- List of Hall of Fame members[2] Inaugural class of 2010 Class of 2011 Class of 2012 Class of 2013 Class of 2014 Class of 2015 Class of 2016 Class of 2017 Class of 2018
- See also
- References
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}}The New York State Writers Hall of Fame or NYS Writers Hall of Fame is a project established in 2010 by the Empire State Center for the Book and the Empire State Book Festival and headquartered at the New York State Library in Albany, New York. The Hall of Fame was established "to highlight the rich literary heritage of the New York State and to recognize the legacy of individual New York State writers."[1] New writers, both living and deceased, have been inducted annually since 2010. The six members of the Class of 2018, which includes three living and three deceased writers, were inducted at a dinner in Manhattan on June 5, 2018. List of Hall of Fame members[2]Inaugural class of 2010{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- James Baldwin (1924–1987)
- Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
- Robert Caro (b. 1935)
- Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
- Mary Gordon (b. 1949)
- Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991)
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
- E. B. White (1899–1985)
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
{{div col end}}Class of 2011{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- John Ashbery (1927-2017)
- Willa Cather (1873–1947)
- Julia de Burgos (1914–1953)
- Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)
- Paula Fox (1923–2017)
- Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007)
- Herman Melville (1819–1891)
- Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
{{div col end}}Class of 2012{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- John Cheever (1912–1982)
- Hart Crane (1899–1932)
- E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)
- Edna Ferber (1885–1968)
- Pete Hamill (b. 1935)
- Washington Irving (1783–1859)
- Henry James (1843–1916)
- Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
- Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
- Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
- Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
- Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
- Richard Wright (1908–1960)
{{div col end}}Class of 2013{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
- Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
- Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)
- Alice McDermott (b. 1953)
- Walter Mosley (b. 1952)
- Miguel Piñero (1946–1988)
- Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)
- Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
{{div col end}}Class of 2014{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Russell Banks (b. 1940)
- Mary Higgins Clark (b. 1929)
- Nora Ephron (1941–2012)
- Alice Hoffman (b. 1952)
- Maurice Kenny (1929–2016)
- Rex Stout (1886–1975)
- James Thurber (1894–1961)
{{div col end}}Class of 2015{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Isaac Asimov (1920?–1992)
- Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
- Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983)
- Dawn Powell (1896–1965)
- Francine Prose (b. 1947)
- David Remnick (b. 1958)
- Colm Tóibín (b. 1955)
{{div col end}}Class of 2016{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Roger Angell (b. 1920)
- Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
- Roz Chast (b. 1954)
- Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942)
- Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)
- Don Marquis (1878–1937)
- Grace Paley (1922–2007)
- Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
{{div col end}}Class of 2017{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Ron Chernow (b. 1949)
- Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804)
- William Kennedy (b. 1928)
- Christopher Morley (1890–1957)
- Walter Dean Myers (1937–2014)
- Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903)
- Lillian Ross (1918-2017)
{{div col end}}Class of 2018{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Ira Gershwin (1896-1983)
- E. L. Konigsburg (1930-2013)
- Jose Marti (1853-1895)
- Russell Shorto (b. 1959)
- Colson Whitehead (b. 1969)
- Jacqueline Woodson (b. 1963)
{{div col end}}See also{{portal|Literature|New York}}- List of halls and walks of fame
{{clear}}References1. ^New York State Writers Hall of Fame Official Site.
2. ^New York State Writers Hall of Fame Official Site.
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