hilary Mantel, Javier Marías, Peggy Noonan, Colm Tóibín, and Tony Marx
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2014 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Anna Deavere Smith, Dave Eggers, Tony Marx, Margaret Atwood, Bob Silvers, and Kazuo Ishiguro
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2013 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Stephen Sondheim, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Marilynne Robinson, Katherine Boo, and Junot Díaz
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2012 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Tony Marx, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Martin Amis, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Jennifer Egan
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2011 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Jonathan Franzen, Natalie Merchant, Stacey Schiff, Ian McEwan, Isabel Wilkerson, and Tony Kushner
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2010 Library Lions Pictured left to right: Paul LeClerc, Steve Martin, Malcolm Gladwell, Zadie Smith, and Ethan Hawke
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2009 Library Lions Pictured left to right: David Smith, Annie Proulx, Janice Moore-Smith, Paul LeClerc, Julia Chang, and Hilary Knight
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2008 Honorees Pictured left to right: Ashley Bryan, Nora Ephron, Edward Albee, and Salman Rushdie

 


 

Former Honorees

  • Daniel Aaron
  • Chinua Achebe
  • Diane Ackerman
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Renata Adler
  • Edward Albee
  • Elizabeth Alexander
  • Joseph Alsop
  • Susan Mary Alsop
  • Yehuda Amichai
  • Martin Amis
  • Laurie Anderson
  • Roger Angell
  • Maya Angelou
  • Michael Arlen
  • William Arrowsmith
  • John Ashbery
  • Isaac Asimov
  • Brooke Russell Astor
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Louis Auchincloss
  • Ken Auletta
  • Paul Auster
  • Jon Robin Baitz
  • Russell Baker
  • James Baldwin
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Mary Beard
  • Ann Beattie
  • Louis Begley
  • Harry Belafonte
  • Alan Bennett
  • Olivier Bernier
  • Carl Bernstein
  • Stephn Birmingham
  • Clark Blaise
  • Harold Bloom 
  • Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg 
  • Roy Blount, Jr. 
  • Charles M. Blow
  • Judy Blume
  • Katherine Boo
  • Daniel Boorstin
  • Joseph Brodsky
  • Tom Brokaw
  • Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Rita Mae Brown
  • Tina Brown
  • Ashley Bryan
  • Art Buckwald
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Roberto Calasso
  • Hortense Calisher
  • Robert A. Caro 
  • Raymond Carver
  • Nina Cassian
  • Michael Chabon
  • Susan Cheever
  • Ron Chernow
  • Amy Clampitt
  • Eleanor Clark
  • Lucille Clifton
  • Johnnetta B. Cole
  • Billy Collins
  • Henry Steele Commager
  • James Conlon 
  • Alistair Cooke
  • Francis Ford Coppola
  • Avery Corman
  • Malcolm Cowey
  • Arthur C. Danto
  • Robert Darnton
  • Anita Desai
  • Peter DeVries
  • Junot Díaz
  • Joan Didion
  • Annie Dillard 
  • Jim Dine
  • E.L. Doctorow
  • Ariel Dorfman
  • Rita Dove
  • Elizabeth Drew
  • Dominick Dunne
  • John Gregory Dunne
  • Jennifer Egan
  • Dave Eggers
  • Stanley Elkin
  • Sumner Locke Elliott
  • Ralph Ellison
  • Amos Elon
  • Nora Ephron
  • Howard Fast
  • Jules Feiffer
  • Frances FitzGerald
  • Thomas Flanagan
  • Renée Fleming
  • James Thomas Flexner
  • Eric Foner
  • Shelby Foote
  • Richard Ford
  • John Hope Franklin
  • Jonathan Franzen
  • Lady Antonia Fraser
  • Betty Friedan
  • Thomas L. Friedman
  • Otto Friedrich
  • Carlos Fuentes
  • William Gaddis
  • John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Tess Gallagher
  • George Garrett
  • Ina Garten
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Peter Gay
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel
  • Margaret J. Geller
  • Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
  • Brendan Gill
  • Robert Giroux
  • Malcolm Gladwell
  • Phillip Glass
  • Gail Godwin
  • Paul Goldberger
  • Barbara Goldsmith
  • George Goodman
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Mary Gordon
  • Annette Gordon-Reed
  • Francine du Plessix Gray
  • Doris Grumbach
  • John Guare
  • Allan Gurganus
  • A. R. Gurney
  • David Halberstam
  • Philip Hamburger
  • Pete Hamill
  • Patricia Hampl
  • Elizabeth Hradwick
  • Curtis Harnack
  • Michael S. Harper
  • Ethan Hawke
  • Carla Hayden
  • Shirley Hazzard
  • Anthony Hecht
  • Joseph Heller
  • Lillian Hellman
  • Mark Helprin
  • Nat Hentoff
  • John Hersey
  • George V. Higgins
  • Oscar Hijuelos
  • Edward Hoagland
  • Laura Hobson
