Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Cross, Wilbur Lucius Doctor of Letters 1930
Garrison, Fielding Hudson Doctor of Letters 1932
McIlwain, Charles Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
McCabe, William Gordon Doctor of Letters 1897
Bond, Edward Doctor of Letters 1977
Kermode, Frank Doctor of Letters 1995
Brown, Sterling Allen Doctor of Letters 1981
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Tinker, Chauncey Brewster Doctor of Letters 1946
Warren, Robert Penn Doctor of Letters 1960
Frost, Robert Doctor of Letters 1924
Williams, Bernard A.O. Doctor of Letters 2001
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Annette Gordon-Reed Doctor of Letters 2025
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
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
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956