2006     Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, a 2006 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of Random Family: Love, Drugs,                        Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
2005     Benoit Denizet-Lewis is a Contributing Writer at The New York Times Magazine

2004     Melissa Fay Greene, author, Last Man Out; The Temple Bombing
2003     Terry Tempest Williams, author, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Red: Passion and                  Patience in the Desert
2002     Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, No Matter How Loud I Shout; Baby ER
2001     Susan Orlean, contributing writer, The New Yorker and author, The Orchid Thief; The Bullfighter Checks               her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People
2000     Alex Kotlowitz, author, There Are No Children Here; The Other Side of the River
1999     Peter Matthiessen, author, The Snow Leopard; In the Spirit of Crazy Horse; Zen Journals
1998     Randall Rothenberg, former contributing editor, Esquire; author, Where the Suckers Moon
1997     Barbara Ehrenreich, columnist, Time magazine; author, The Snarling Citizen
1996     James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
1995     Victor Navasky, The Nation
1993     Robin Morgan, Ms. magazine
1991     Ambassador "Bill" Lane Jr., Sunset magazine
1990     David Haupert, Magazine Group of Meredith Corporation
1990     Jack Fincher, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian
1988     Suzanne Braun Levine, former editor and vice president, Ms. magazine
1987     Richard Stolley, former editor of Life magazine
1986     Harold Hayes, former editor of Esquire
1984     Ray Cave, Time magazine