Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
The former economics concentrator brings his talent for crunching numbers to netminding.
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
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Harvard professor Stephanie Burt on becoming co-poetry editor at “The Nation”
Stephanie Burt ’94 is the kind of poetry critic who provokes anger in other poetry critics.