<p>News</a> & Notes: Caro '57 wins National Humanities Medal - The Daily Princetonian
2009</a> National Humanities Medalists
Robert</a> Caro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities has just announced the winners of the 2009 National Humanities Medal. Among the eight honorees was Princeton graduate Robert Caro '57, the author of numerous important biographies. Among his many awards, Caro can claim two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Critic Circle Awards.</p>
<p>"The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nations understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans access to important resources in the humanities."</p>
<p> Robert A. Caro,
Annette Gordon-Reed,
David Levering Lewis,
William H. McNeill,
Phillippe de Montebello,
Albert H. Small,
Theodore C. Sorensen
Elie Wiesel.</p>
<p>One of the most important American non-fiction writers in the country is both a Princeton alumnus and teacher of writing at Princeton. John McPhee '53 (John</a> McPhee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) has long taught non-fiction writing at Princeton alongside Joyce Carol Oates, Chang-rae Lee and (now a professor emeritus) Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Other current faculty members include Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Muldoon, C.K. Williams and many others.</p>
<p>Princeton has produced many prominent writers including novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald 17, poets William Meredith 40, Galway Kinnell 48, and W.S. Merwin 48 and recent graduates Jane Hirshfield 73, Jodi Picoult 87 and Jonathan Safran Foer 99.</p>
<p>More information about the writing program at Princeton can be found here:</p>