List of Past
Winners
Several of the books listed below are out of print, but you should be able
to find them at your local library. The titles with links are available for
purchase, so check your local bookstore or click on any one to look into ordering
it from Amazon.com.
2005
Fiction
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
1999
Fiction
Michael Cunningham, 80MFA
The Hours
Listen to the author read from The Hours (Real Audio)
1999
Poetry
Mark Strand, 62MA
A Blizzard of One
(Also a former UI faculty member)
Listen to the author read
From a Litany (Real Audio)
1998
Poetry
Charles Wright, 63MFA
Black Zodiac
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
See the IAQ Summer Reading
List for our recommendation of this title.
1998
Fiction
Philip Roth
American Pastoral
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1996
Poetry
Jorie Graham, 78MFA
The Dream of the Unified Field
(Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1995
Poetry
Philip Levine, 57MFA
The Simple Truth
(Also a former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1993
Investigative Reporting
Steve Berry
(Journalism faculty member)
For exposing the unjust seizure of millions of dollars from motorists by
a sheriff's drug squad, published in the Orlando Sentinel with coauthor Jeff
Brazil
1993
Explanatory Journalism
Mike Toner, 66BA
For the series, "When Bugs Bite Back," published in the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
1993
Poetry
Louise Glück
The Wild Iris
(Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1993
Fiction
Robert Olen Butler, 69MA
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
See the IAQ Summer Reading List for our recommendation of another Butler
title.
1992
Poetry
James Tate, 67MFA
Selected Poems
(Also a former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1992
Fiction
Jane Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD
A Thousand Acres
(Also a former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1991
Poetry
Mona Van Duyn, 43MA
Near Changes
(Born in Waterloo, Iowa, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate)
1987
Poetry
Rita Dove, 77MFA
Thomas and Beulah
(Also a former Writers' Workshop faculty member and twice U.S. Poet Laureate)
1986
Feature Writing
John Camp, 66BA, 71MA
For his work at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch
1985
Poetry
Carolyn Kizer
Yin
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1983
Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
For his work at the Los Angeles Times
An example of Conrad's work (from 1978)
1983
Editorial Cartooning
Richard Locher
For his work at the Chicago Tribune
(Former UI student)
1982
General Non-Fiction
Tracy Kidder, 74MFA
The Soul of a New Machine
1980
Poetry
Donald Justice, 54PhD
Selected Poems
1980
Poetry
Robert Penn Warren
Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978
1979
Fiction
John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1978
Fiction
James Alan McPherson, 71MFA
Elbow Room
(Currently a Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1974
Poetry
Robert Lowell
The Dolphin
1972
Fiction
Wallace Stegner, 32MA, 35PhD
Angle of Repose
(Born in Lake Mills, Iowa)
1971
Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
For his work at the Los Angeles Times
1970
Commentary
Marquis Childs, 25MA
For his work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
1968
Poetry
Anthony Hecht
The Hard Hours
(Former UI student)
1965
Poetry
John Berryman
77 Dream Songs
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
Listen to the author read Dream Song 1 (Real Audio)
1964
Editorial Cartooning
Paul Conrad, 50BA
For his work at the Denver Post
1960
Poetry
W. D. Snodgrass, 49BA, 51MA, 53MFA
Heart's Needle
Listen to the author read from Heart's Needle (Real Audio)
1958
Poetry
Robert Penn Warren
Promises: Poems 1954-46
1955
Drama
Tennessee Williams, 38BA
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1954
National Reporting
Richard Wilson
For his exclusive publication of the FBI Report to the White House in the
Harry Dexter White case prior to its being laid before the Senate by J.
Edgar Hoover, Des Moines Register Tribune. (Former UI student)
1952
Photography
Don Ultang, 39BA
For his work at the Des Moines Register and Tribune
1948
Drama
Tennessee Williams, 38BA
A Streetcar Named Desire
(Williams studied in the theatre department with E.C. Mabie, et al.)
1947
Poetry
Robert Lowell
Lord Weary's Castle
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1947
Novel
Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men
(Former Writers' Workshop faculty member)
1939
History
Frank Luther Mott
A History of American Magazines
(Mott was director of the School of Journalism before Wilbur Schramm took
over in 1943.)
