ORGANIZATION

Founded 1904, merged with the National Institute of Arts and Letters (founded 1898) in 1976 as the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Chinua Achebe	Novelist	16-Nov-1930		Things Fall Apart
Conrad Aiken	Poet	5-Aug-1889	17-Aug-1973	Earth Triumphant
Charles McLean Andrews	Historian	22-Feb-1863	9-Sep-1943	The Colonial Period of American History
W. H. Auden	Poet	21-Feb-1907	29-Sep-1973	The Age of Anxiety
Irving Babbitt	Philosopher	2-Aug-1865	15-Jul-1933	Early leader of Neohumanism
Milton Babbitt	Composer	10-May-1916		Music for Synthesizer
Jacques Barzun	Historian	30-Nov-1907		From Dawn to Decadence
Eric Bentley	Critic	14-Sep-1916		The Life of the Drama
Elizabeth Bishop	Poet	8-Feb-1911	6-Oct-1979	North & South
Marc Blitzstein	Composer	2-Mar-1905	22-Jan-1964	The Cradle Will Rock
Louise Bogan	Poet	11-Aug-1897	4-Feb-1970	The New Yorker poetry critic
Jorge Luis Borges	Author	24-Aug-1899	14-Jun-1986	The Garden of Forking Paths
Gwendolyn Brooks	Poet	7-Jun-1917	3-Dec-2000	Annie Allen
Van Wyck Brooks	Critic	16-Feb-1886	2-May-1963	Finders & Makers
Robert Brustein	Educator	21-Apr-1927		Founder, American Reportory Theatre
Art Buchwald	Columnist	20-Oct-1925	17-Jan-2007	Syndicated columnist and humorist
William S. Burroughs	Author	5-Feb-1914	2-Aug-1997	Naked Lunch
Frederick Busch	Novelist	1-Aug-1941	23-Feb-2006	Don't Tell Anyone
Nicholas Murray Butler	Educator	2-Apr-1862	7-Dec-1947	President of Columbia University
John Cage	Composer	5-Sep-1912	12-Aug-1992	Experimental composer
Hortense Calisher	Novelist	20-Dec-1911		In the Absence of Angels
Henry Steele Commager	Historian	25-Oct-1902	2-Mar-1998	The American Mind
Luigi Dallapiccola	Composer	3-Feb-1904	19-Feb-1975	Canti di Prigionia
Anita Desai	Novelist	24-Jun-1937		Cry, the Peacock
Joan Didion	Author	5-Dec-1934		Slouching Toward Bethlehem
E. L. Doctorow	Author	6-Jan-1931		The Book of Daniel
Henry van Dyke	Author	10-Nov-1852	10-Apr-1933	The Unknown Quantity
Umberto Eco	Author	5-Jan-1932		Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Rose
Robert Fagles	Translator	11-Sep-1933	26-Mar-2008	Translator of Greek literature
Brian Friel	Playwright	9-Jan-1929		Dancing at Lughnasa
John Kenneth Galbraith	Economist	15-Oct-1908	29-Apr-2006	Modern economics renegade
Peter Galbraith	Diplomat	31-Dec-1950		The End of Iraq
William H. Gass	Novelist	30-Jul-1924		The Tunnel
Allen Ginsberg	Poet	3-Jun-1926	5-Apr-1997	Howl!
Ellen Glasgow	Novelist	22-Apr-1873	21-Nov-1945	In This Our Life
John Guare	Playwright	5-Feb-1938		Six Degrees of Separation
John Hay	Government	8-Oct-1838	1-Jul-1905	US Secretary of State, 1898-1905
Shirley Hazzard	Novelist	30-Jan-1931		The Transit of Venus
Richard Hughes	Author	19-Apr-1900	28-Aug-1976	A High Wind in Jamaica
Louis Kahn	Architect	20-Feb-1901	17-Mar-1974	Prominent architect
Kenneth Koch	Poet	27-Feb-1925	6-Jul-2002	On the Great Atlantic Rainway
Arthur Kopit	Playwright	10-May-1937		Mama's Hung You in the Closet
Joseph Wood Krutch	Naturalist	25-Nov-1893	22-May-1970	The Modern Temper
Stanley Kunitz	Poet	29-Jul-1905	14-May-2006	US Poet Laureate, 2000
Maya Lin	Architect	5-Oct-1959		Designed Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Walter Lippmann	Journalist	23-Sep-1889	14-Dec-1974	Today and Tomorrow
Janet Malcolm	Journalist	1934		The Journalist and the Murderer
Albert L. Murray	Author	12-May-1916		Stomping the Blues
Michael Ondaatje	Novelist	12-Sep-1943		The English Patient
Renzo Piano	Architect	14-Sep-1937		Designed the Pompidou Center rehab
Reynolds Price	Author	1-Feb-1933		A Long and Happy Life
John Crowe Ransom	Poet	30-Apr-1888	4-Jul-1974	God Without Thunder
Steve Reich	Composer	3-Oct-1936		Minimalist composer, Different Trains
Adrienne Rich	Poet	16-May-1929		An Atlas of the Difficult World
Oliver Sacks	Doctor	9-Jul-1933		Awakenings
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.	Historian	15-Oct-1917	28-Feb-2007	The Age of Roosevelt
Sam Shepard	Playwright	5-Nov-1943		Pulitzer for Buried Child
Georges Simenon	Novelist	13-Feb-1903	4-Sep-1989	Prolific Belgian-French novelist
Charles Simic	Poet	9-May-1938		The World Doesn't End
Jane Smiley	Novelist	26-Sep-1949		A Thousand Acres
Muriel Spark	Novelist	1-Feb-1918	13-Apr-2006	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Studs Terkel	Author	16-May-1912		Wrote working class book Working
Wayne Thiebaud	Artist	1920		California pop artist
Helen Vendler	Critic	30-Apr-1933		American poetry critic
William Weaver	Translator	24-Jul-1923		Translator from the Italian
Eudora Welty	Author	13-Apr-1909	23-Jul-2001	The Optimist's Daughter
Edmund White	Author	13-Jan-1940		The Joy of Gay Sex
Robert Wilson	Theater Director	4-Oct-1941		Experimental theater director, designer
Charles Wuorinen	Composer	9-Jun-1938		Time's Encomium

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