<Ul> <Li> 1930: Sinclair Lewis (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1936: Eugene O'Neill (playwright) </Li> <Li> 1938: Pearl S. Buck (biographer and novelist) </Li> <Li> 1948: T.S. Eliot (poet and playwright) </Li> <Li> 1949: William Faulkner (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1954: Ernest Hemingway (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1962: John Steinbeck (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1976: Saul Bellow (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer (novelist, wrote in Yiddish) </Li> <Li> 1987: Joseph Brodsky (poet and essayist, wrote in English and Russian) </Li> <Li> 1993: Toni Morrison (novelist) </Li> <Li> 2016: Bob Dylan (songwriter) </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1930: Sinclair Lewis (novelist) </Li> <Li> 1936: Eugene O'Neill (playwright) </Li> <Li> 1938: Pearl S. Buck (biographer and novelist) </Li>

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