Honorary Degrees Since 1702

Name Degreesort descending Year
Kermode, Frank Doctor of Letters 1995
Merriam, Charles Edward Doctor of Letters 1951
Robinson, Marilynne Doctor of Letters 2018
Soyinka, Wole Doctor of Letters 1980
Murakami, Haruki Doctor of Letters 2016
Chapman, John Jay Doctor of Letters 1916
Wolfe, Thomas Doctor of Letters 2004
Morey, Charles Rufus Doctor of Letters 1951
Welty, Eudora Doctor of Letters 1975
Hersey, John Doctor of Letters 1984
Notestein, Wallace Doctor of Letters 1951
Benet, Stephen Vincent Doctor of Letters 1937
Hamilton, Edith Doctor of Letters 1959
Adichie, Chimamanda Doctor of Letters 2019
Kittredge, George Lyman Doctor of Letters 1924
Bellow, Saul Doctor of Letters 1972
Shils, Edward Doctor of Letters 1992
Fuess, Claude Moore Doctor of Letters 1934
Robinson, Edwin Arlington Doctor of Letters 1922
Horgan, Paul Doctor of Letters 1977
Sturtevant, Edgar Howard Doctor of Letters 1951
Masefield, John Doctor of Letters 1918
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
Fitzgerald, Robert Stuart Doctor of Letters 1979
Sendak, Maurice Doctor of Letters 1997
McPhee, John Doctor of Letters 2009
Cather, Willa Doctor of Letters 1929
Silone, Ignazio Doctor of Letters 1966
Stoppard, Tom Doctor of Letters 2000
Dove, Rita Doctor of Letters 2014
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
Dexter, Franklin Bowditch Doctor of Letters 1902
Kingsley, William Lathrop Doctor of Letters 1892
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn Doctor of Letters 1956
Gordimer, Nadine Doctor of Letters 1986
Wiesel, Elie Doctor of Letters 1981
Root, Robert Kilburn Doctor of Letters 1937
Ashbery, John Doctor of Letters 2008
Vendler, Helen Doctor of Letters 2000
Wilbur, Richard Doctor of Letters 2012
Neilson, William Allan Doctor of Letters 1927
Vargas Llosa, Mario Doctor of Letters 1994
Wilder, Thornton Niven Doctor of Letters 1947
Johnson, Charles Frederick Doctor of Letters 1898