Two American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals are awarded each year by the academy for distinguished achievement. The two awards are taken in rotation from these categories:
Belles Lettres and Criticism, and Painting; Biography and Music; Fiction and Sculpture; History and Architecture, including Landscape Architecture; Poetry and Music; Drama and Graphic Art. The Academy voted in 1915 to establish an additional Gold Medal for "special distinction" to be given for the entire work of the recipient who is not a member of the academy. The first of these occasional lifetime achievement gold medals was awarded in the next year to former Harvard President, Charles Eliot. Awards in individual categories are listed below (in alphabetical order) followed by a list of all prizes in reverse chronological order:Source:
Architecture
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1912 – William Rutherford Mead
Belles lettres, criticism, essays
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Biography
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1976 – Leon Edel 1982 – Francis Steegmuller 1988 – James Thomas Flexner 1994 – Walter Jackson Bate 2000 – R. W. B. Lewis 2006 – Robert Caro 2012 – David McCullough 2018 – Ron Chernow 2024 – Doris Kearns Goodwin
Drama
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Fiction, novel, short story
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Graphic art
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History
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Music
Painting
Poetry
Sculpture
All winners
Source: American Academy of Arts and Letters List of Awards
List of American literary awards List of poetry awards List of art awards American literature American poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature List of years in art
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