Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort ascending Year
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
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
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Noyes, Alfred Doctor of Letters 1913
Torrey, Charles Cutler Doctor of Letters 1934
Moore, George Foot Doctor of Letters 1915
Caro, Robert Allan Doctor of Letters 2023
Grinnell, George Bird Doctor of Letters 1921
Lewis, Sinclair Doctor of Letters 1936
Marquand, John Phillips Doctor of Letters 1950
Didion, Joan Doctor of Letters 2011
Fagles, Robert Doctor of Letters 2002
Vogel, Paula Doctor of Letters 2020
Cooke, Alfred Alistair Doctor of Letters 1993
Albright, William Foxwell Doctor of Letters 1951
Thayer, William Roscoe Doctor of Letters 1915
Sherwood, Robert Emmet Doctor of Letters 1941
Heaney, Seamus Justin Doctor of Letters 1999
de Romilly, Jacqueline Doctor of Letters 1993
Brodsky, Joseph Doctor of Letters 1978
Freeman, Douglas Southall Doctor of Letters 1946
Stoll, Elmer Edgar Doctor of Letters 1941
Marshall, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1921