A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901–1991)

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1. A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

   Author of The Big Sky, The Way West, Fair Land, Fair Land

2. Louis L'Amour

   Author of Sackett, Ride the Dark Trail, Lonely on the Mountain

3. Larry McMurtry

   Author of Lonesome Dove, Boone's Lick, Duane's Depressed

4. Ivan Doig

   Author of Bucking the Sun, Prairie Nocturne: A Novel, Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

5. Wallace Stegner

   Author of Angle of Repose, The Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Spectator Bird

6. James Gould Cozzens

   Author of Guard of Honor, By Love Possessed, Children and Others

7. Conrad Richter

   Author of The Town, The Sea of Grass, Tacey Cromwell

8. Bernard DeVoto

   Author of Across the Wide Missouri

9. Robert Lewis Taylor

   Author of The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters

10. MacKinlay Kantor

    Author of Andersonville

11. H. L. Davis

    Author of Honey in the Horn

12. Walter van Tilburg Clark

    Author of The Ox-Bow Incident, The Track of the Cat

13. Edwin O'Connor

    Author of The Edge of Sadness

14. Julia Mood Peterkin

    Author of Scarlet Sister Mary

15. Ernest Poole

    Author of His Family

16. John Hershey

    Author of A Bell for Adano, Under the Eye of the Storm

17. John P. Marquand

    Author of The Late George Apley, H.M. Pulham, Esquire

18. Martin Flavin

    Author of Journey in the Dark

19. Gontran de Poncins

    Author of Kabloona

20. Louis Bromfield

    Author of Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady