2000 Hall of Fame Inductees
- A.R. Ammons (1926-2001)
- Helen Bevington (1906-2001)
- Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968)
- Burke Davis (1913-2006)
- Robert Ruark (1915-1965)
1998 Hall of Fame Inductees
- John Charles McNeill (1874-1907)
- Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
- Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006)
- John Hope Franklin (1915- )
- Jonathan Williams (1929-2008)
1997 Hall of Fame Inductees
- Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
- Joseph Mitchell (1908-1996)
- Sam Ragan (1915-1996)
- John Ehle (1925- )
- Frances Gray Patton (1906-2000)
- Louis Rubin (1923- )
1996 Hall of Fame Inductees
- James Boyd (1888-1944)
- Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)
- Jonathan Daniels (1902-1981)
- Inglis Fletcher (1879-1969)
- Paul Green (1894-1981)
- Bernice Kelly Harris (1891-1973)
- O. Henry--William Sydney Porter (1862-1910)
- George Moses Horton (circa 1797-1883)
- Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
- Gerald Johnson (1890-1980)
- Guy Owen (1925-1981)
- Thad Stem, Jr. (1916-1980)
- Richard Walser (1908-1988)
- Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)
- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)