Robert Kirsch Award

2023 Jane Smiley
2022 James Ellroy
2021 Luis J Rodriguez
2020 Leslie Marmon Silko
2019 Walter Mosley
2018 Terry Tempest Williams
2017 John Rechy
2016 Thomas McGuane
2015 Juan Felipe Herrera
2014 T C Boyle
2013 Susan Straight
2012 Kevin Starr
2011 Rudolfo Anaya
2010 Beverly Cleary
2009 Evan S Connell
2008 Robert Alter
2007 Maxine Hong Kingston
2006 William Kittredge
2005 Joan Didion
2005 Janet Lewis
2004 Tony Hillerman
2003 Ishmael Reed
2002 Larry McMurtry
2001 Tillie Olsen
2000 Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1999 Ursula K Le Guin
1998 John Sanford
1997 Ray Bradbury
1996 Gary Snyder
1995 Stephen J Pyne
1994 Brian Moore
1993 Carolyn See
1992 Diane Johnson
1991 Ken Kesey
1990 Czeslaw Milosz
1989 Karl Shapiro
1988 Thom Gunn
1987 Paul Horgan
1986 Kay Boyle
1985 Janet Lewis
1984 Christopher Isherwood
1983 M F K Fisher
1982 Ross MacDonald
1981 Wright Morris
1980 Wallace Stegner