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.
A
Renata Adler – 1987
Sherman Alexie – 2015
Isabel Allende – 2004
Roger Angell – 2015
Kwame Anthony Appiah – 2008
Paul Auster – 2006
B
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
Ron Chernow – 2018
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
Jeffrey Eugenides – 2018
F
Jules Feiffer – 1995
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – 2003
Richard Ford – 1998
Jonathan Franzen – 2012
Ian Frazier - 2019
G
Ernest J. Gaines – 1998
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. – 1999
Mary Gordon – 2007
Jorie Graham – 2009
Stephen Greenblatt – 2008
John Guare – 1989
Allan Gurganus – 2007
H
Robert Hass – 2002
Amy Hempel – 2017
Edward Hirsch – 2017
Edward Hoagland – 1982
Maxine Hong Kingstone – 2018
Richard Howard – 1983
I
John Irving – 2001
J
Ha Jin – 2014
Diane Johnson – 1999
Ward Just – 2013
Edward P. Jones -2019
K
Garrison Keillor – 2001
William Kennedy – 1993
Jamaica Kincaid – 2004
Yusef Komunyakaa – 2009
Jane Kramer – 2016
Tony Kushner – 2005
L
Jhumpa Lahiri – 2012
Alison Lurie – 1989
M
Janet Malcolm – 2001
David Mamet – 1994
Colum McCann – 2017
David McCullough – 2006
Thomas McGuane – 2010
Terrence McNally – 2018
John McPhee – 1988
Lorrie Moore – 2006
Toni Morrison – 1981
Paul Muldoon – 2008
N
Lynn Nottage – 2018
O
Joyce Carol Oates – 1978
Sharon Olds – 2015
Cynthia Ozick – 1988
P
Suzan-Lori Parks - 2019
Ann Patchett – 2017
Jayne Anne Philips – 2018
Robert Pinsky – 1999
Richard Powers – 2010
Richard Price – 2009
Francine Prose – 2010
Annie Proulx – 2007
R
Claudia Rankine - 2019
David Remnick – 2016
Marilynne Robinson – 2010
Kay Ryan – 2017
S
George Saunders – 2018
Stacy Schiff - 2019
Grace Schulman - 2019
David Sedaris - 2019
Grace Schulman - 2019
Wallace Shawn – 2006
Charles Simic – 1995
Jane Smiley – 2001
Gary Snyder – 1987
Elizabeth Spencer – 1985
Art Spiegelman – 2015
T
Paul Theroux – 1984
Natasha Trethewey - 2019
Calvin Trillin – 2008
Anne Tyler – 1983
V
Helen Hennessy Vendler – 1993
W
Rosanna Warren – 2005
Edmund White – 1996
John Edgar Wideman – 2016
Joy Williams – 2008
Terry Tempest Williams - 2019
Garry Wills – 1995
Tobias Wolff – 2014
Charles Wright – 1995
Deceased members
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
List of members of the Department of Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters