- 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 November 2006)
A
* Daniel Aaron — 1997
*M.H. Abrams — 2001
*Renata Adler — 1987
*Edward Albee — 1966
*Isabel Allende — 2004
*John Ashbery — 1980
*Louis Auchincloss — 1965
*Paul Auster — 2006
*Craig Arnold — 2006B
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Russell Baker — 1984
*Russell Banks — 1998
*Amiri Baraka — 2001
*John Barth — 1974
*Jacques Barzun — 1952
*Ann Beattie — 1992
*Eric Bentley — 1990
*Frank Bidart — 2006
*Harold Bloom — 1990
*Robert Bly — 1987
*Robert Brustein — 1999
*Art Buchwald — 1986C
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Hortense Calisher — 1977
*Evan S. Connell — 1988
*Robert Coover — 1987D
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Don DeLillo — 1989
*Joan Didion — 1981
*Annie Dillard — 1999
*E. L. Doctorow — 1984E
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Louise Erdrich — 1998F
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Robert Fagles — 1998
*Jules Feiffer — 1995
*Lawrence Ferlinghetti — 2003
*Horton Foote — 1998
*Richard Ford — 1998
*Paula Fox — 2004G
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Ernest J. Gaines 1998
*William H. Gass 1983
*Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1999
*Peter Gay 1989
*Louise Gluck 1996
*Francine du Plessix Gray 1992
*John Guare 1989
*A. R. Gurney 2006H-J
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Donald Hall 1989
*Robert Hass 2002
*Shirley Hazzard 1982
*Edward Hoagland 1982
*John Hollander 1979
*Richard Howard 1983
*Ada Louise Huxtable 1977I
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John Irving 2001J
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Diane Johnson 1999K
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Justin Kaplan 1985
*Donald Keene 1986
*Garrison Keillor 2001
*William Kennedy 1993
*Jamaica Kincaid 2004
*Galway Kinnell 1980
*Tony Kushner 2005L
* Philip Levine 1997
*Romulus Linney 2002
*Alison Lurie 1989M
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Janet Malcolm 2001
*David Mamet 1994
*Peter Matthiessen 1974
*J. D. McClatchy 1999
*David McCullough 2006
*John McPhee 1988
*William Meredith 1968
*W. S. Merwin 1972
*Lorrie Moore 2006
*Toni Morrison 1981
* Albert Murray 1997O
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Joyce Carol Oates 1978
*Cynthia Ozick 1988P
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Robert Pinsky 1999
*Richard Poirier 1999
*Reynolds Price 1988R
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Philip Roth 1970
*John Russell 1996*
Oliver Sacks 1996
*James Salter 2000
*Wallace Shawn 2006
*Sam Shepard 1986
*Charles Simic 1995
*Jane Smiley 2001
*William Jay Smith 1975
*W. D. Snodgrass 1972
*Gary Snyder 1987
* Elizabeth Spencer 1985
*Robert Stone 1994
*Mark Strand 1981T
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James Tate 2004
*Studs Terkel 1997
*Paul Theroux 1984
*Anne Tyler 1983U
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John Updike 1964V
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Helen Hennessy Vendler 1993
*Gore Vidal 1999W
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Rosanna Warren 2005
*William Weaver 1992
*Edmund White 1996
*Elie Wiesel 1996
*Richard Wilbur 1957
*C. K. Williams 2003
*Garry Wills 1995
*Lanford Wilson 2004
*Tom Wolfe 1999
* Charles Wright 1995ee also
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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
* [http://www.artsandletters.org/index.php?page=membership&called_dept=L] List of members of the Department of Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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