How many Americans won the Nobel prize for literature in the last 40 years?
Nine Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the last 40 years: 
Robert Frost (1960), John A. Williams (1969), Saul Bellow (1976), Eudora Welty (1983), William Golding (1980), Toni Morrison (1993), Kenzaburō Ōe (1994), and Alice Munro (2013).
Seven Americans have won the Nobel prize for literature in the last 40 years - Joseph Brodsky (1987), Toni Morrison (1993), Octavio Paz (1990), Derek Walcott (1992), John Steinbeck (1962), Saul Bellow (1976), and William Faulkner (1949).
Seven Americans have won the Nobel prize for literature in the last 40 years - Joseph Brodsky (1987), Toni Morrison (1993), Octavio Paz (1990), Derek Walcott (1992), John Steinbeck (1962), Saul Bellow (1976), and William Faulkner (1949).
Nine Americans have won the Nobel Prize in Literature in the last 40 years: 
Robert Frost (1960), John A. Williams (1969), Saul Bellow (1976), Eudora Welty (1983), William Golding (1980), Toni Morrison (1993), Kenzaburō Ōe (1994), and Alice Munro (2013).