Academy Members
The Academy’s membership of 300 is divided into departments of Architecture, Art, Literature, and Music. Only Academicians may nominate and elect new members.
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| Name | Department | Year Elected |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Aaron, 1912-2016 | Literature | 1997 |
| Edwin Austin Abbey, 1852-1911 | Art | 1898 |
| M. H. Abrams, 1912-2015 | Literature | 2001 |
| Robert Adams | Art | 2014 |
| John Adams | Music | 1997 |
| Leonie Adams, 1899-1988 | Literature | 1951 |
| Franklin P. Adams, 1881-1960 | Literature | 1946 |
| Wayman Adams, 1883-1959 | Art | 1929 |
| James Truslow Adams, 1878-1949 | Literature | 1923 |
| Brooks Adams, 1848-1927 | Literature | 1906 |
| Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915 | Literature | 1905 |
| Henry Adams, 1838-1918 | Literature | 1898 |
| Herbert Adams, 1858-1945 | Art | 1898 |
| George Ade, 1866-1944 | Literature | 1908 |
| Samuel Adler | Music | 2001 |
| Renata Adler | Literature | 1987 |
| David Adler, 1882-1949 | Architecture | 1946 |
| Conrad Aiken, 1889-1973 | Literature | 1941 |
| Robert Ingersoll Aitken, 1878-1949 | Art | 1915 |
| Edward Albee, 1928-2016 | Literature | 1966 |
| Josef Albers, 1888-1976 | Art | 1968 |
| Ivan Albright, 1897-1983 | Art | 1957 |
| Henry Mills Alden, 1836-1919 | Literature | 1898 |
| Edwin Anderson Alderman, 1861-1931 | Literature | 1925 |
| Chester Aldrich, 1871-1940 | Architecture | 1937 |
| Richard Aldrich, 1863-1937 | Literature | 1908 |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1836-1907 | Literature | 1898 |
| John White Alexander, 1856-1915 | Art | 1898 |
| Sherman Alexie | Literature | 2015 |
| Nelson Algren, 1909-1981 | Literature | 1981 |
| Hervey Allen, 1889-1949 | Literature | 1936 |
| James Lane Allen, 1848-1925 | Literature | 1898 |
| Isabel Allende | Literature | 2004 |
| Hilton Als | Literature | 2021 |
| Edmond Amateis, 1897-1981 | Art | 1952 |
| Winthrop Ames, 1871-1937 | Literature | 1931 |
| A. R. Ammons, 1926-2001 | Literature | 1990 |
| Laurie Anderson | Art | 2020 |
| T. J. Anderson | Music | 2005 |
| Lennart Anderson, 1928-2015 | Art | 1977 |
| Sherwood Anderson, 1876-1941 | Literature | 1937 |
| Maxwell Anderson, 1888-1959 | Literature | 1935 |
| Charles M. Andrews, 1863-1943 | Literature | 1937 |
| Roger Angell | Literature | 2015 |
| Kwame Anthony Appiah | Literature | 2008 |
| Alexander Archipenko, 1887-1964 | Art | 1962 |
| Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975 | Literature | 1964 |
| Dominick Argento, 1927-2019 | Music | 1980 |
| John Taylor Arms, 1887-1953 | Art | 1932 |
| Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013 | Art | 2002 |
| Newton Arvin, 1900-1963 | Literature | 1952 |
| John Ashbery, 1927-2017 | Literature | 1980 |
| Gertrude Atherton, 1857-1948 | Literature | 1938 |
| Louis Auchincloss, 1917-2010 | Literature | 1965 |
| Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907-1973 | Literature | 1948 |
| Paul Auster | Literature | 2006 |
| Louis Ayres, 1874-1947 | Art | 1944 |
| George F. Babb, 1836-1915 | Art | 1907 |
| Milton Babbitt, 1916-2011 | Music | 1965 |
| Irving Babbitt, 1865-1933 | Literature | 1920 |
| Irving Bacheller, 1859-1950 | Literature | 1920 |
| Peggy Bacon, 1895-1987 | Art | 1956 |
| Leonard Bacon, 1887-1954 | Literature | 1941 |
| Henry Bacon, 1866-1924 | Architecture | 1913 |
| William Bailey, 1930-2020 | Art | 1986 |
| Russell Baker, 1925-2019 | Literature | 1984 |
| Ray Stannard Baker, 1870-1946 | Literature | 1920 |
| George Pierce Baker, 1866-1935 | Literature | 1916 |
| John Baldessari, 1931-2020 | Art | 2008 |
| James Baldwin, 1924-1987 | Literature | 1964 |
| Simeon E. Baldwin, 1840-1927 | Literature | 1898 |
| Hugo Ballin, 1879-1956 | Art | 1908 |
| Russell Banks | Literature | 1998 |
| Amiri Baraka, 1934-2014 | Literature | 2001 |
| Samuel Barber, 1910-1981 | Music | 1941 |
| George Gray Barnard, 1863-1938 | Art | 1908 |
| Edward Larrabee Barnes, 1915-2004 | Architecture | 1991 |
| Djuna Barnes, 1892-1982 | Literature | 1959 |
| Will Barnet, 1911-2012 | Art | 1982 |
| Philip Barry, 1896-1949 | Literature | 1930 |
| John Barth | Literature | 1974 |
| Donald Barthelme, 1931-1989 | Literature | 1978 |
| Jennifer Bartlett | Art | 2003 |
| Frederic Clay Bartlett, 1873-1953 | Art | 1916 |
| Paul Wayland Bartlett, 1865-1925 | Art | 1908 |
| Jacques Barzun, 1907-2012 | Literature | 1952 |
| Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000 | Art | 1963 |
| Leslie Bassett, 1923-2016 | Music | 1981 |
| John Spencer Bassett, 1867-1928 | Literature | 1923 |
| Hamilton Basso, 1904-1964 | Literature | 1955 |
| Arlo Bates, 1850-1918 | Literature | 1905 |
| Chester Beach, 1881-1956 | Art | 1918 |
| Gifford Beal, 1879-1956 | Art | 1923 |
| Charles Austin Beard, 1874-1948 | Literature | 1939 |
| Romare H. Bearden, 1912-1988 | Art | 1972 |
| Robert Beaser | Music | 2004 |
| Ann Beattie | Literature | 1992 |
| Cecilia Beaux, 1855-1942 | Art | 1930 |
| Carl Becker, 1873-1945 | Literature | 1933 |
| J. Carroll Beckwith, 1852-1917 | Art | 1898 |
| William Beebe, 1887-1962 | Literature | 1939 |
| Jack Beeson, 1921-2010 | Music | 1976 |
