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.
1928-30 Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University
1936 Helen Haire Levinson Prize for Poetry; Caroline Sinkler Prize from the Poetry
Society 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 Shelley Memorial Award
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 Bollingen 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 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)