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.

A new book explores the Harvard-trained architect’s vision and impact, from Ground Zero to the Smithsonian.

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

Plus, veteran higher education leader Thomas Ehrlich reflects on university curricula for his 70th reunion

In 1954, Gregory Corso moved into Eliot House. How he stayed there is a literary legend.

The Harvard graduate’s roundtable talk show touches on hot button issues from religion to sex.

A College student’s attempt to recapture the romanticism of the workplace.

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

The 2026-2027 Ledecky and Summer Undergraduate Fellows

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