HONORS
 Illustration by Pamela R. Levy from a photo by Michael V. Carlisle |
Mr. Warren was awarded
three Pulitzer Prizes and is, thus far, the only writer to have been awarded the Pulitzer
for both fiction and poetry.
HONORS *AWARDS * PRIZES
| 1928-30 Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University |
| 1936 Helen Haire Levinson Prize for Poetry; Caroline Sinkler Prize for Poetry of South Carolina |
| 1937 Caroline Sinkler Prize |
| 1938 Caroline Sinkler Prize |
| 1942 Poet of the Month Award for Eleven Poems On the Same Theme |
| 1943 Shelly Memorial Award |
| 1944 1944-45 Second Occupant of the Chair of Poetry at Library of Congress |
| 1947 Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men; Southern Author's Award (Southern Women's National Democratic Organization) |
| 1949 Robert Meltzer Award of the Screen Writers' Guild for All the King's Men; Honorary D.Litt. from the University of Louisville |
| 1950 Membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters; Chancellor, American Academy of Poets; Distinguished Alumnus Award, from Vanderbilt University |
| 1952 Honorary D.Litt. from Kenyon College; Elected to The American Philosophical Society |
| 1956 Honorary D.Litt. from Colby College |
| 1957 Sidney Hillman Award for Journalism; Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize of the American Poetry Society; Honorary D.Litt. from University of Kentucky |
| 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Promises: Poems, 1954-1956; National Book Award for Promises: Poems, 1954-1956; Membership in The Century Association |
| 1959 Selected for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters; Honorary D.Litt. from Swarthmore College |
| 1960 Honorary D.Litt. from Yale University |
| 1965 Irita Van Doren Award; Honorary LLD from University of Bridgeport |
| 1967 Bolligen Prize in Poetry; 1967-68 Member, English Committee of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College |
| 1968 National Arts Foundation Award |
| 1969 Honorary D. Litt. from Fairfield University |
| 1970 National Medal of Literature; Van Wyck Brooks Award; Henry A. Bellaman Prize, all for Audubon: A Vision; Honorary D.Litt. from Wesleyn University |
| 1972 Fall. Ten Best Teachers Award, Yale; Chancellor, American Academy of Poets |
| 1973 University of South Carolina Award for Distinction in Literature; Honorary D.Litt. from Harvard University and from New Haven University |
| 1974 Delivers Third Annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities (NEH); Honorary D.Litt. from University of the South, from Southwestern College, and from University of Meridian(TN); Honorary Fellow, MLA |
| 1975 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Emerson-Thoreau Award from AAAS |
| 1976 Copernicus Award for Or Else---Poem/Poems, 1968-1974 from the Academy of American Poets; Borestone Mountain Poetry Award |
| 1977 Harriet Monroe Prize for Poetry; Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., Award from Associates of St. Louis University Libraries; Honorary D.Litt. from Johns Hopkins University |
| 1978 Honorary D.Humane Letters from Berea College (KY) |
| 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 |
| 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1981 Receives MacArthur Prize Fellowship |
| 1984 Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University |
| 1985 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Poetry |
| 1986 Appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (First Poet Laureate of the United States) |
| 1987 National Medal of Arts |
