List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature
This List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature shows the members of one of the three departments of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
After being nominated by current members, new members are selected in two elections, the first by the department they join (Art, Literature or Music). Candidates who receive the most votes in their own department are then voted on by the entire membership.
(List as of February 2015)
A
- Daniel Aaron – 1997
- M. H. Abrams – 2001
- Renata Adler – 1987
- Edward Albee – 1966
- Isabel Allende – 2004
- Kwame Anthony Appiah - 2008
- John Ashbery – 1980
- Paul Auster – 2006
B
- Russell Baker – 1984
- Russell Banks – 1998
- John Barth – 1974
- Ann Beattie – 1992
- Louis Begley – 2011
- Eric Bentley – 1990
- Wendell Berry – 2014
- Frank Bidart – 2006
- Harold Bloom – 1990
- Robert Bly – 1987
- T. Coraghessan Boyle – 2009
- Robert Brustein – 1999
C
D
E
F
- Jules Feiffer – 1995
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti – 2003
- Richard Ford – 1998
- Paula Fox – 2004
- Jonathan Franzen – 2012
G
- Ernest J. Gaines – 1998
- William H. Gass – 1983
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – 1999
- Peter Gay – 1989
- Louise Glück – 1996
- Mary Gordon – 2007
- Jorie Graham – 2009
- Francine du Plessix Gray – 1992
- Stephen Greenblatt – 2008
- John Guare – 1989
- Allan Gurganus – 2007
- A. R. Gurney – 2006
H
- Donald Hall – 1989
- Jim Harrison – 2007
- Robert Hass – 2002
- Shirley Hazzard – 1982
- Edward Hoagland – 1982
- Richard Howard – 1983
I
J
- Ha Jin – 2014
- Denis Johnson – 2014
- Diane Johnson – 1999
- Ward Just – 2013
K
- Donald Keene – 1986
- Garrison Keillor – 2001
- William Kennedy – 1993
- Jamaica Kincaid – 2004
- Yusef Komunyakaa – 2009
- Tony Kushner – 2005
L
- Jhumpa Lahiri – 2012
- Harper Lee – 2007
- Alison Lurie – 1989
M
- Janet Malcolm – 2001
- David Mamet – 1994
- J. D. McClatchy – 1999
- David McCullough – 2006
- Thomas McGuane – 2010
- John McPhee – 1988
- W. S. Merwin – 1972
- Lorrie Moore – 2006
- Toni Morrison – 1981
- Paul Muldoon – 2008
O
- Joyce Carol Oates – 1978
- Cynthia Ozick – 1988
P
- Robert Pinsky – 1999
- Richard Powers – 2010
- Reynolds Price – 1988
- Francine Prose – 2010
- Annie Proulx – 2007
R
- Marilynne Robinson – 2010
- Philip Roth – 1970
S
- Oliver Sacks – 1996
- James Salter – 2000
- Wallace Shawn – 2006
- Sam Shepard – 1986
- Charles Simic – 1995
- Jane Smiley – 2001
- William Jay Smith – 1975
- Gary Snyder – 1987
- Elizabeth Spencer – 1985
T
- James Tate – 2004
- Paul Theroux – 1984
- Calvin Trillin – 2008
- Anne Tyler – 1983
V
- Helen Hennessy Vendler – 1993
W
- Rosanna Warren – 2005
- Edmund White – 1996
- Elie Wiesel – 1996
- Richard Wilbur – 1957
- C. K. Williams – 2003
- Joy Williams – 2008
- Garry Wills – 1995
- Tom Wolfe – 1999
- Tobias Wolff – 2014
- Charles Wright – 1995
Deceased members
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There are hundreds of deceased members. As of April 2014, this list includes only a few members whose surname begins after "Bi".