| Louis Begley | Literature | 2011 |
| Samuel N. Behrman, 1893-1973 | Literature | 1943 |
| Saul Bellow, 1915-2005 | Literature | 1958 |
| George Wesley Bellows, 1882-1925 | Art | 1918 |
| Pietro Belluschi, 1899-1994 | Architecture | 1955 |
| William Rose Benet, 1886-1950 | Literature | 1933 |
| Stephen Vincent Benet, 1898-1943 | Literature | 1929 |
| Lynda Benglis | Art | 2012 |
| Frank W. Benson, 1862-1951 | Art | 1911 |
| Eric Bentley, 1916-2020 | Literature | 1990 |
| Thomas Hart Benton, 1889-1975 | Art | 1942 |
| Bernard Berenson, 1865-1959 | Literature | 1922 |
| Arthur Berger, 1912-2003 | Music | 1972 |
| William Bergsma, 1921-1994 | Music | 1967 |
| Leonid Berman, 1896-1976 | Art | 1976 |
| Eugene Berman, 1899-1972 | Art | 1964 |
| Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990 | Music | 1961 |
| Wendell Berry | Literature | 2014 |
| John Berryman, 1914-1972 | Literature | 1965 |
| Louis Betts, 1873-1961 | Art | 1912 |
| Albert J. Beveridge, 1862-1927 | Literature | 1920 |
| Frank Bidart | Literature | 2006 |
| George Biddle, 1885-1973 | Art | 1961 |
| Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902 | Art | 1898 |
| John Bigelow, 1817-1911 | Literature | 1898 |
| Arthur Bird, 1856-1923 | Music | 1898 |
| Elmer Bischoff, 1916-1991 | Art | 1988 |
| Morris Bishop, 1893-1973 | Literature | 1973 |
| Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979 | Literature | 1954 |
| Isabel Bishop, 1902-1988 | Art | 1944 |
| James Bucklin Bishop, 1847-1928 | Literature | 1923 |
| William Henry Bishop, 1847-1928 | Literature | 1918 |
| Karl Bitter, 1867-1915 | Art | 1910 |
| Richard P. Blackmur, 1904-1965 | Literature | 1956 |
| Marlon Blackwell | Architecture | 2021 |
| Edwin Howland Blashfield, 1848-1936 | Art | 1898 |
| Marc Blitzstein, 1905-1964 | Music | 1959 |
| Ernest Bloch, 1880-1959 | Music | 1937 |
| Harold Bloom, 1930-2019 | Literature | 1990 |
| Hyman Bloom, 1913-2009 | Art | 1974 |
| Robert Frederick Blum, 1857-1903 | Art | 1898 |
| Peter Blume, 1906-1992 | Art | 1951 |
| Robert Bly | Literature | 1987 |
| Louise Bogan, 1897-1970 | Literature | 1952 |
| Varujan Boghosian, 1926-2020 | Art | 1986 |
| William Bolcom | Music | 1993 |
| Ilya Bolotowsky, 1907-1981 | Art | 1982 |
| Lee Bontecou | Art | 2004 |
| Charles Borie, 1871-1943 | Architecture | 1937 |
| Louis Bouche, 1896-1969 | Art | 1953 |
| Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010 | Art | 1983 |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen, 1897-1973 | Literature | 1963 |
| Claude G. Bowers, 1878-1958 | Literature | 1937 |
| Paul Bowles, 1910-1999 | Literature | 1981 |
| James Boyd, 1888-1944 | Literature | 1938 |
| Martin Boykan, 1931-2021 | Music | 2011 |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle | Literature | 2009 |
| Kay Boyle, 1902-1992 | Literature | 1968 |
| Mark Bradford | Art | 2021 |
| Roard Bradford, 1896-1948 | Literature | 1947 |
| Gamaliel Bradford, 1863-1932 | Literature | 1915 |
| Henry Brant, 1913-2008 | Music | 1979 |
| Martin Bresnick | Music | 2006 |
| Marcel Breuer, 1902-1981 | Art | 1965 |
| Robert Bridges, 1858-1941 | Literature | 1906 |
| John Malcolm Brinnin, 1916-1998 | Literature | 1978 |
| Crane Brinton, 1898-1968 | Literature | 1955 |
| Howard Brockway, 1870-1951 | Music | 1910 |
| Joseph Brodsky, 1940-1996 | Literature | 1979 |
| Louis Bromfield, 1896-1956 | Literature | 1928 |
| Alexander Brook, 1898-1980 | Art | 1942 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, 1917-2000 | Literature | 1976 |
| James Brooks, 1906-1992 | Art | 1973 |
| Cleanth Brooks, 1906-1994 | Literature | 1970 |
| Van Wyck Brooks, 1886-1963 | Literature | 1925 |
| Richard E. Brooks, 1865-1919 | Art | 1908 |
| John Mason Brown, 1900-1969 | Literature | 1950 |
| Arthur Jr. Brown, 1874-1957 | Architecture | 1940 |
| Glenn Brown, 1854-1932 | Art | 1909 |
| George Elmer Browne, 1871-1946 | Art | 1929 |
| William Crary Brownell, 1851-1928 | Literature | 1898 |
| Edward Bruce, 1879-1943 | Art | 1939 |
| Arnold W. Brunner, 1857-1925 | Architecture | 1913 |
| George de Forest Brush, 1855-1941 | Art | 1898 |
| Robert Brustein | Literature | 1999 |
| Art Buchwald, 1925-2007 | Literature | 1986 |
| Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973 | Literature | 1936 |
| Dudley Buck, 1839-1909 | Music | 1898 |
| William Gedney Bunce, 1840-1916 | Art | 1898 |
| Gordon Bunshaft, 1909-1990 | Architecture | 1960 |
| Charles E. Burchfield, 1893-1967 | Art | 1943 |
| Kenneth Burke, 1897-1993 | Literature | 1951 |
| David Burliuk, 1882-1967 | Art | 1967 |
| Daniel Hudson Burnham, 1846-1912 | Architecture | 1906 |
| William S. Burroughs, 1914-1997 | Literature | 1983 |
| John Burroughs, 1837-1921 | Literature | 1898 |
| Struthers Burt, 1882-1954 | Literature | 1926 |
| Richard Burton, 1861-1940 | Literature | 1908 |
| Howard Russell Butler, 1856-1934 | Art | 1916 |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, 1862-1947 | Literature | 1909 |
| Witter Bynner, 1881-1968 | Literature | 1962 |
| James Branch Cabell, 1879-1958 | Literature | 1937 |
| George Washington Cable, 1844-1925 | Literature | 1898 |
| Charles W. Cadman, 1881-1946 | Music | 1932 |
| Paul Cadmus, 1904-1999 | Art | 1975 |
| John Cage, 1912-1992 | Music | 1968 |
| Alexander Calder, 1898-1976 | Art | 1960 |
| Stirling Calder, 1870-1945 | Art | 1916 |
| Erskine Caldwell, 1903-1987 | Literature | 1942 |
| Hortense Calisher, 1925-2009 | Literature | 1977 |
| Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987 | Literature | 1973 |
| Henry Seidel Canby, 1878-1961 | Literature | 1931 |
| Truman Capote, 1924-1984 | Literature | 1964 |
| Peter Carey | Literature | 2016 |
| Emil Carlsen, 1853-1932 | Art | 1908 |
| Bliss Carman, 1861-1929 | Literature | 1898 |
| Robert A. Caro | Literature | 2008 |
| John Alden Carpenter, 1876-1951 | Music | 1918 |
| John M. Carrere, 1858-1911 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Rachel Carson, 1907-1964 | Literature | 1953 |
| Bennett L. Carter, 1907-2003 | Music | 1996 |
| Elliott Carter, 1908-2012 | Music | 1956 |
| Raymond Carver, 1938-1988 | Literature | 1988 |
| Federico Castellon, 1914-1971 | Art | 1968 |
| Willa Cather, 1876-1947 | Literature | 1929 |
| Bruce Catton, 1899-1978 | Literature | 1955 |
| Giorgio Cavallon, 1904-1989 | Art | 1988 |
| Madison J. Cawein, 1865-1914 | Literature | 1908 |
| Vija Celmins | Art | 1996 |
| Michael Chabon | Literature | 2012 |
| French Ensor Chadwick, 1844-1919 | Literature | 1912 |
| George W. Chadwick, 1854-1931 | Music | 1898 |
| John Chamberlain, 1927-2011 | Art | 1990 |
| Robert W. Chambers, 1865-1933 | Literature | 1909 |
| Edward Channing, 1856-1931 | Literature | 1911 |
| Stuart Chase, 1888-1985 | Literature | 1938 |
| William Merritt Chase, 1849-1916 | Art | 1898 |
| Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, 1865-1945 | Literature | 1912 |
| John Cheever, 1912-1982 | Literature | 1957 |
| Chen Yi | Music | 2019 |
| John Vance Cheney, 1848-1922 | Literature | 1908 |
| Ron Chernow | Literature | 2018 |
| Mel Chin | Art | 2021 |
| Wen-chung Chou, 1923-2019 | Music | 1982 |
| Christo, 1935-2020 | Art | 1989 |
| Winston Churchill, 1871-1947 | Literature | 1908 |
| Marchette Chute, 1909-1994 | Literature | 1957 |
| John Ciardi, 1916-1986 | Literature | 1957 |
| Amy Clampitt, 1920-1994 | Literature | 1987 |
| Eleanor Clark, 1914-1996 | Literature | 1968 |
| Allan Clark, 1896-1950 | Art | 1931 |
| Gilmore D. Clarke, 1892-1982 | Architecture | 1937 |
| Ralph Clarkson, 1861-1942 | Art | 1912 |
| Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910 | Literature | 1898 |
| Chuck Close, 1940-2021 | Art | 1992 |
| Ta-Nehisi Coates | Literature | 2021 |
| Robert M. Coates, 1897-1973 | Literature | 1958 |
| Henry N. Cobb, 1926-2020 | Architecture | 1980 |
| Robert P. Tristram Coffin, 1892-1955 | Literature | 1946 |
| Henri Cole | Literature | 2017 |
| Timothy Cole, 1852-1931 | Art | 1908 |
| Ornette Coleman, 1930-2015 | Music | 1997 |
| Billy Collins | Literature | 2016 |
| Alfred Q. Collins, 1855-1903 | Art | 1898 |
| Mary M. Colum, 1877-1957 | Literature | 1953 |
| Padraic Colum, 1881-1972 | Literature | 1948 |
| Henry Steele Commager, 1902-1998 | Literature | 1952 |
| Evan S. Connell, 1924-2013 | Literature | 1988 |
| Marc Connelly, 1890-1980 | Literature | 1935 |
| James Brendan Connolly, 1868-1957 | Literature | 1908 |
| Frederick S. Converse, 1871-1940 | Music | 1908 |
| Moncure D. Conway, 1832-1907 | Literature | 1898 |
| Walter Cook, 1846-1916 | Art | 1908 |
| Robert Coover | Literature | 1987 |
| Aaron Copland, 1900-1990 | Music | 1942 |
| John Corigliano | Music | 1991 |
| James Corner | Architecture | 2021 |
| Royal Cortissoz, 1869-1948 | Literature | 1908 |
| Henry Cowell, 1897-1965 | Music | 1951 |
| Malcolm Cowley, 1898-1987 | Literature | 1949 |
| Gardner Cox, 1906-1988 | Art | 1957 |
| Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919 | Art | 1898 |
| James Gould Cozzens, 1903-1978 | Literature | 1943 |
| Ralph Adams Cram, 1863-1942 | Architecture | 1915 |
| Francis Marion Crawford, 1854-1909 | Literature | 1898 |
| Robert Creeley, 1926-2005 | Literature | 1987 |
| Paul Philippe Cret, 1876-1945 | Architecture | 1936 |
| Herbert Croly, 1869-1930 | Literature | 1912 |
| John Walter Cross, 1878-1951 | Art | 1947 |
| Wilbur L. Cross, 1862-1948 | Literature | 1911 |
| Rachel Crothers, 1878-1958 | Literature | 1933 |
| Samuel McChord Crothers, 1857-1927 | Literature | 1906 |
| Frederic Crowninshield, 1845-1918 | Art | 1908 |
| George Crumb | Music | 1975 |
| E. E. Cummings, 1894-1962 | Literature | 1949 |
| Michael Cunningham | Literature | 2011 |
| Sebastian Currier | Music | 2016 |
| John Steuart Curry, 1897-1946 | Art | 1942 |
| Edward Dahlberg, 1900-1977 | Literature | 1968 |
| Cyrus Dallin, 1861-1944 | Art | 1916 |
| Peter Dalton, 1894-1972 | Art | 1952 |
| Augustin Daly, 1838-1899 | Literature | 1898 |
| Walter Damrosch, 1862-1950 | Music | 1898 |
| William T. Dannat, 1853-1929 | Art | 1898 |
| Edwidge Danticat | Literature | 2020 |
| Mario Davidovsky, 1934-2019 | Music | 1982 |
| Jo Davidson, 1883-1952 | Art | 1944 |
| Anthony Davis | Music | 2021 |
| H. L. Davis, 1896-1960 | Literature | 1956 |
| Stuart Davis, 1894-1964 | Art | 1956 |
| Owen Davis, 1874-1956 | Literature | 1923 |
| Frank Miles Day, 1861-1918 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Joseph R. De Camp, 1858-1923 | Art | 1908 |
| Jose De Creeft, 1884-1982 | Art | 1955 |
| Willem De Kooning, 1904-1997 | Art | 1960 |
| Jean De Marco, 1898-1990 | Art | 1959 |
| Adolph Dehn, 1895-1968 | Art | 1965 |
| Charles DeKay, 1848-1935 | Literature | 1905 |
| Reginald DeKoven, 1859-1920 | Music | 1898 |
| David Del Tredici | Music | 1984 |
| Eric DeLamarter, 1880-1953 | Music | 1938 |
| Margaret Deland, 1857-1945 | Literature | 1926 |
| William Adams Delano, 1874-1960 | Architecture | 1931 |
| Don DeLillo | Literature | 1989 |
| Norman Dello Joio, 1913-2008 | Music | 1961 |
| Donald DeLue, 1898-1988 | Art | 1946 |
| Jose DeRivera, 1904-1985 | Art | 1971 |
| Babette Deutsch, 1895-1982 | Literature | 1958 |
| Bernard DeVoto, 1897-1955 | Literature | 1948 |
| Peter DeVries, 1910-1993 | Literature | 1969 |
| Charles Melville Dewey, 1849-1937 | Art | 1908 |
| Thomas W. Dewing, 1851-1938 | Art | 1908 |
| Mark di Suvero | Art | 1986 |
| David Diamond, 1915-2005 | Music | 1966 |
| Junot Díaz | Literature | 2017 |
| James Dickey, 1923-1997 | Literature | 1972 |
| Edwin Dickinson, 1891-1978 | Art | 1956 |
| Sidney E. Dickinson, 1890-1980 | Art | 1931 |
| Joan Didion | Literature | 1981 |
| Richard Diebenkorn, 1922-1993 | Art | 1967 |
| William Hunt Diederich, 1884-1953 | Art | 1938 |
| Frederick Dielman, 1847-1935 | Art | 1908 |
| Annie Dillard | Literature | 1999 |
| Elizabeth Diller | Architecture | 2012 |
| Jim Dine | Art | 1980 |
| E. L. Doctorow, 1931-2015 | Literature | 1984 |
| Lois Dodd | Art | 1998 |
| Theodore A. Dodge, 1842-1909 | Literature | 1908 |
| John M. Donaldson, 1854-1941 | Architecture | 1910 |
| John Dos Passos, 1896-1970 | Literature | 1937 |
| Paul Dougherty, 1877-1947 | Art | 1908 |
| Rita Dove | Literature | 2011 |
| Rackstraw Downes | Art | 1999 |
| Jacob Druckman, 1928-1996 | Music | 1978 |
| W. E. Burghardt DuBois, 1868-1963 | Literature | 1944 |
| Guy Pene DuBois, 1884-1958 | Art | 1942 |
| Rene Jules Dubos, 1901-1982 | Literature | 1979 |
| Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 | Art | 1960 |
| Frank V. DuMond, 1865-1951 | Art | 1918 |
| Carroll Dunham | Art | 2020 |
| Finley Peter Dunne, 1867-1936 | Literature | 1908 |
| Will Durant, 1885-1981 | Literature | 1959 |
| Frank Duveneck, 1848-1919 | Art | 1898 |
| Charles Eames, 1907-1978 | Architecture | 1977 |
| Walter Prichard Eaton, 1878-1957 | Literature | 1918 |
| Richard Eberhart, 1904-2005 | Literature | 1960 |
| Kerr Eby, 1889-1946 | Art | 1937 |
| Leon Edel, 1907-1997 | Literature | 1964 |
| Irwin Edman, 1896-1954 | Literature | 1941 |
| George Wharton Edwards, 1869-1950 | Art | 1925 |
| Harry Stillwell Edwards, 1855-1938 | Literature | 1912 |
| Maurice Francis Egan, 1852-1924 | Literature | 1908 |
| Dave Eggers | Literature | 2015 |
| Edward Eggleston, 1837-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| Loren Eiseley, 1907-1977 | Literature | 1971 |
| Deborah Eisenberg | Literature | 2007 |
| Nicole Eisenman | Art | 2018 |
| Peter Eisenman | Architecture | 2001 |
| Stanley Elkin, 1930-1995 | Literature | 1982 |
| Thomas Harlan Ellett, 1880-1951 | Architecture | 1943 |
| Duke Ellington, 1899-1974 | Music | 1970 |
| Ralph Ellison, 1914-1994 | Literature | 1964 |
| Richard Ellmann, 1918-1987 | Literature | 1971 |
| Aymar II Embury, 1880-1966 | Architecture | 1946 |
| Louise Erdrich | Literature | 1998 |
| Jimmy Ernst, 1920-1984 | Art | 1983 |
| John Erskine, 1879-1951 | Literature | 1920 |
| Marisol Escobar, 1930-2016 | Art | 1978 |
| Jeffrey Eugenides | Literature | 2018 |
| Rudulph Evans, 1878-1960 | Art | 1926 |
| Philip Evergood, 1901-1973 | Art | 1959 |
| Robert Fagles, 1933-2008 | Literature | 1998 |
| James T. Farrell, 1904-1979 | Literature | 1942 |
| William Faulkner, 1897-1962 | Literature | 1939 |
| Barry Faulkner, 1881-1962 | Art | 1920 |
| Edgar Fawcett, 1847-1904 | Literature | 1898 |
| Jules Feiffer | Literature | 1995 |
| Lyonel Feininger, 1871-1956 | Art | 1955 |
| Edna Ferber, 1887-1968 | Literature | 1930 |
| Francis Fergusson, 1904-1986 | Literature | 1962 |
| Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021 | Literature | 2003 |
| Chester B. Fernald, 1869-1938 | Literature | 1910 |
| Leslie Fiedler, 1917-2003 | Literature | 1988 |
| Henry T. Finck, 1854-1926 | Literature | 1908 |
| Vivian Fine, 1913-2000 | Music | 1980 |
| John Huston Finley, 1863-1940 | Literature | 1908 |
| Ross Lee Finney, 1906-1997 | Music | 1962 |
| Oscar W. Firkins, 1864-1932 | Literature | 1912 |
| Eric Fischl | Art | 2006 |
| M. F. K. Fisher, 1908-1992 | Literature | 1991 |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1879-1958 | Literature | 1931 |
| Willard Fiske, 1831-1904 | Literature | 1898 |
| Dudley Fitts, 1903-1969 | Literature | 1957 |
| Robert Fitzgerald, 1910-1985 | Literature | 1962 |
| John Flanagan, 1865-1952 | Art | 1923 |
| Janet Flanner, 1892-1978 | Literature | 1959 |
| John Gould Fletcher, 1886-1950 | Literature | 1949 |
| Jefferson Butler Fletcher, 1865-1946 | Literature | 1918 |
| James Thomas Flexner, 1908-2003 | Literature | 1976 |
| Carlisle Floyd | Music | 2001 |
| John F. Folinsbee, 1892-1972 | Art | 1953 |
