Alumni | May 18, 2012

American Academy of Arts and Letters awards to Harvard alumni

Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters

Pete Seeger ’40, the folk singer, recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts; read an excerpt from New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson’s recent book-length portrait.
Poet Frederick Seidel ’57, and Adam Hochschild ’63, author of several books, including King Leopold’s Ghost (about the Belgian colonization of the Congo, a National Book Critics Circle award finalist)—both recipients of Arts and Letters Awards in Literature; read a review of Seidel’s recent collected poems by Adam Kirsch ’97.
Roger Angell ’42, the New Yorker’s long-time fiction editor, baseball correspondent, and light-verse master (notably the year-end, full-page “Greetings, Friends!” poems), recipient of the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse; read an excerpt from Angell’s memoir.

The popular Harvard English professor published Under Water this spring.

Author and Harvard Divinity School writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams finds beauty in the world around us.

Shakespeare scholar Caroline Bicks studies horror and fear in literature.

All That’s Unseen charts the Harvard graduate’s uneasy journey from Appalachia to Cambridge and back.

The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.

The two birds will be on display at Harvard this summer.

The Harvard Arts Medalist wants his smash-hit Cats revival to reach “as many young queer people” as possible.

With a grade inflation vote and in the courts, the University argued that it’s taking steps to change.

Science and art capture the microscopic natural world.