The Western Writers Hall of Fame is housed at the McCracken Research Library (MRL) at the Center for the American West in Cody, Wyoming. Nominations for the Western Writers Hall of Fame may come from any WWA member.
| INDUCTEES | |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Irene Bennett Brown |
| 2021 | W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear |
| 2021 | Ivan Doig |
| 2020 | Johnny D. Boggs |
| 2020 | Conrad Richter |
| 2019 | Will Bagley |
| 2019 | Johnny Cash |
| 2018 | Rudolfo Anaya |
| 2018 | Paul Horgan |
| 2017 | Louise Erdrich |
| 2017 | Norman Maclean |
| 2016 | Lucia St. Clair Robson |
| 2016 | John G. Neihardt |
| 2015 | Edward Abbey |
| 2015 | Judy Alter |
| 2015 | S. Omar Barker |
| 2015 | Win Blevins |
| 2015 | Matt Braun |
| 2015 | Dee Brown |
| 2015 | Benjamin Capps |
| 2015 | Jose Cisneros |
| 2015 | Don Coldsmith |
| 2015 | Robert J. Conley |
| 2015 | James A. Crutchfield |
| 2015 | David Dary |
| 2015 | Clint Eastwood |
| 2015 | Loren D. Estleman |
| 2015 | Max Evans |
| 2015 | Andrew J. Fenady |
| 2015 | John Ford |
| 2015 | Fred Grove |
| 2015 | Bill Gulick |
| 2015 | W. Foster Harris |
| 2015 | Tony Hillerman |
| 2015 | John Jakes |
| 2015 | Douglas C. Jones |
| 2015 | Alvin M. Josephy Jr. |
| 2015 | Elmer Kelton |
| 2015 | David Lavender |
| 2015 | Tom Lea |
| 2015 | Elmore Leonard |
| 2015 | Leon C. Metz |
| 2015 | N. Scott Momaday |
| 2015 | Nelson Nye |
| 2015 | Lewis B. Patten |
| 2015 | Jory Sherman |
| 2015 | Gordon Shirreffs |
| 2015 | Robert M. Utley |
| 2015 | Glenn Vernam |
| 2015 | Dale L. Walker |
| 2015 | John Wayne |
| 2015 | Richard S. Wheeler |
| 2015 | Jeanne Williams |
| 2015 | Norman Zollinger |
| 2014 | Angie Debo |
| 2013 | Terry C. Johnston |
| 2012 | Edna Ferber |
| 2011 | Wayne D. Overholser |
| 2010 | Harold McCracken |
| 2009 | Frederick Schiller Faust (Max Brand) |
| 2008 | Glendon Swarthout |
| 2007 | Frederick Jackson Turner |
| 2006 | Frank Waters |
| 2005 | Jack Shaefer Will Henry |
| 2004 | Leland Sonnichsen Walter Prescott Webb |
Andy Adams
Ramon F. Adams
Mary Austin
Eve Ball
B. M. Bower
Walter Campbell (Stanley Vestal)
Willa Cather
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
James Fenimore Cooper
Peggy Simson Curry
H. L. Davis
Bernard DeVoto
J. Frank Dobie
Vardis Fisher
Mary Hallock Foote
Frederick Glidden (Luke Short)
Zane Grey
A.B. Guthrie
Ernest Haycox
Washington Irving
Helen Hunt Jackson
Will James
Dorothy M. Johnson
Louis L’Amour
Jack London
Francis Parkman
William MacLeod Raine
Eugene Manlove Rhoades
Mari Sandoz
James Willard Schultz
Ernest Thompson Seton
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Thomas Thompson
Stanley Vestal
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Owen Wister
Donald C. Worcester
Nellie Snyder Yost