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.

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
 * 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
 * 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