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Hale Award Winners

  • 1956 Robert Frost
  • 1957 John P. Marquand
  • 1958 Archibald MacLeish and Dorothy Canfield Fisher
  • 1959 Mary Ellen Chase
  • 1960 Mark Van Doren
  • 1961 Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • 1962 David McCord
  • 1963 John Hersey
  • 1964 Ogden Nash
  • 1965 Louis Untermeyer and Raymond Holden
  • 1966 Robert Lowell
  • 1967 John Kenneth Galbraith
  • 1968 Richard Wilbur
  • 1969 Lawrance Thompson
  • 1970 Elizabeth Yates
  • 1971 Norman Cousins
  • 1972 May Sarton
  • 1973 Henry Steele Commager
  • 1974 Nancy Hale
  • 1975 Edwin Way Teale
  • 1976 John Ciardi
  • 1977 Roger Tory Peterson
  • 1978/79 James MacGregor Burns
  • 1982 Richard Eberhart
  • 1983 Donald Hall
  • 1984 Barbara W. Tuchman
  • 1985 Stephen Jay Gould
  • 1986 Robert M. Coles
  • 1987 David McCullough
  • 1988 Hayden Carruth
  • 1989 Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • 1990 Arthur Miller
  • 1991 Michael Dorris
  • 1992 Maxine Kumin
  • 1993 William Manchester
  • 1994 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • 1995 Jill Ker Conway
  • 1996 Tom Wicker
  • 1997 Wesley McNair
  • 1998 Tracy Kidder
  • 1999 Russell Banks
  • 2000 Robert B. Parker
  • 2001 Anita Shreve
  • 2002 Ernest Hebert
  • 2003 Jay Parini
  • 2004 Charles Simic
  • 2005 Grace Paley
  • 2006 Ellen Goodman
  • 2007 Tomie dePaola
  • 2008 Ken Burns
  • 2009 Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • 2010 Geraldine Brooks
  • 2011 Galway Kinnell
  • 2012 Jill Lepore
  • 2013 Richard Russo
  • 2014 Bill McKibben
  • 2015  Alan Taylor
  • 2016  Sharon Olds
  • 2017 Julia Alvarez
  • 2018 Nathaniel Philbrick
  • 2019 Jodi Picoult
  • 2021 Sy Montgomery

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Upcoming Events

  • Brown Bags and Books Book Club
    Tuesday May 24, 2022
  • Family Story Time
    Wednesday May 25, 2022
  • Kid's Craft: Pinwheels!
    Thursday May 26, 2022
  • Poetry Group
    Thursday May 26, 2022
  • Closed For Memorial Day
    Monday May 30, 2022
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Friday
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Saturday
10:00 to 2:00

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Newport, NH 03773

Phone Number: (603) 863-3430

rfl@newport.lib.nh.us

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