| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1986 | The Happy Man | Random House | $25,000 | Robert Pinsky |
| Ellen Bryant Voigt | ||||
| Douglas Crase |
Donald Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut, on September 20, 1928. 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.