Recipients of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

2010.  Seth Lerer, Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter.

2009.  Geoffrey Hill, Critical Writings.

2008.  Susan Small, The Long Life.

2007.  William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts.

2006.  Geoffrey Hartman and Daniel T. O'Hara, The Geoffrey Hartman Reader.

2005. Angus Fletcher, A New Theory for American Poetry.

2004. Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses.

2003. Seamus Heaney, Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001.

2002. Declan Kiberd, Irish Classics.

2001. Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars.

2000. Elaine Scarry, Dreaming by the Book and Philip Fisher,  Still the New World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction.

1999. Charles Rosen, Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen.

1998. John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon.

1997. John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew.

1996. Helen Vendler, The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition.