Editing Conrad Aiken (section)

==Awards and recognition==
Named Poetry Consultant (now U.S. Poet Laureate) of the Library of Congress from 1950 to 1952, Aiken earned numerous prestigious writing honors, including a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1930 for ''Selected Poems'', the 1954 National Book Award for ''Collected Poems'',<ref name=nba1954>[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1954 "National Book Awards – 1954"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
<br/>(With acceptance speech by Aiken and essay by [[Evie Shockley]] from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref> the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, and a National Medal for Literature. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1934, Academy of American Poets fellowship in 1957, Huntington Hartford Foundation Award in 1960, and Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in 1967.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riggs |first1=Thomas |title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction |year=1999 |publisher=St. James Press |location=Michigan |isbn=1-55862-222-5 |page=8 |edition=2nd}}</ref> Aiken was the first Georgia-born author to win a Pulitzer Prize, and was named Georgia's Poet Laureate in 1973.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? |last=Malone |first=Tyler |date=April 13, 2017 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-conrad-aiken-20170413-story.html |access-date=June 27, 2019}}</ref> He was the first winner of the [[Poetry Society of America]]'s [[Shelley Memorial Award]], in 1929. In [[1973 Nobel Prize in Literature|1973]], he was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] but died months earlier before his only chance to be awarded.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=16751|title=Nomination Archive - Conrad Potter Aiken|website=NobelPrize.org|date=March 2024|access-date=March 14, 2024}}</ref>

In 2009, [[the Library of America]] selected Aiken's 1931 story "Mr. Arcularis" for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American fantastic tales.