Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Remembering Jack Reardon
He was Harvard’s quintessential people person.
The Mailer-Buckley Connection
The late Norman Mailer ’43, a prolific and pugnacious author, apparently wrote a lot of letters to go with his many published works—some 50,000 letters archived by Michael Lennon, according to The New Yorker...
Fighting the Illegal Logging Trade
Alexander von Bismarck ’94 (’02)—one of the Bismarcks, great-great-grandnephew of Otto von Bismarck—has been working undercover, at no small risk, trying to counter the enormous worldwide trade in illegal logging and timber smuggling...
Tall Tales
Arianne Cohen ’03—a onetime Harvard Magazine Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow— is publishing a second book—The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life on High, which promises "a fascinating and informative look into the world of tall people"...
Albert Bickmore
Brief life of a museum impresario: 1839-1914
Seriously Funny
Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...
"Open to Difference"
Three alumnae rabbis help redefine an ancient calling...
Harvard Proponent
The Harvard Alumni Association’s new president is Walter H. Morris Jr. ’73, M.B.A. ’75...
Partnering with Survivors
Megan Berthold ’84 is director of research and a therapist for the Program for Torture Victims (PTV) in Los Angeles.
Self-Definition
Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.
Man with a Plan
Afam Onyema ’01 has a job that he wakes up “hungry” to pursue, that has become the passion of his life.
by Liz Goodwin