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
- Renata Adler – 1987
- Sherman Alexie – 2015
- Isabel Allende – 2004
- Roger Angell – 2015
- 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
- Peter Carey – 2016
- Robert A. Caro – 2008
- Michael Chabon – 2012
- Henri Cole – 2017
- Billy Collins – 2016
- Robert Coover – 1987
- Michael Cunningham – 2011
D
- Don DeLillo – 1989
- Junot Diaz – 2017
- Joan Didion – 1981
- Annie Dillard – 1999
- Rita Dove – 2011
E
- Dave Eggers – 2015
- Deborah Eisenberg – 2007
- Louise Erdrich – 1998
F
- Jules Feiffer – 1995
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti – 2003
- Richard Ford – 1998
- Jonathan Franzen – 2012
G
- Ernest J. Gaines – 1998
- William H. Gass – 1983
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – 1999
- Louise Glück – 1996
- Mary Gordon – 2007
- Jorie Graham – 2009
- Francine du Plessix Gray – 1992
- Stephen Greenblatt – 2008
- John Guare – 1989
- Allan Gurganus – 2007
H
- Donald Hall – 1989
- Robert Hass – 2002
- Amy Hempel – 2017
- Edward Hirsch – 2017
- Edward Hoagland – 1982
- Richard Howard – 1983
I
- John Irving – 2001
J
- Ha Jin – 2014
- Diane Johnson – 1999
- Ward Just – 2013
K
- Donald Keene – 1986
- Garrison Keillor – 2001
- William Kennedy – 1993
- Jamaica Kincaid – 2004
- Yusef Komunyakaa – 2009
- Jane Kramer – 2016
- Tony Kushner – 2005
L
- Jhumpa Lahiri – 2012
- Ursula K. Le Guin – 2017
- Alison Lurie – 1989
M
- Janet Malcolm – 2001
- David Mamet – 1994
- Colum McCann – 2017
- 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
- Sharon Olds – 2015
- Cynthia Ozick – 1988
P
- Ann Patchett – 2017
- Robert Pinsky – 1999
- Richard Powers – 2010
- Richard Price – 2009
- Francine Prose – 2010
- Annie Proulx – 2007
R
- David Remnick – 2016
- Marilynne Robinson – 2010
- Philip Roth – 1970
- Kay Ryan – 2017
S
- Wallace Shawn – 2006
- Charles Simic – 1995
- Jane Smiley – 2001
- Gary Snyder – 1987
- Elizabeth Spencer – 1985
- Art Spiegelman – 2015
T
- Paul Theroux – 1984
- Calvin Trillin – 2008
- Anne Tyler – 1983
V
- Helen Hennessy Vendler – 1993
W
- Rosanna Warren – 2005
- Edmund White – 1996
- John Edgar Wideman – 2016
- Richard Wilbur – 1957
- Joy Williams – 2008
- Garry Wills – 1995
- Tom Wolfe – 1999
- Tobias Wolff – 2014
- Charles Wright – 1995
Deceased members
There are hundreds of deceased members. As of June 2017, this list includes only a few members whose surname begins after "Fu".
!Name | Life | Elected |
---|---|---|
Daniel Aaron | 1912–2016 | 1997 |
M. H. Abrams | 1912–2015 | 2001 |
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 |
Edward Albee | 1928–2016 | 1966 |
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 |
Art Buchwald | 1925–2007 | 1986 |
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 |
Joseph Campbell | 1904–1987 | 1973 |
Henry Seidel Canby | 1878–1961 | 1931 |
Truman Capote | 1924–1984 | 1964 |
Bliss Carman | 1861–1929 | 1898 |
Rachel Carson | 1907–1964 | 1953 |
Raymond Carver | 1938–1988 | 1988 |
R.V. Cassill | 1919–2002 | 1981 |
Willa Cather | 1876–1947 | 1929 |
Bruce Catton | 1899–1978 | 1955 |
Madison J. Cawein | 1865–1914 | 1908 |
French Ensor Chadwick | 1844–1919 | 1912 |
Robert W. Chambers | 1865–1933 | 1909 |
Edward Channing | 1856–1931 | 1911 |
Stuart Chase | 1888–1985 | 1938 |
Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor | 1865–1945 | 1912 |
John Cheever | 1912–1982 | 1957 |
John Vance Cheney | 1848–1922 | 1908 |
Winston Churchill | 1871–1947 | 1908 |
Marchette Chute | 1909–1994 | 1957 |
