The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes are an American literary award which offers unrestricted grants in four categories, namely fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.
[1][2][3] Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the award recognizes English language writers from across the world.
The mission of the award is to call attention to literary achievement and provide writers the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
[1] The award is endowed from the combined estates of writer Donald Windham and actor Sandy Campbell.
The inaugural winners were announced on March 4, 2013, and a ceremony conferring the awards took place at Yale on September 10, 2013 with the nine recipients receiving a citation, award and an unrestricted grant of $150,000 each.