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The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships (1965-2024)

prizes

education

gender

race

MFA

dataset

This dataset contains a comprehensive list of the writers sponsored by NEA fellowships from the organization’s founding in 1965 to 2024, including information about those writers’ demographics, education, and geography.

Alexander Manshel

The Nordic Noir in Translation Database 2000–2020

translation

genre fiction

dataset

This dataset contains bibliographic records of all translations of Nordic crime fiction for adults, written in any of the five main Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish) and published in translation during the period 2000–2020.

Karl Berglund, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US

prizes

education

gender

MFA

dataset

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes datasets to the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.

Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, Stephanie Young

New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers (1931–2020)

bestsellers

fiction

dataset

The New York Times Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers includes datasets about bestselling books from 1931 and 2020.

HathiTrust Post45 Fiction (1945-2013)

metadata

fiction

dataset

This dataset contains metadata and HathiTrust IDs for fiction held by the HathiTrust Digital Library published between 1945 and 2013.

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

education

MFA

gender

dataset

The Program Era Project (PEP) has assembled three datasets related to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (IWW), one of the most prestigious MFA programs in the US.

Nicholas Kelley, Nicoel White, Loren Glass