Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster Doctor of Letters 1946
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947