Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Five Questions with Nancy Gibbs and Thomas E. Patterson
The Washington Post laid off more than a third of its journalists. Does this signal a new era for newsrooms?
Children's-book author Nancy Churnin is profiled
Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.
by Sanya Sagar
Newport’s winter activities
Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter
Chan Zuckerberg grant for Harvard public service
A grant for Phillips Brooks House
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57, donates his collection to the Harvard Art Museums.
The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.
E.E. Cummings and Samuel Beck—a Harvard undergraduate recollection
What one undergraduate learned
Brief life of Guy Davenport, a polymathic stylist
Brief life of a polymathic stylist: 1927-2005
The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
Excerpt from “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür