Endowed in 1982 by Robert S. Strauss ’73 in memory of his father, this prize is awarded to recognize accomplished humorous writing.
Strauss Prize Winners
- 2023: Not Awarded
- 2022: Phoebe Ward
- 2021: Octavia Washington
- 2020: Kapani Kirkland
- 2019: Octavia Washington
- 2018: Peter de Hueck
- 2017: Not Awarded
- 2016: Noah Bunnell
- 2015: Brady Fitzsimmons Soglin
- 2014: Griffin John Reister Johnson
- 2013: Not Awarded
- 2012: Griffin J. Johnson
- 2009: Rebekah Anne Frumkin
- 2008: Gregory John Hunter
- 2006: Lindsey Mullen Stoddard
- 2005: Martin William Miller
- 2003: Nicholas Corroon Rattner and Nicholas Vreeland
- 2002: Eli Matthew Barach
- 2001: Eli Matthew Barach
- 2000: Erin Ann Brown
- 1998: Beth Margaret Lavin
- 1997: Beth Margaret Lavin
- 1996: Catharine J. Platt
- 1994: David Michael Tortorello
- 1993: Timujin David Munson
- 1991: Robert Kruger Brown
- 1990: Kathy A. Richards
- 1989: Brian David Sostek
- 1985: Daniel B. Garcia and Eric Christian Tretbar
- 1984: Jeffrey Thomas Carpenter
- 1983: Neal David Rutstein