Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Williams, Bernard A.O. Doctor of Letters 2001
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925