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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


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