The Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters is a biennial prize given to an editor by the

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Description

The award was established in 1989 by a gift from

Morton N. Cohen Morton Norton Cohen (27 February 192112 June 2017) was a Canadian-born American author and scholar who was a professor at City University of New York. He is best known for his studies of children's author Lewis Carroll including the 1995 biography ...

, Professor Emeritus of English at the

City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY, pronounced , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven ...

. The award is presented each odd-numbered year.Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters: Competition in 2017 for Editions Published in 2015 or 2016
MLA, retrieved 2017-06-29 The 2017 prize will be awarded for a book published in 2015 or 2016.

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters: Winners
MLA, retrieved 2017-06-29 2011–12: Roger Kuin,

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

, for ''The Correspondence of

Sir Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. His works include a sonnet sequence, '' Astrophil and ...

'' 2009–10: Martha Dow Fehsenfeld,

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; Lois More Overbeck, Emory University; George Craig,

University of Sussex The University of Sussex is a public university, public research university, research university located in Falmer, East Sussex, England. It lies mostly within the city boundaries of Brighton and Hove. Its large campus site is surrounded by the ...

; and Dan Gunn,

American University of Paris The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe, and the first to be established in France. The university ...

; for ''The Letters of

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tra ...

, Volume 1: 1929–1940'' 2007–08: William G. Holzberger,

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, for ''The Letters of

George Santayana George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, Santayana was raised and educated in the Un ...

, Book Seven, 1941–1947 and Book Eight, 1948–1952'' 2005–06: John Kelly,

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, and Ronald Schuchard,

, for ''The Collected Letters of

W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (, 13 June 186528 January 1939), popularly known as W. B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer, and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the ...

, Volume 4'' 2003–04: Robert J. Bertholf, State University of New York, Buffalo, and Albert Gelpi,

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, for ''The Letters of Robert Duncan and

Denise Levertov Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her p ...

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* {{Prizes and Awards of the Modern Language Association American academic awards Awards established in 1989