The first 'Golden Apple' Award was given by the society's executive board to M.L. Rosenthal, literary critic and poet who taught at New York University and elsewhere. After he died in 1996, the award was renamed in his honor. Subsequently, recipients voted to call themselves Rosenthal Fellows and to choose awardees. Here are the recipients to date in alphabetical order by last name.

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George Bornstein

Terrence Brown

David R. Clark

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

Jared Curtis

Denis Donoghue

Richard Finneran

Roy Foster

Warwick Gould

George Mills Harper

Meg Harper

John Kelly

Stephen Maxfield Parrish

J.C.C. Mays

William H. O’Donnell

James Pethica

Jahan Ramazani

M.L. Rosenthal

Ann Saddlemyer

Ronald Schuchard

Colin Smythe

Jon Stallworthy

Deirdre Toomey

Helen Vendler

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9 – Jahan Ramazani 2

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