Phillip Lopate, Edwin Frank Among Winners of Arts Academy Prizes

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its highest honors for excellence in the arts. Recipients were chosen by members of the Academy. Playwright Adrienne Kennedy and artist Kara Walker have been awarded the Gold Medals for Drama and Graphic Art, respectively. Actor, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith has been awarded the Medal for Spoken Language. Poet Edwin Frank has been recognized for his contributions to the arts as founder and editorial director as New York Review Books. And essayist, novelist, memoirist, and critic Phillip Lopate will receive the Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award, which comes with a prize of $100,000. 

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