Read about the recipients of the Langston Hughes Medal James Baldwin (1978) Gwendolyn Brooks (1979) John Oliver Killens (1980) Toni Cade Bambara (1981) Paule Marshall (1981) Toni Morrison (1981) Sterling A. Brown (1982) Margaret Walker Alexander (1983) Ralph Ellison (1984) Raymond R. Patterson (1986) Dennis Brutus (1987) Alice Walker (1988) Amiri Baraka (1989) Maya Angelou (1991) Alice Chidress (1990) August Wilson (1992) Chinua Achebe (1993) Ernest James Gaines (1994) Ishmael Reed (1995) Nikki Giovanni (1996) Alberty Murray (1997) George Lamming (1998) Sonia Sanchez (1999) Wole Soyinka (2000) Jayne Cortez (2001) Derek Walcott (2002) Lucille Clifton (2003) James A. Emanuel (2003) Arnold Rampersad (2003) Sekou Sundiata (2003) John Edgar Wideman (2004) Octavia E. Butler (2005)
