New York State Writers Hall of Fame

The New York State Writers Hall of Fame or NYS Writers Hall of Fame is a project established in 2010 by the Empire State Center for the Book and the Empire State Book Festival and headquartered at the New York State Library in Albany, New York. The Hall of Fame was established "to highlight the rich literary heritage of the New York State and to recognize the legacy of individual New York State writers."

New writers, both living and deceased, have been inducted annually since 2010. The induction ceremony for the Class of 2015, which includes three living and four deceased writers, took place on June 2, 2015, at the Princeton Club of New York in New York City. The 2016 induction ceremony is scheduled to take place on June 7, 2016.

List of Hall of Fame members

Inaugural class of 2010

• James Baldwin (1924–1987)
• Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
• Robert Caro (b. 1935)
• Frederick Douglass (1818–1895)
• Mary Gordon (b. 1949)
• Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991)
• Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
• E. B. White (1899–1985)
• Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

Class of 2011

• John Ashbery (b. 1927)
• Willa Cather (1873–1947)
• Julia de Burgos (1914–1953)
• Ralph Ellison (1914–1994)
• Paula Fox (b. 1923)
• Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
• Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007)
• Herman Melville (1819–1891)
• Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

Class of 2012

• John Cheever (1912–1982)
• Hart Crane (1899–1932)
• E. L. Doctorow (1931–2015)
• Edna Ferber (1885–1968)
• Pete Hamill (b. 1935)
• Washington Irving (1783–1859)
• Henry James (1843–1916)
• Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
• Marianne Moore (1887–1972)
• Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
• Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
• Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989)
• Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)
• Richard Wright (1908–1960)

Class of 2013

• James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
• Countee Cullen (1903–1946)
• Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942)
• Alice McDermott (b. 1953)
• Walter Mosley (b. 1952)
• Miguel Piñero (1946–1988)
• Maurice Sendak (1928–2012)
• Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)

Class of 2014

• Russell Banks (b. 1940)
• Mary Higgins Clark (b. 1929)
• Nora Ephron (1941–2012)
• Alice Hoffman (b. 1952)
• Maurice Kenny (1929-2016)
• Rex Stout (1886–1975)
• James Thurber (1894–1961)

Class of 2015

• Isaac Asimov (1920?–1992)
• Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997)
• Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983)
• Dawn Powell (1896–1965)
• Francine Prose (b. 1947)
• David Remnick (b. 1958)
• Colm Tóibín (b. 1955)

Class of 2016

(To be inducted June 7, 2016)

• Roger Angell (b. 1920)
• Maya Angelou (1928–2014)
• Roz Chast (b. 1954)
• Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942)
• Jean Craighead George (1919–2012)
• Don Marquis (1878–1937)
• Grace Paley (1922-2007)
• Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)

See also

• List of halls and walks of fame