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List of members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature

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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.

Contents

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

  • Robert A. Caro – 2008
  • Michael Chabon – 2012
  • Robert Coover – 1987
  • Michael Cunningham – 2011

    • D

  • Don DeLillo – 1989
  • Joan Didion – 1981
  • Annie Dillard – 1999
  • E. L. Doctorow – 1984
  • Rita Dove – 2011

    • E

  • Deborah Eisenberg – 2007
  • Louise Erdrich – 1998

    • 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

  • John Irving – 2001

    • 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

    There are hundreds of deceased members. As of April 2014, this list includes only a few members whose surname begins after "Bi".

    References

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