| Horton Foote, 1916-2009 | Literature | 1998 |
| Shelby Foote, 1916-2005 | Literature | 1994 |
| Arthur Foote, 1853-1937 | Music | 1898 |
| James Forbes, 1871-1938 | Literature | 1922 |
| Richard Ford | Literature | 1998 |
| Worthington C. Ford, 1858-1941 | Literature | 1908 |
| Paul Leicester Ford, 1865-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| Lukas Foss, 1922-2009 | Music | 1962 |
| Ben Foster, 1852-1926 | Art | 1908 |
| Paula Fox, 1923-2017 | Literature | 2004 |
| John Jr. Fox, 1863-1919 | Literature | 1898 |
| Kenneth Frampton | Architecture | 2012 |
| Sam Francis, 1923-1994 | Art | 1980 |
| Robert Frank, 1924-2019 | Art | 2016 |
| Mary Frank | Art | 1984 |
| Waldo Frank, 1889-1967 | Literature | 1952 |
| Helen Frankenthaler, 1928-2011 | Art | 1974 |
| Jonathan Franzen | Literature | 2012 |
| Laura Gardin Fraser, 1889-1966 | Art | 1931 |
| James Earle Fraser, 1876-1953 | Art | 1915 |
| Ian Frazier | Literature | 2019 |
| Harold Frederic, 1856-1898 | Literature | 1898 |
| James Ingo Freed, 1930-2005 | Architecture | 1994 |
| Douglas Southall Freeman, 1886-1953 | Literature | 1937 |
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852-1930 | Literature | 1926 |
| Jane Freilicher, 1924-2014 | Art | 1989 |
| Daniel Chester French, 1850-1931 | Art | 1898 |
| Leo Friedlander, 1888-1966 | Art | 1953 |
| Robert Frost, 1874-1963 | Literature | 1916 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895-1983 | Architecture | 1963 |
| Henry B. Fuller, 1857-1929 | Literature | 1898 |
| Horace H. Jr. Furness, 1865-1930 | Literature | 1911 |
| Horace H. Furness, 1833-1912 | Literature | 1905 |
| Naum Gabo, 1890-1977 | Art | 1965 |
| William Gaddis, 1922-1998 | Literature | 1984 |
| Ernest J. Gaines, 1933-2019 | Literature | 1998 |
| Mary Gaitskill | Literature | 2020 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006 | Literature | 1966 |
| Daniel Garber, 1880-1958 | Art | 1948 |
| Hamlin Garland, 1860-1940 | Literature | 1898 |
| William H. Gass, 1924-2017 | Literature | 1983 |
| Lee Gatch, 1902-1968 | Art | 1966 |
| Theaster Gates | Art | 2021 |
| Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Literature | 1999 |
| Peter Gay, 1923-2015 | Literature | 1989 |
| Walter Gay, 1856-1937 | Art | 1898 |
| Frank Gehry | Architecture | 1987 |
| Charles Dana Gibson, 1867-1944 | Art | 1898 |
| Franklin Henry Giddings, 1855-1931 | Literature | 1918 |
| Miriam Gideon, 1906-1996 | Music | 1975 |
| Cass Gilbert, 1859-1934 | Architecture | 1906 |
| William Wallace Gilchrist, 1846-1916 | Music | 1898 |
| Richard Watson Gilder, 1844-1909 | Literature | 1898 |
| Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, 1831-1924 | Literature | 1906 |
| Brendan Gill, 1914-1997 | Literature | 1995 |
| Dizzy Gillespie, 1917-1993 | Music | 1993 |
| William Gillette, 1855-1937 | Literature | 1898 |
| Lawrence Gilman, 1878-1939 | Literature | 1908 |
| Daniel Coit Gilman, 1831-1908 | Literature | 1898 |
| Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997 | Literature | 1973 |
| Romaldo Giurgola, 1920-2016 | Architecture | 1977 |
| William J. Glackens, 1870-1938 | Art | 1936 |
| Ellen Glasgow, 1874-1945 | Literature | 1932 |
| Philip Glass | Music | 2003 |
| Louise Gluck | Literature | 1996 |
| Robert Gober | Art | 2012 |
| Edwin Godkin, 1831-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| Parke Godwin, 1816-1904 | Literature | 1898 |
| Leon Golub, 1922-2004 | Art | 2002 |
| Bertram G. Goodhue, 1869-1924 | Architecture | 1915 |
| Arthur Goodrich, 1878-1941 | Literature | 1927 |
| Mary Gordon | Literature | 2007 |
| George A. Gordon, 1853-1929 | Literature | 1898 |
| Adolph Gottlieb, 1903-1974 | Art | 1972 |
| Morton Gould, 1913-1996 | Music | 1986 |
| Charles Grafly, 1862-1929 | Art | 1908 |
| Jorie Graham | Literature | 2009 |
| Percy Grainger, 1882-1961 | Music | 1950 |
| Robert Grant, 1852-1940 | Literature | 1898 |
| Michael Graves, 1934-2015 | Architecture | 1991 |
| Nancy Graves, 1940-1995 | Art | 1990 |
| Morris Graves, 1910-2001 | Art | 1957 |
| Cleve Gray, 1918-2004 | Art | 1998 |
| Francine du Plessix Gray, 1930-2019 | Literature | 1992 |
| Julian Green, 1901-1998 | Literature | 1972 |
| Paul Eliot Green, 1894-1981 | Literature | 1941 |
| Dorothea Greenbaum, 1893-1986 | Art | 1968 |
| Stephen Greenblatt | Literature | 2008 |
| Balcomb Greene, 1904-1990 | Art | 1976 |
| Ferris Greenslet, 1875-1959 | Literature | 1908 |
| Horace Gregory, 1898-1982 | Literature | 1964 |
| John Gregory, 1879-1958 | Art | 1930 |
| Eliot Gregory, 1854-1915 | Art | 1898 |
| Walter Griffin, 1861-1935 | Architecture | 1923 |
| William Elliot Griffis, 1843-1928 | Literature | 1898 |
| Albert L. Groll, 1866-1952 | Art | 1932 |
| Red Grooms | Art | 2000 |
| Walter Gropius, 1883-1969 | Architecture | 1962 |
| William Gropper, 1897-1977 | Art | 1968 |
| Chaim Gross, 1904-1991 | Art | 1964 |
| George Grosz, 1893-1959 | Art | 1954 |
| Louis Gruenberg, 1884-1964 | Music | 1947 |
| John Guare | Literature | 1989 |
| Albert L. Guerard, 1880-1959 | Literature | 1958 |
| Jules Guerin, 1866-1946 | Art | 1908 |
| Eric Gugler, 1889-1974 | Architecture | 1942 |
| Francis B. Gummere, 1855-1919 | Literature | 1913 |