  • John Hollander
  • Paul Horgan
  • Khaled Hosseini
  • Maureen Howard
  • Irving Howe
  • Robert Hughes
  • Evan Hunter
  • Ada Louise Huxtable
  • John Irving
  • Walter Isaacson
  • Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Josephine Jacobsen
  • Judith A. Jamison
  • Elizabeth Janeway
  • Ruth Prwer Jhabvala
  • Bill T. Jones
  • E.J. Kahn, Jr. 
  • Maira Kalman
  • Stefan Kanfer
  • Justin Kaplan
  • Alfred Kazin
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Thomas Keneally
  • George Kennan
  • William Kennedy
  • Jamaica Kincaid
  • Galway Kinnell
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Carolyn Kizer
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Hilary Knight
  • John Knowles
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Jerzy Kosinski
  • Jill Krementz
  • Stanley Kunitz
  • Tony Kushner
  • Jhumpa Lahiri
  • David Leavitt
  • Paul LeClerc
  • Ming Cho Lee
  • Nicholas Lemann
  • Jill Lepore
  • Elmore Leonard
  • Jonathan Lethem
  • Philip Levine
  • David Levering Lewis
  • R.W.B. Lewis
  • Alan Lomax
  • Barry Lopez
  • Bette Bao Lord
  • Walter Lord
  • J. Anthony Lukas
  • Alison Lurie
  • Peter Maas
  • Norman Mailer
  • Bernard Malamud
  • William Manchester
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Norman Manea
  • D. Keith Mano
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Javier Marías 
  • Paule Marshall
  • Steve Martin
  • Robert K. Massie
  • Peter Matthiessen
  • William Maxwell
  • Mary McCarthy
  • J.D. McClatchy
  • David McCullough
  • Audra McDonald
  • Ian McEwan
  • William S. McFeely
  • Jay McInerney
  • Terrence McNally
  • John McPhee
  • James M. McPherson
  • Gita Mehta
  • Ved Mehta
  • Natalie Merchant
  • William Meredith
  • Eve Merriam
  • James Merrill
  • Nancy Milford
  • Arthur Miller
  • Joseph Mitchell 
  • Jessica Mitford
  • Herbert Mitgang
  • Brian Moore
  • Susanna Moore
  • Edmund Morris
  • Richard Brandon Morris
  • Toni Morrison
  • Walter Mosley
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Bharati Mukherjee
  • David Nasaw
  • Gloria Naylor
  • Richard Nelson
  • Mike Nichols
  • Hugh Nissenson
  • Peggy Noonan
  • Jessye Norman
  • Marsha Norman
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Martha Craven Nussbaum
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Edna O'Brien
  • Michael Ondaatje
  • Cynthia Ozick
  • Orhan Pamuk
  • Gordon Parks
  • Katherine Paterson
  • Ernst Pawel
  • Jarolslav Pelikan
  • Harold Pinter
  • George Plimpton
  • Richard Poirier
  • Chaim Potok
  • Emily Prager
  • Richard Price
  • E. Annie Proulx
  • Anna Quindlen
  • Gregory Rabassa
  • Arnold Rampersad
  • Claudia Rankine
  • Diane Ravitch
  • Richard Reeves
  • David Remnick
  • James Reston
  • John Rewald
  • John Richardson
  • Mordecai Richler
  • Jerome Robbins
  • Marilynne Robinson
  • Rozana Robinson
  • Phyllis Rose
  • Judith Rossner
  • Philip Roth
  • Berton Roueche
  • Milton Rugoff
  • Sir Salman Rushdie
  • John Russell
  • Edward W. Said
  • Harrison E. Salisbury
  • Mark Salzman
  • Ronald Sanders
  • Simon Schama
  • Stacy Schiff
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • Gjertrud Schnackenberg
  • Budd Schulberg
  • Martin Scorsese
  • Vincent Scully
  • Lore Segal
  • Amartya Sen
  • Maurice Sendak
  • Wilfrid Sheed
  • Neil Sheehan
  • Susan Sheehan
  • Gail Sheehy
  • William Shirer
  • Robert B. Silvers
  • Kate Simon
  • Eileen Simpson
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Zadie Smith
  • Stephen Sondheim
  • Susan Sontag
  • Jonathan Spence
  • Elizabeth Spencer 
  • Stephen Spender
  • Art Spiegelman
  • Steven Spielberg
  • Francis Steegmuller
  • Wallace Stegner
  • Leo Steinberg
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Robert Stone
  • Tom Stoppard
  • Susan Stroman 
  • Elizabeth Strout
  • William Styron
  • May Swenson
  • Gay Talese
  • Billy Taylor
  • Peter Taylor
  • Julie Taymor
  • Lewis Thomas
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Lionel Tiger
  • Colm Tóibín 
  • Calvin Tomkins
  • Laurence Tribe
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Barbara Tuchman
  • Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Kurt Vonnegut
  • Derek Walcott
  • Darren Walker
  • Robert James Waller
  • Robert Penn Warren
  • Wendy Wasserstein
  • James D. Watson
  • Cornel West
  • Paul West 
  • Christopher Wheeldon
  • Theodore White
  • Colson Whitehead
  • Tom Wicker
  • Elie Wiesel
  • Isabel Wilkerson
  • Garry Wills
  • August Wilson
  • Robert Wilson
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Frederick Wiseman
  • George C. Wolfe
  • Tom Wolfe
  • C. Vann Woodward
  • Herman Wouk
  • Charles Wright
  • Gao Xingjian
  • William Zinsser