| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1993 | Travels | Alfred A. Knopf | $25,000 | Gerald Stern |
| Deborah Digges | ||||
| Stephen Dunn |
William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. He attended Princeton University on a scholarship. After graduating in 1948, he spent an additional year at Princeton studying Romance language.