More than 30 journalists and non-fiction writers have been chosen as MacArthur Fellows since 1981. Sarah Stillman, a staff writer at The New Yorker, is the latest to join that list.
Stillman’s fellowship comes with “a no-strings-attached $625,000 grant for their exceptional creativity and potential for future contributions to their fields,” according to the press release. Stillman, a longform investigative journalist, has written about the lives of foreign workers on U.S. Army bases and about what happens when juveniles are put on the sex-offender list.
New Yorker staffers had a pretty good 2016 so far, too, including two Pulitzer wins.
Here’s a look at other journalists and non-fiction writers who’ve also been named MacArthur Fellows in the past.
- 2015:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 2012:
- David Finkel
- Dinaw Mengestu
- 2011:
- Jad Abumrad
- Peter Hessler
- 2009:
- Lynsey Addario
- Jerry Mitchell
- 2008:
- Alex Ross
- 2006:
- Adrian LeBlanc
- 2001:
- Jean Strouse
- 2000:
- David A. Isay
- 1999:
- Mark Danner
- 1994:
- Hugo Morales
- 1993:
- William H. Siemering
- 1991:
- Paul Berman
- 1989:
- W. Keith Hefner
- 1986:
- Thomas Whiteside
- 1983:
- William Kennedy
- 1982:
- William Gaddis
- 1981:
- James A. McPherson
