Harper Lee: National Medal of Arts

Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is to be awarded the National Medal of Arts in a White House ceremony tomorrow.

Other writers getting awards:

• Robert Brustein for contributions to the American theatre
• Donald Hall for contributions to American poetry.
• Bernard Bailyn, author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning works, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution and Voyagers to the West
• Jacques Barzun, author of dozens of books of cultural history
• Wendell E. Berry, poet and  novelist
• Joyce Carol Oates, novelist, poet, short story and nonfiction writer
• Arnold Rampersad, biographer and literary critic
• Philip Roth, author of 24 novels
• Gordon Wood, author and editor of 18 books dealing with the founding of America
• Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, literary critic, and author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative

For the complete list, go HERE.

Hat Tip: Linda at Great Performances