HONOR

Awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ran Blake	Pianist	20-Apr-1935		Third Stream composer
Wayne C. Booth	Critic	22-Feb-1921	10-Oct-2005	The Rhetoric of Fiction
Richard Brautigan	Author	30-Jan-1935	14-Oct-1984	So the Wind Won't Blow it All Away
Rosellen Brown	Author	12-May-1939		Before and After
Janet Burroway	Novelist	21-Sep-1936		The Dancer from the Dance
Jerome Charyn	Novelist	13-May-1937		The Good Policeman
Alan Cheuse	Novelist	23-Jan-1940		The Bohemians
Sandra Cisneros	Author	20-Dec-1954		The House on Mango Street
Chuck Close	Painter	5-Jul-1940		Photo-realist portrait painter, printmaker
Jennifer Egan	Novelist	6-Sep-1962		A Visit from the Goon Squad
Frances D. Fergusson	Educator	3-Oct-1944		President of Vassar, 1986-2006
Carolyn Forché	Poet	28-Apr-1950		The Country Between Us
Richard Ford	Novelist	16-Feb-1944		Independence Day
Llyn Foulkes	Painter	1935		Assemblage artist
Paul Hendrickson	Author	29-Apr-1944		Hemingway's Boat
Oscar Hijuelos	Novelist	24-Aug-1951		The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
J. J. Johnson	Jazz Musician	22-Jan-1924	4-Feb-2001	Jazz trombonist
Donald Kagan	Historian	1-May-1932		The Great Dialogue
Etheridge Knight	Poet	19-Apr-1931	10-Mar-1991	Poems from Prison
Richard Kostelanetz	Artist	14-May-1940		Prodigious avant-garde artist and author
Bobbie Ann Mason	Novelist	1-May-1940		In Country
Joseph McElroy	Novelist	21-Aug-1930		Lookout Cartridge
Errol Morris	Film Director	5-Feb-1948		Documentary filmmaker
Koko Taylor	Singer	28-Sep-1928	3-Jun-2009	"Wang Dang Doodle"
Ernest van den Haag	Scholar	15-Sep-1914	21-Mar-2002	Punishing Criminals
Margaret Walker	Novelist	7-Jul-1915	30-Nov-1998	Jubilee
Eugen Weber	Historian	24-Apr-1925	17-May-2007	The Western Tradition
Sean Wilentz	Historian	c. 1950		The Rise of American Democracy

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