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.

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.

Graduates John Lithgow, Bill Rauch, and Bess Wohl took home prizes on Sunday night.

Photographer and writer Morgan Smith chronicles life beyond the violence in Ciudad Juárez and other Mexican towns.

The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.

The underlying arguments project clashing worldviews of race and appropriate remedies.

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

Singer Elisa Smith’s whiskey-soaked voice and subversive feminism is part of the genre’s urban shift.

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

Harvard graduate and NASCAR racer Patrick Staropoli on pedals, attention, and fearlessness.