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Over the years, UUÖ±²¥ has hosted major American and international authors whose works have earned Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, and many other distinctions. Below are lists of Series participants from 1985-2005.

2004-05: Charles Baxter, Paula Fox, Richard Howard, Edward P. Jones, Mary Karr, Antonya Nelson, Adrienne Rich, and Charles Wright.

2003-04: Anne Carson, Margaret Drabble, James Fenton, Anthony Hecht, Daniel Hoffman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Karl Kirchwey, Robert Pinsky, Grace Schulman, Susan Stewart, and August Wilson.

2002-03: Peter Cameron, Sandra Cisneros, Umberto Eco, Nadine Gordimer, Jessica Hagedorn, Stanley, Kunitz, James Lasdun, Ian McEwan, Sigrid Nunez, and Derek Walcott.

2001-02: Ann Beattie, Louise Glück, Maureen Howard, Phillip Lopate, Heather McHugh, Amos Oz, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Lore Segal.

2000-01: Carol DeChellis Hill, Samuel Delaney, Carol Ann Duffy, Shirley Hazzard, Li-Young Lee, and Joyce Carol Oates.

1999-00: Marilyn Hacker, Kimiko Hahn, Gish Jen, Elizabeth Mosier, and Sharon Olds.

1998-99: Billy Collins, María Irene Fornés, Mary Gordon, and Lorrie Moore.

1997-98: Nina Auerbach, Andrea Barrett, Esmeralda Santiago, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

1996-97: Anita Desai, Mary Oliver, Katha Pollitt, and Susan Power.

1995-96: Dorothy Allison, Anna Quindlen, and Sonia Sanchez.

1994-95: Rita Mae Brown, Kimiko Hahn, and Deborah Jowitt.

1993-94: Diane Ackerman, Jessica Hagedorn, Frances Stokes Hoekstra, and Diane Wakoski.

1992-93: Lynn Emanuel.

1991-92: Rachel Simon and Elaine Terranova.

1990-91: Gail Galloway Adams, Marilyn Hacker, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon.

1989-90: Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Painter.

1988-89: Mary Oliver, Karen Rile, Jeanne Walker, and Lisa Zeidner.

1987-88: Kirsten Hunter, Josephine Jacobsen, Valentine Sinkevich, and Hilma Wolitzer.

1986-87: Jorie Graham, Cynthia Ozick, Katha Pollitt, and Sharon Sheehe Starke.

1985-86: Jorie Graham, Denise Levertov, and Lynne Sharon Schwartz.