Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster Doctor of Letters 1946
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898