Robert Olen Butler, professor of Creative Writing, has been awarded the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He is the 17th recipient of this award, following William Styron, Alice  McDermott, John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Ernest J. Gaines, John Updike, Edward Albee, Grace Paley, Pat Conroy, Jane Smiley, William Kennedy, Elmore "Dutch" Leonard,  Julia Alvarez, and Maxine Hong Kingston.  The award will be announced May 7 at the preview of the new movie on The Great Gatsby.