| Name | Life | Elected |
|---|---|---|
| Brooks Adams | 1848–1927 | 1906 |
| Charles Francis Adams | 1835–1915 | 1905 |
| Franklin P. Adams | 1881–1960 | 1946 |
| Henry Adams | 1838–1918 | 1898 |
| James Truslow Adams | 1878–1949 | 1923 |
| Léonie Adams | 1899–1988 | 1951 |
| George Ade | 1866–1944 | 1908 |
| Conrad Aiken | 1889–1973 | 1941 |
| Henry Mills Alden | 1836–1919 | 1898 |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman | 1861–1931 | 1925 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | 1836–1907 | 1898 |
| Richard Aldrich | 1863–1937 | 1908 |
| Nelson Algren | 1909–1981 | 1981 |
| Hervey Allen | 1889–1949 | 1936 |
| James Lane Allen | 1848–1925 | 1898 |
| Winthrop Ames | 1871–1937 | 1931 |
| A. R. Ammons | 1926–2001 | 1990 |
| Maxwell Anderson | 1888–1959 | 1935 |
| Sherwood Anderson | 1876–1941 | 1937 |
| Charles M. Andrews | 1863–1943 | 1937 |
| Hannah Arendt | 1906–1975 | 1964 |
| Newton Arvin | 1900–1963 | 1952 |
| Gertrude Atherton | 1857–1948 | 1938 |
| Louis Auchincloss | 1917–2010 | 1965 |
| Wystan Hugh Auden | 1907–1973 | 1948 |
| Irving Babbitt | 1865–1933 | 1920 |
| Irving Bacheller | 1859–1950 | 1920 |
| Leonard Bacon | 1887–1954 | 1941 |
| George Pierce Baker | 1866–1935 | 1916 |
| Ray Stannard Baker | 1870–1946 | 1920 |
| James Baldwin | 1924–1987 | 1964 |
| Simeon E. Baldwin | 1840–1927 | 1898 |
| Amiri Baraka | 1934–2014 | 2001 |
| Djuna Barnes | 1892–1982 | 1959 |
| Philip Barry | 1896–1949 | 1930 |
| Donald Barthelme | 1931–1989 | 1978 |
| Jacques Barzun | 1907–2012 | 1952 |
| John Spencer Bassett | 1867–1928 | 1923 |
| Hamilton Basso | 1904–1964 | 1955 |
| Arlo Bates | 1850–1918 | 1905 |
| Charles Austin Beard | 1874–1948 | 1939 |
| Carl L. Becker | 1873–1945 | 1933 |
| William Beebe | 1887–1962 | 1939 |
| Samuel N. Behrman | 1893–1973 | 1943 |
| Saul Bellow | 1915–2005 | 1958 |
| Stephen Vincent Benét | 1898–1943 | 1929 |
| William Rose Benét | 1886–1950 | 1933 |
| Bernard Berenson | 1865–1959 | 1922 |
| John Berryman | 1914–1972 | 1965 |
| Albert J. Beveridge | 1862–1927 | 1920 |
| John Bigelow | 1817–1911 | 1898 |
| William Henry Bishop | 1847–1928 | 1918 |
| Morris Bishop | 1893–1973 | 1973 |
| James Bucklin Bishop | 1847–1928 | 1923 |
| Elizabeth Bishop | 1911–1979 | 1954 |
| R. P. Blackmur | 1904–1965 | 1956 |
| Louise Bogan | 1897–1970 | 1952 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen | 1897–1973 | 1963 |
| Claude Bowers | 1878–1958 | 1937 |
| Paul Bowles | 1910–1999 | 1981 |
| James Boyd | 1888–1944 | 1938 |
| Kay Boyle | 1902–1992 | 1968 |
| Gamaliel Bradford | 1863–1932 | 1915 |
| Roard Bradford | 1896–1948 | 1947 |
| Robert Bridges | 1858–1941 | 1906 |
| John Malcolm Brinnin | 1916–1998 | 1978 |
| Crane Brinton | 1898–1968 | 1955 |
| Joseph Brodsky | 1940–1996 | 1979 |
| Louis Bromfield | 1896–1956 | 1928 |
| Cleanth Brooks | 1906–1994 | 1970 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks | 1917–2000 | 1976 |
| Van Wyck Brooks | 1886–1963 | 1925 |
| John Mason Brown | 1900–1969 | 1950 |
| William Crary Brownell | 1851–1928 | 1898 |
| Pearl S. Buck | 1892–1973 | 1936 |
| Kenneth Burke | 1897–1993 | 1951 |
| William S. Burroughs | 1914–1997 | 1983 |
| John Burroughs | 1837–1921 | 1898 |
| Maxwell Struthers Burt | 1882–1954 | 1926 |
| Richard Burton | 1861–1940 | 1908 |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | 1862–1947 | 1909 |
| Witter Bynner | 1881–1968 | 1962 |
| James Branch Cabell | 1879–1958 | 1937 |
| George Washington Cable | 1844–1925 | 1898 |
| Erskine Caldwell | 1903–1987 | 1942 |
| Hortense Calisher | 1911–2009 | 1977 |
| Bernard Malamud | 1914-1986 | 1964 |
| Louis Untermeyer | 1885–1977 | 1941 |
| John Updike | 1932–2009 | 1964 |
| Gore Vidal | 1925–2012 | 1999 |
| Kurt Vonnegut | 1922–2007 | 1973 |
| Stark Young | 1881–1963 | 1938 |
| Marguerite Yourcenar | 1903–1987 | 1982 |
See also
- List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Art
- List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Music
External links
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