John Ciardi | 1916–1986 | 1957 |
Amy Clampitt | 1920–1994 | 1987 |
Eleanor Clark | 1914–1996 | 1968 |
Mark Twain | 1835–1910 | 1898 |
Robert M. Coates | 1897–1973 | 1958 |
Robert P. T. Coffin | 1892–1955 | 1946 |
Mary Colum | 1877–1957 | 1953 |
Padraic Colum | 1881–1972 | 1948 |
Henry Steele Commager | 1902–1998 | 1952 |
Evan S. Connell | 1924–2013 | 1988 |
Marc Connelly | 1890–1980 | 1935 |
James Brendan Connolly | 1868–1957 | 1908 |
Moncure D. Conway | 1832–1907 | 1898 |
Royal Cortissoz | 1869–1948 | 1908 |
Malcolm Cowley | 1898–1987 | 1949 |
James Gould Cozzens | 1903–1978 | 1943 |
Francis Marion Crawford | 1854–1909 | 1898 |
Robert Creeley | 1926–2005 | 1987 |
Herbert Croly | 1869–1930 | 1912 |
Wilbur L. Cross | 1862–1948 | 1911 |
Rachel Crothers | 1878–1958 | 1933 |
Samuel McChord Crothers | 1857–1927 | 1906 |
E. E. Cummings | 1894–1962 | 1949 |
Edward Dahlberg | 1900–1977 | 1968 |
Augustin Daly | 1838–1899 | 1898 |
H. L. Davis | 1896–1960 | 1956 |
Owen Davis | 1874–1956 | 1923 |
Charles DeKay | 1848–1935 | 1905 |
Margaret Deland | 1857–1945 | 1926 |
Babette Deutsch | 1895–1982 | 1958 |
Bernard DeVoto | 1897–1955 | 1948 |
Peter DeVries | 1910–1993 | 1969 |
James Dickey | 1923–1997 | 1972 |
E. L. Doctorow | 1931–2015 | 1984 |
Theodore A. Dodge | 1842–1909 | 1908 |
John Dos Passos | 1896–1970 | 1937 |
W. E. Burghardt DuBois | 1868–1963 | 1944 |
Rene Jules Dubos | 1901–1982 | 1979 |
Finley Peter Dunne | 1867–1936 | 1908 |
Will Durant | 1885–1981 | 1959 |
Walter Prichard Eaton | 1878–1957 | 1918 |
Richard Eberhart | 1904–2005 | 1960 |
Leon Edel | 1907–1997 | 1964 |
Irwin Edman | 1896–1954 | 1941 |
Harry Stillwell Edwards | 1855–1938 | 1912 |
Maurice Francis Egan | 1852–1924 | 1908 |
Edward Eggleston | 1837–1902 | 1898 |
Loren Eiseley | 1907–1977 | 1971 |
Stanley Elkin | 1930–1995 | 1982 |
Ralph Ellison | 1914–1995 | 1964 |
Richard Ellmann | 1918–1987 | 1971 |
John Erskine | 1879–1951 | 1920 |
Robert Fagles | 1933–2008 | 1998 |
James T. Farrell | 1904–1979 | 1942 |
William Faulkner | 1897–1962 | 1939 |
Edgar Fawcett | 1847–1904 | 1898 |
Edna Ferber | 1887–1968 | 1930 |
Francis Fergusson | 1904–1986 | 1962 |
Chester B. Fernald | 1869–1938 | 1910 |
Leslie Fiedler | 1917–2003 | 1988 |
Henry T. Finck | 1854–1926 | 1908 |
John Huston Finley | 1863–1940 | 1908 |
Oscar W. Firkins | 1864–1932 | 1912 |
M. F. K. Fisher | 1908–1992 | 1991 |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher | 1879–1958 | 1931 |
Willard Fiske | 1831–1904 | 1898 |
Dudley Fitts | 1903–1969 | 1957 |
Robert Fitzgerald | 1910–1985 | 1962 |
Janet Flanner | 1892–1978 | 1959 |
John Gould Fletcher | 1886–1950 | 1949 |
Jefferson Butler Fletcher | 1865–1946 | 1918 |
James Thomas Flexner | 1908–2003 | 1976 |
Horton Foote | 1916–2009 | 1998 |
Shelby Foote | 1916–2005 | 1994 |
James Forbes | 1871–1938 | 1922 |
Worthington C. Ford | 1858–1940 | 1908 |
Paul Leicester Ford | 1865–1902 | 1898 |
Paula Fox | 1923–2017 | 2004 |
John Jr. Fox | 1863–1919 | 1898 |
Waldo Frank | 1889–1967 | 1952 |
Harold Frederic | 1856–1898 | 1898 |
Douglas Southall Freeman | 1886–1953 | 1937 |
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | 1852–1930 | 1926 |
Robert Frost | 1874–1963 | 1916 |
Henry B. Fuller | 1857–1929 | 1898 |
Horace H. Jr. Furness | 1865–1930 | 1911 |
Horace Howard Furness | 1833–1912 | 1905 |
Bernard Malamud | 1914–1986 | 1964 |
William Keepers Maxwell | 1908–2000 | 1963 |
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 |
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