| Allan Gurganus | Literature | 2007 |
| A. R. Gurney, 1930-2017 | Literature | 2006 |
| Kathryn Gustafson | Architecture | 2021 |
| Philip Guston, 1913-1980 | Art | 1972 |
| Charles Gwathmey, 1938-2009 | Architecture | 1976 |
| Robert Gwathmey, 1903-1988 | Art | 1971 |
| Francis Hackett, 1883-1962 | Literature | 1949 |
| Henry Hadley, 1871-1937 | Music | 1908 |
| Arthur Twining Hadley, 1856-1930 | Literature | 1898 |
| Dimitri Hadzi, 1921-2006 | Art | 1983 |
| Hermann Hagedorn, 1882-1964 | Literature | 1920 |
| Emily Hahn, 1905-1997 | Literature | 1987 |
| Edward Everett Hale, 1822-1909 | Literature | 1905 |
| Donald Hall, 1938-2018 | Literature | 1989 |
| Ann Hamilton | Art | 2014 |
| Edith Hamilton, 1867-1963 | Literature | 1955 |
| Clayton Hamilton, 1881-1946 | Literature | 1912 |
| Oscar II Hammerstein, 1895-1960 | Literature | 1950 |
| Walker Hancock, 1901-1999 | Art | 1941 |
| Howard Hanson, 1896-1981 | Music | 1935 |
| William Nathaniel Harben, 1858-1919 | Literature | 1912 |
| John Harbison | Music | 1992 |
| Henry J. Hardenbergh, 1847-1918 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Elizabeth Hardwick, 1916-2007 | Literature | 1977 |
| Hugh Hardy, 1932-2017 | Architecture | 1993 |
| Arthur Sherburne Hardy, 1847-1930 | Literature | 1898 |
| Joy Harjo | Literature | 2021 |
| Henry Harland, 1861-1905 | Literature | 1898 |
| George McLean Harper, 1863-1947 | Literature | 1911 |
| Roy Harris, 1898-1979 | Music | 1944 |
| Joel Chandler Harris, 1848-1908 | Literature | 1905 |
| Jim Harrison, 1937-2016 | Literature | 2007 |
| Lou Harrison, 1917-2003 | Music | 1973 |
| Wallace K. Harrison, 1895-1981 | Architecture | 1960 |
| Henry Sydnor Harrison, 1880-1930 | Literature | 1914 |
| Birge Harrison, 1854-1929 | Art | 1908 |
| Alexander Harrison, 1853-1930 | Art | 1898 |
| Bret Harte, 1836-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| Stephen Hartke | Music | 2009 |
| Herbert Haseltine, 1877-1962 | Art | 1935 |
| Robert Hass | Literature | 2002 |
| Childe Hassam, 1859-1935 | Art | 1898 |
| Thomas Hastings, 1860-1929 | Architecture | 1906 |
| John Hawkes, 1925-1998 | Literature | 1980 |
| Charles W. Hawthorne, 1872-1930 | Art | 1920 |
| John Hay, 1838-1905 | Literature | 1898 |
| Robert Hayden, 1913-1980 | Literature | 1979 |
| Charles Downer Hazen, 1868-1941 | Literature | 1918 |
| Shirley Hazzard, 1931-2016 | Literature | 1982 |
| Anthony Hecht, 1923-2004 | Literature | 1970 |
| Mary Heilmann | Art | 2017 |
| Michael Heizer | Art | 2021 |
| Al Held, 1928-2005 | Art | 1984 |
| John Heliker, 1909-2000 | Art | 1969 |
| Joseph Heller, 1923-1999 | Literature | 1977 |
| Lillian Hellman, 1905-1984 | Literature | 1946 |
| Amy Hempel | Literature | 2017 |
| William J. Henderson, 1855-1937 | Literature | 1914 |
| Burton J. Hendrick, 1871-1949 | Literature | 1923 |
| Robert Henri, 1865-1929 | Art | 1908 |
| Victor Herbert, 1859-1924 | Music | 1908 |
| Oliver Herford, 1863-1935 | Literature | 1911 |
| Joseph Hergesheimer, 1880-1954 | Literature | 1920 |
| James A. Herne, 1839-1901 | Literature | 1898 |
| Robert Herrick, 1868-1938 | Literature | 1908 |
| John Hersey, 1914-1993 | Literature | 1950 |
| DuBose Heyward, 1885-1940 | Literature | 1937 |
| John Grier Hibben, 1861-1933 | Literature | 1912 |
| Eugene Higgins, 1874-1958 | Art | 1943 |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1823-1911 | Literature | 1898 |
| David Jayne Hill, 1850-1932 | Literature | 1920 |
| Edward Burlingame Hill, 1872-1960 | Music | 1916 |
| Robert S. Hillyer, 1895-1961 | Literature | 1938 |
| Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963 | Music | 1947 |
| Edward Hirsch | Literature | 2017 |
| Joseph Hirsch, 1910-1981 | Art | 1967 |
| Al Hirschfeld, 1903-2003 | Art | 2003 |
| Ripley Hitchcock, 1857-1918 | Literature | 1911 |
| Edward Hoagland | Literature | 1982 |
| William Ernest Hocking, 1873-1966 | Literature | 1947 |
| Malvina Hoffman, 1885-1966 | Art | 1937 |
| Hans Hofmann, 1880-1966 | Art | 1964 |
| Steven Holl | Architecture | 2000 |
| John Hollander, 1929-2013 | Literature | 1979 |
| Jenny Holzer | Art | 2018 |
| Winslow Homer, 1836-1910 | Art | 1905 |
| Walter Hood | Architecture | 2021 |
| Brian Hooker, 1880-1946 | Literature | 1912 |
| Charles Hopkinson, 1869-1962 | Art | 1935 |
| Edward Hopper, 1882-1967 | Art | 1945 |
| Donal Hord, 1902-1966 | Art | 1950 |
| Paul Horgan, 1903-1995 | Literature | 1956 |
| Alan Hovhaness, 1911-2000 | Music | 1977 |
| Richard Howard | Literature | 1983 |
| Cecil Howard, 1888-1956 | Art | 1938 |
| Sidney Howard, 1891-1939 | Literature | 1927 |
| John Galen Howard, 1864-1931 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Bronson Howard, 1842-1908 | Literature | 1898 |
| Irving Howe, 1920-1993 | Literature | 1979 |
| Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe, 1864-1960 | Literature | 1908 |
| William H. Howe, 1846-1929 | Art | 1908 |
| Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 | Literature | 1907 |
| John Mead Howells, 1868-1959 | Architecture | 1911 |
| William Dean Howells, 1837-1920 | Literature | 1898 |
| Langston Hughes, 1902-1967 | Literature | 1961 |
| Hatcher Hughes, 1884-1945 | Literature | 1924 |
