Past Recipients of The Umhoefer Prize
2000
R.W. Franklin, Editor The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition Harvard University - Belknap Press - 1999
William E. Wallace, Author & Ellin Yassky, Editor Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture Hugh Lauter Levin Associates - 1998
D.S. Carne-Ross, Essayist "The Poem of Odysseus" Homer - The Odyssey (Fitzgerald Translation) Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 1998
2001
Elaine Kilmurray, Editor; Richard Ormond, Editor and Essayist; Mary Crawford Volk, Essayist; & Caroline Johnston, Designer John Singer Sargent
Tate Gallery Publishing - London Princeton University Press - 1998
2002-2003
Photographer: Jerome Liebling; Essayists: Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth, & Barton Levi St. Armand The Dickinsons of Amherst UPNE - 2001
2004
Andrew Ford, Essayist Homer - The Iliad (Fitzgerald Translation) Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 2004
2006
Richard Grossman, Editor & Barry Moser, Illustrator A Year With Emerson David R. Godine - 2003
Alice A. Carter, Author & Eric Mueller, Designer Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter In The Gilded Age Rizzoli New York - 2005
Sherod Santos, Translator Greek Lyric Poetry W. W. Norton - 2005
2007
Robert Fagles, Translator & Bernard Knox, Essayist Virgil: The Aeneid Viking - 2006
H. Anna Suh, Editor; Toshiya Masuda, Designer; Translators: Alayne Pullen, Alastair Weir & Cora Weir Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters
Black Dog & Leventhal - 2006
2008
David R. Slavitt, Translator The Theban Plays of Sophocles Yale University Press - 2007
2009
Walter Wells, Author; Editors: David Anfam & Julia Rolf Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper Phaidon Press - 2007
2010
Stanley Lombardo, Translator; Sheila Murnaghan, Essayist & W.R. Johnson, Essayist Homer - Iliad Hackett Publishing Company - Indianapolis/Cambridge
Also: Homer - Odyssey & Virgil - Aeneid
2011
Jeffrey S. Cramer, Editor The Quotable Thoreau Princeton University Press - 2011
Richard Grossman, Editor & Barry Moser, Illustrator A Year With Emerson David R. Godine - 2003
2013
This year we honored three distinguished scholars in the art of motion pictures:
Hart Wegner, Teacher Master Film Professor at UNLV and UC Berkeley
David H. Shepard, Preservationist Educator and Advocate for Silent Cinema
David Thomson, Writer Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Alfred A. Knopf - 2008
R.W. Franklin, Editor The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition Harvard University - Belknap Press - 1999
William E. Wallace, Author & Ellin Yassky, Editor Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture Hugh Lauter Levin Associates - 1998
D.S. Carne-Ross, Essayist "The Poem of Odysseus" Homer - The Odyssey (Fitzgerald Translation) Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 1998
2001
Elaine Kilmurray, Editor; Richard Ormond, Editor and Essayist; Mary Crawford Volk, Essayist; & Caroline Johnston, Designer John Singer Sargent
Tate Gallery Publishing - London Princeton University Press - 1998
2002-2003
Photographer: Jerome Liebling; Essayists: Christopher Benfey, Polly Longsworth, & Barton Levi St. Armand The Dickinsons of Amherst UPNE - 2001
2004
Andrew Ford, Essayist Homer - The Iliad (Fitzgerald Translation) Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 2004
2006
Richard Grossman, Editor & Barry Moser, Illustrator A Year With Emerson David R. Godine - 2003
Alice A. Carter, Author & Eric Mueller, Designer Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter In The Gilded Age Rizzoli New York - 2005
Sherod Santos, Translator Greek Lyric Poetry W. W. Norton - 2005
2007
Robert Fagles, Translator & Bernard Knox, Essayist Virgil: The Aeneid Viking - 2006
H. Anna Suh, Editor; Toshiya Masuda, Designer; Translators: Alayne Pullen, Alastair Weir & Cora Weir Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait in Art and Letters
Black Dog & Leventhal - 2006
2008
David R. Slavitt, Translator The Theban Plays of Sophocles Yale University Press - 2007
2009
Walter Wells, Author; Editors: David Anfam & Julia Rolf Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper Phaidon Press - 2007
2010
Stanley Lombardo, Translator; Sheila Murnaghan, Essayist & W.R. Johnson, Essayist Homer - Iliad Hackett Publishing Company - Indianapolis/Cambridge
Also: Homer - Odyssey & Virgil - Aeneid
2011
Jeffrey S. Cramer, Editor The Quotable Thoreau Princeton University Press - 2011
Richard Grossman, Editor & Barry Moser, Illustrator A Year With Emerson David R. Godine - 2003
2013
This year we honored three distinguished scholars in the art of motion pictures:
Hart Wegner, Teacher Master Film Professor at UNLV and UC Berkeley
David H. Shepard, Preservationist Educator and Advocate for Silent Cinema
David Thomson, Writer Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Alfred A. Knopf - 2008
