Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
The award is administered for the Truman Capote estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. The $50,000 award is the largest cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.
| 1996 | Helen Vendler, The Given and the Made |
| 1997 | John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew |
| 1998 | John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy |
| 1999 | Charles Rosen, Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen |
| 2000 | Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book; Philip Fisher, Still the New World |
| 2001 | Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars |
| 2002 | Declan Kiberd, Irish Classics |
| 2003 | Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971–2001 |
| 2004 | Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses |
| 2005 | Angus Fletcher, A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination |
| 2006 | Geoffrey Hartman, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader |
| 2007 | William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts |
| 2008 | Helen Small, The Long Life |
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