The St. Louis Literary Award was established in 1967 by the St. Louis Library Associates, a literary board made up of members of the University and community. Some of the past Literary Award recipients include Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Arundhati Roy, Mario Vargas Llosa, August Wilson, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Albee, Saul Bellow, Chinua Achebe, Michael Chabon, Eudora Welty, Seamus Heaney, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, and Stephen Sondheim.
