Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort ascending Year
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Leger, Alexis Doctor of Letters 1959
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
Hellman, Lillian Doctor of Letters 1974
MacLeish, Archibald Doctor of Letters 1939
Manly, John Matthews Doctor of Letters 1925
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Thurber, James Grover Doctor of Letters 1953
Painter, Nell Irvin Doctor of Letters 2003
White, Elwyn Brooks Doctor of Letters 1948
Merz, Charles Doctor of Letters 1942
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Lynn Nottage Doctor of Letters 2026
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898
Ngugi, wa Thiong’o Doctor of Letters 2017
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Repplier, Agnes Doctor of Letters 1925
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Noyes, Alfred Doctor of Letters 1913
Caro, Robert Allan Doctor of Letters 2023
Torrey, Charles Cutler Doctor of Letters 1934
Moore, George Foot Doctor of Letters 1915
Lewis, Sinclair Doctor of Letters 1936
Marquand, John Phillips Doctor of Letters 1950
Grinnell, George Bird Doctor of Letters 1921
Fagles, Robert Doctor of Letters 2002
Didion, Joan Doctor of Letters 2011