William Dean Howells Medal

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The William Dean Howells Medal is a prestigious American literary award presented by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for outstanding achievement in fiction, typically recognizing a distinguished novel.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary award
alsoKnownAs William Dean Howells Medal
surface form: "William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction"
associatedWith American literature
novel writing
awardFor distinguished novel
outstanding achievement in fiction
country United States of America
surface form: "United States"
eligibility authors of distinguished works of fiction
field fiction writing
literature
frequency approximately every five years
genre fiction
hasLanguage English
hasRecipient Don DeLillo
Eudora Welty
James Baldwin
John Updike
Katherine Anne Porter
Norman Mailer
Philip Roth
Saul Bellow
Toni Morrison
William Faulkner
inception 1925
namedAfter William Dean Howells
namedForOccupation editor
literary critic
novelist
notableType American literary award
presentedBy American Academy of Arts and Letters
scope national
selectionMethod conferred by members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
status prestigious award

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William Dean Howells Medal alsoKnownAs William Dean Howells Medal
this entity surface form: "William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction"
Don DeLillo awardReceived William Dean Howells Medal
Theodore Dreiser awardReceived William Dean Howells Medal
this entity surface form: "Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters"
Thomas Pynchon awardReceived William Dean Howells Medal