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.

Derek Bok donated his car for a good cause.

The play Spare Parts is a contemporary fable about the quest to live forever.

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum reunites for a 50th anniversary tour around France.

A survey reveals suprising links between social media use and depression in adults.

Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge

In 2004, a frenzy spread across Harvard Yard in days. Four billion users later, we are only just catching up.

Inseparable cows, big dogs fostering a tiny kitten, and a show beagle’s second act

The president of Harvard Magazine’s Board of Directors will step down in September.

Despite personnel losses, Crimson captain Xaviah Bascon is upbeat about the 2026 season.