| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 1992 | The Man with Night Sweats | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | $25,000 | Robert Pinsky |
| Carol Muske-Dukes | ||||
| James Tate |
On August 29, 1929, Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, the older son of two journalists. Before enrolling in Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1950, he spent two years in the national service and six months in Paris.