| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1955 | Exiles and Marriages | Viking Press | $5,000 | Louise Bogan |
| John Holmes | ||||
| Rolfe Humphries | ||||
| Randall Jarrell | ||||
| May Sarton |
Donald Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut, on September 20, 1928. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. He earned a BA from Harvard University in Boston in 1951 and a bachelor of letters degree from the University of Oxford in England 1953.