Recipients of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature have included many of America’s most distinguished writers. Award honorees have received over 17 Pulitzer Prizes. All of these honorees, with the exception of those honored during the times of the Covid pandemic, were present to accept the award.
- 1996: William Styron
- 1997: John Barth
- 1998: Joyce Carol Oates
- 1999: E. L. Doctorow
- 2000: Norman Mailer
- 2001: Ernest J. Gaines
- 2002: John Updike
- 2003: Edward Albee
- 2004: Grace Paley
- 2005: Pat Conroy
- 2006: Jane Smiley
- 2007: William Kennedy
- 2008: Elmore Leonard
- 2009: Julia Alvarez
- 2010: Alice McDermott
- 2011: Maxine Hong Kingston
- 2013: Robert Olen Butler
- 2014: James Salter
- 2015: Richard Ford
- 2016: Garrison Keillor
- 2017: Annie Proulx
- 2018: Richard Russo
- 2019: Amy Tan
- 2020: Barbara Kingsolver
- 2021: John Edgar Wideman
- 2022: Richard Powers
- 2023: Jonathan Franzen
- 2024: Jesmyn Ward
- 2025: Percival Everett