The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US

prizes
education
gender
MFA
dataset
Authors

Claire Grossman

Juliana Spahr

Stephanie Young

Published

December 5, 2022

Doi

10.18737/CNJV1733p4520221212

Abstract
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.

Credit: National Book Foundation

The Index of Major Literary Prizes in the US includes two related datasets:  

  1. The first is a dataset of the winners and judges of prizes for prose, poetry, or unspecified genre between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over.
  2. The second contains records for volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library written by authors who won a prize in the prize winners dataset.

1. Major Literary Prize Winners and Judges

This dataset includes information about the winners and judges of literary prizes (for prose, poetry, or unspecified genres) between 1918 and 2020 with a purse of $10,000 and over. The dataset includes details about the winners of 52 unique prizes awarded by 22 institutions. For a subset of 39 prizes, it includes details about judges; not every prize has complete judge data. The dataset does not include prizes awarded specifically for children’s literature, nonfiction, drama, or translation.

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