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Caryle Murphy Has Died. She Earned a Pulitzer for Reporting in Kuwait. • Oct. 25, 2026, 12:53 PM ET (New York Times)
Caryle Murphy, who won the Pulitzer Prize reporting from Kuwait, dies at 79 • Oct. 22, 2026, 1:00 PM ET (Washington Post)
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The festival headliners, announced Thursday, range from National Book Award-winners to a former U.S. poet laureate. • Oct. 15, 2026, 12:30 AM ET (Sante Fe New Mexican)

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Notable Honorees John F. Kennedy • George Gershwin • Bob Dylan • Eugene O’Neill • William Faulkner • Ernest Hemingway • Robert Frost • Laura E. Richards • Jason Miller • Herb Caen • Will Durant • Russel Crouse • Junot Díaz • Ariel Durant • Howard Lindsay • Esther Forbes • Jonathan Larson • Mary Coyle Chase • Charles Edward Russell • Peter Arnett • Ada Louise Huxtable • Wynton Marsalis • John Steinbeck • Charles Lindbergh • Larry McMurtry • Dr. Seuss • Cormac McCarthy • Sylvia Plath • Margaret Mitchell • Julie K. Brown • Kendrick Lamar • Henry Adams • John Coltrane • Lynn Nottage • Alice Walker • W. H. Auden • E.O. Wilson • Ray Bradbury • Viet Thanh Nguyen • Jericho Brown • Duke Ellington • Toni Morrison • Frederick Jackson Turner • Gwendolyn Brooks • Elizabeth Strout • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins • Isabel Wilkerson • Rita Dove • Annie Proulx • John J. Pershing • Nikole Hannah-Jones • Samantha Power • Yusef Komunyakaa • Marilynne Robinson • Harper Lee • Richard Rodgers • John Adams • Anna Quindlen • Annie Dillard • Barbara Kingsolver • Robert Lowell • Aaron Copland • Upton Sinclair • Jhumpa Lahiri • Tracy Letts • Joshua Logan • N. Scott Momaday • Dave Barry • Natalie Diaz • Saul Bellow • Stephen Greenblatt • Charles Ives • David Remnick • Robert Caro • Hank Williams • Art Spiegelman • Arthur Miller • Carl Sagan • Stephen Sondheim • Roger Ebert • David Mamet • Michael Chabon • Jeffrey Eugenides • Sam Shepard • Garry Wills • W.S. Merwin • August Wilson • Studs Terkel • Marvin Hamlisch • Charles Wright • John Cheever • Edith Wharton • Norman Mailer • John Updike • Elliott Carter • Paul Muldoon • Steve Reich • George F. Kennan • Ellen Taaffe Zwilich • Gary Snyder • Annie Baker • Gian Carlo Menotti • Seymour Hersh • Gunther Schuller • Philip Roth • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Elizabeth Bishop • Erik Erikson • Robert Penn Warren • Siddhartha Mukherjee • Willa Cather • Zhou Long • Pearl S. Buck • Edward Albee • Robert Schenkkan • Garry Trudeau • Donna Tartt • Barbara Tuchman • Tennessee Williams • Dean Baquet • Tracy K. Smith • Dean Acheson • Suzan-Lori Parks • David McCullough • Ornette Coleman • Thomas L. Friedman • Jules Feiffer • Maxine Kumin • Louise Glück • Robert Hass • Samuel Barber • Anne Tyler • Allan Nevins • James Agee • Neil Simon • John Corigliano • Susan Glaspell • David Hackett Fischer • Mark Van Doren • Jorie Graham • James Michener • Roger Sessions • William Bolcom • Wallace Stevens • John Berryman • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • Tony Kushner • Jennifer Egan • John McPhee • Carlos P. Romulo • Eudora Welty • Anne Sexton • Kay Ryan • Katherine Anne Porter • C.K. Williams • Edwin Arlington Robinson • Conrad Aiken • William Styron • C. Vann Woodward • Scott Joplin • Philip Levine • Mona Van Duyn • James Merrill • Wallace Stegner • Natasha Trethewey • Marc Connelly • Zona Gale • Anne Elizabeth O’Hare McCormick • Amy Lowell • Carol Shields • Anthony Hecht • Mary Oliver • William Carlos Williams • Doris Kearns Goodwin • James Alan McPherson • Jane Smiley • Frank Bidart • Robert E. Sherwood • William Sowden Sims • Charles Simic • Archibald MacLeish • E.B. White • John T. McCutcheon • Katharine Graham • David Halberstam • Carl Sandburg • Thornton Wilder • Oscar Hammerstein II • Russell Baker • Oscar Hijuelos • Howard Nemerov • Richard Ford • Stanley Kunitz • Daniel J. Boorstin • Thelonious Monk • George S. Kaufman • Louis Simpson • Phyllis McGinley • Bernard Malamud

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