| Rolfe Humphries, 1894-1969 | Literature | 1953 |
| James Gibbons Huneker, 1860-1921 | Literature | 1918 |
| Richard Hunt | Art | 1998 |
| Anna Hyatt Huntington, 1876-1973 | Art | 1927 |
| Archer Milton Huntington, 1870-1955 | Literature | 1911 |
| Karel Husa, 1921-2016 | Music | 1994 |
| Laurence Hutton, 1843-1904 | Literature | 1898 |
| Ada Louise Huxtable, 1921-2013 | Literature | 1977 |
| Andrew Imbrie, 1921-2007 | Music | 1969 |
| John Irving | Literature | 2001 |
| Robert Irwin | Art | 2007 |
| Samuel Isham, 1855-1914 | Art | 1908 |
| Christopher Isherwood, 1904-1986 | Literature | 1949 |
| Charles Ives, 1874-1954 | Music | 1946 |
| Josephine Jacobsen, 1908-2003 | Literature | 1994 |
| Yvonne Jacquette | Art | 2003 |
| Albert Jaegers, 1868-1925 | Art | 1912 |
| Stephen Jaffe | Music | 2012 |
| Marquis James, 1891-1955 | Literature | 1953 |
| Philip James, 1890-1975 | Music | 1933 |
| Henry James, 1843-1916 | Literature | 1898 |
| William James, 1842-1910 | Literature | 1898 |
| Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 | Literature | 1960 |
| Robinson Jeffers, 1887-1962 | Literature | 1937 |
| Joseph Jefferson, 1829-1905 | Literature | 1898 |
| C. Paul Jennewein, 1890-1978 | Art | 1931 |
| Bill Jensen | Art | 2014 |
| Ha Jin | Literature | 2014 |
| John M. Johansen, 1916-2012 | Architecture | 1979 |
| John C. Johansen, 1876-1964 | Art | 1930 |
| Jasper Johns | Art | 1973 |
| Denis Johnson, 1949-2017 | Literature | 2014 |
| Lester Johnson, 1919-2010 | Art | 2004 |
| Diane Johnson | Literature | 1999 |
| Edgar Johnson, 1901-1995 | Literature | 1975 |
| Philip Johnson, 1906-2005 | Architecture | 1963 |
| Owen Johnson, 1878-1952 | Literature | 1909 |
| Robert Underwood Johnson, 1853-1937 | Literature | 1898 |
| Ben Johnston, -2019 | Music | 2018 |
| Richard Malcolm Johnston, 1822-1898 | Literature | 1898 |
| Betsy Jolas | Music | 1983 |
| Joan Jonas | Art | 2016 |
| Edward P. Jones | Literature | 2019 |
| Robert Edmond Jones, 1887-1954 | Art | 1933 |
| Francis C. Jones, 1857-1932 | Art | 1908 |
| H. Bolton Jones, 1848-1927 | Art | 1908 |
| Matthew Josephson, 1899-1978 | Literature | 1948 |
| Ward Just, 1935-2020 | Literature | 2013 |
| Donald Justice, 1926-2004 | Literature | 1992 |
| Wolf Kahn, 1927-2020 | Art | 1984 |
| Louis I. Kahn, 1901-1974 | Architecture | 1964 |
| Justin Kaplan, 1925-2014 | Literature | 1985 |
| Alex Katz | Art | 1988 |
| George S. Kaufman, 1889-1961 | Literature | 1938 |
| Ulysses Kay, 1917-1995 | Music | 1979 |
| Alfred Kazin, 1915-1998 | Literature | 1965 |
| Donald Keene, 1922-2019 | Literature | 1986 |
| Garrison Keillor | Literature | 2001 |
| Helen Keller, 1880-1968 | Literature | 1933 |
| Ellsworth Kelly, 1923-2015 | Art | 1974 |
| Murray Kempton, 1918-1997 | Literature | 1995 |
| William Mitchell Kendall, 1856-1941 | Architecture | 1914 |
| William Sergeant Kendall, 1869-1938 | Art | 1908 |
| George F. Kennan, 1904-2005 | Literature | 1962 |
| George Kennan, 1845-1924 | Literature | 1898 |
| William Kennedy | Literature | 1993 |
| Rockwell Kent, 1882-1971 | Art | 1964 |
| György Kepes, 1906-2001 | Art | 1968 |
| Jerome Kern, 1885-1945 | Music | 1945 |
| Aaron Jay Kernis | Music | 2011 |
| Daniel Urban Kiley, 1912-2004 | Architecture | 1996 |
| Jamaica Kincaid | Literature | 2004 |
| William King, 1925-2015 | Art | 2003 |
| Barbara Kingsolver | Literature | 2021 |
| Maxine Hong Kingston | Literature | 2018 |
| Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014 | Literature | 1980 |
| Leon Kirchner, 1919-2009 | Music | 1962 |
| R.B. Kitaj, 1932-2007 | Art | 1982 |
| Karl Knaths, 1891-1971 | Art | 1955 |
| Kenneth Koch, 1925-2002 | Literature | 1996 |
| John Koch, 1909-1978 | Art | 1970 |
| Elizabeth Kolbert | Literature | 2021 |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | Literature | 2009 |
| Jane Kramer | Literature | 2016 |
| Henry Kreis, 1899-1963 | Art | 1951 |
| Ernst Krenek, 1900-1991 | Music | 1960 |
| Alfred Kreymborg, 1883-1966 | Literature | 1949 |
| Ernest R. Kroeger, 1862-1934 | Music | 1915 |
| Leon Kroll, 1884-1974 | Art | 1930 |
| Louis Kronenberger, 1904-1980 | Literature | 1951 |
| Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970 | Literature | 1937 |
| Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006 | Literature | 1963 |
| Tony Kushner | Literature | 2005 |
| Ezra Laderman, 1924-2015 | Music | 1991 |
| Albert Laessle, 1877-1954 | Art | 1931 |
| Oliver LaFarge, 1901-1963 | Literature | 1957 |
| Christopher LaFarge, 1897-1956 | Literature | 1947 |
| Bancel LaFarge, 1866-1938 | Architecture | 1898 |
| John LaFarge, 1835-1910 | Art | 1898 |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Literature | 2012 |
| William F. Lamb, 1883-1952 | Architecture | 1950 |
| Armin Landeck, 1905-1984 | Art | 1946 |
| David Lang | Music | 2014 |
| Paul Lansky | Music | 2016 |
| Ibram Lassaw, 1911-2003 | Art | 1984 |
| Gertrude K. Lathrop, 1896-1986 | Art | 1949 |
| Francis Lathrop, 1849-1909 | Art | 1898 |
| Richmond Lattimore, 1906-1984 | Literature | 1965 |
| James Laughlin, 1914-1997 | Literature | 1995 |
| Robert Laurent, 1890-1970 | Art | 1970 |
| Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000 | Art | 1965 |
