Library Lions: Former Honorees
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