| Lee Lawrie, 1877-1963 | Art | 1931 |
| Ernest Lawson, 1873-1939 | Art | 1918 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin, 1929-2018 | Literature | 2017 |
| Henry Charles Lea, 1825-1909 | Literature | 1905 |
| Rico Lebrun, 1900-1964 | Art | 1960 |
| Harper Lee, 1926-2016 | Literature | 2007 |
| Edwin Lefevre, 1871-1943 | Literature | 1916 |
| Clare Leighton, 1898-1989 | Art | 1951 |
| Tania Leon | Music | 2010 |
| William Ellery Leonard, 1876-1944 | Literature | 1926 |
| Fred Lerdahl | Music | 2010 |
| Alfred Leslie | Art | 2006 |
| Denise Levertov, 1925-1997 | Literature | 1980 |
| Julian Levi, 1900-1982 | Art | 1959 |
| Harry Levin, 1912-1994 | Literature | 1960 |
| Philip Levine, 1928-2015 | Literature | 1997 |
| David Levine, 1926-2009 | Art | 1983 |
| Jack Levine, 1915-2010 | Art | 1956 |
| George E. Lewis | Music | 2018 |
| R. W. B. Lewis, 1917-2002 | Literature | 1982 |
| Sinclair Lewis, 1885-1951 | Literature | 1935 |
| Roy Lichtenstein, 1923-1997 | Art | 1979 |
| Jonas Lie, 1880-1940 | Art | 1929 |
| Peter Lieberson, 1946-2011 | Music | 2006 |
| Glenn Ligon | Art | 2021 |
| Maya Lin | Art | 2005 |
| Harrie T. Lindeberg, 1880-1959 | Architecture | 1948 |
| Richard Lindner, 1901-1978 | Art | 1972 |
| Nicolas Vachel Lindsay, 1879-1931 | Literature | 1920 |
| Romulus Linney, 1930-2011 | Literature | 2002 |
| Jacques Lipchitz, 1891-1973 | Art | 1961 |
| Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974 | Literature | 1932 |
| Richard Lippold, 1915-2002 | Art | 1963 |
| Seymour Lipton, 1903-1986 | Art | 1975 |
| Nelson Lloyd, 1873-1933 | Literature | 1908 |
| DeWitt McClellan Lockman, 1870-1957 | Art | 1931 |
| George Cabot Lodge, 1873-1909 | Literature | 1908 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, 1850-1924 | Literature | 1898 |
| Louis Loeb, 1866-1909 | Art | 1908 |
| Charles Martin Loeffler, 1861-1935 | Music | 1908 |
| John Luther Long, 1861-1927 | Literature | 1908 |
| Nikolai Lopatnikoff, 1903-1976 | Music | 1963 |
| Barry Lopez, -2020 | Literature | 2020 |
| Thomas R. Lounsbury, 1838-1915 | Literature | 1898 |
| Robert Morss Lovett, 1870-1956 | Literature | 1908 |
| Will H. Low, 1853-1932 | Art | 1908 |
| Robert Lowell, 1917-1977 | Literature | 1954 |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 1856-1943 | Literature | 1910 |
| John Livingston Lowes, 1867-1945 | Literature | 1929 |
| Otto Luening, 1900-1996 | Music | 1952 |
| Charles F. Lummis, 1859-1928 | Literature | 1908 |
| Alison Lurie, 1926-2020 | Literature | 1989 |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1845-1916 | Literature | 1898 |
| Dwight Macdonald, 1906-1982 | Literature | 1970 |
| Edward MacDowell, 1861-1908 | Music | 1898 |
| Walter MacEwen, 1860-1943 | Art | 1908 |
| Loren MacIver, 1909-1998 | Art | 1959 |
| Percy MacKaye, 1875-1956 | Literature | 1908 |
| Jean MacLane, 1878-1964 | Art | 1931 |
| Archibald MacLeish, 1892-1982 | Literature | 1933 |
| Frederick MacMonnies, 1863-1937 | Art | 1898 |
| Hermon A. MacNeil, 1866-1947 | Art | 1908 |
| Charles D. Maginnis, 1867-1955 | Art | 1944 |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1840-1914 | Literature | 1898 |
| Norman Mailer, 1923-2007 | Literature | 1967 |
| Bernard Malamud, 1914-1986 | Literature | 1964 |
| Janet Malcolm, 1934-2021 | Literature | 2001 |
| Oronzio Maldarelli, 1892-1963 | Art | 1950 |
| David Mamet | Literature | 1994 |
| Sylvia Plimack Mangold | Art | 2011 |
| Robert Mangold | Art | 2001 |
| Thomas Mann, 1875-1955 | Literature | 1950 |
| Paul Manship, 1885-1966 | Art | 1920 |
| Conrad Marca-Relli, 1913-2000 | Art | 1976 |
| Brice Marden | Art | 1998 |
| John Marin, 1870-1953 | Art | 1942 |
| Edwin Markham, 1852-1940 | Literature | 1908 |
| John P. Marquand, 1893-1960 | Literature | 1940 |
| Don Marquis, 1878-1937 | Literature | 1923 |
| Carl Marr, 1858-1936 | Art | 1908 |
| Wynton Marsalis | Music | 2021 |
| Reginald Marsh, 1898-1954 | Art | 1946 |
| Agnes Martin, 1912-2004 | Art | 1989 |
| Edward Sanford Martin, 1856-1939 | Literature | 1908 |
| Donald Martino, 1931-2005 | Music | 1981 |
| Bohuslav Martinu, 1880-1959 | Music | 1955 |
| Daniel Gregory Mason, 1873-1953 | Music | 1938 |
| Edgar Lee Masters, 1869-1950 | Literature | 1918 |
| Frank Jewett Jr. Mather, 1868-1953 | Literature | 1913 |
| Brander Matthews, 1852-1929 | Literature | 1898 |
| Louisa Matthiasdottir, 1917-2000 | Art | 1998 |
| Peter Matthiessen, 1927-2014 | Literature | 1974 |
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| William Maxwell, 1908-2000 | Literature | 1963 |
| Thom Mayne | Architecture | 2010 |
| Colum McCann | Literature | 2017 |
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| J. D. McClatchy, 1945-2018 | Literature | 1999 |
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| Carson McCullers, 1917-1967 | Literature | 1952 |
| David McCullough | Literature | 2006 |
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| Phyllis McGinley, 1905-1978 | Literature | 1955 |
| Thomas McGuane | Literature | 2010 |
| St. Clair McKelway, 1885-1915 | Literature | 1898 |
| Charles Follen McKim, 1847-1909 | Architecture | 1898 |
| John Bach McMaster, 1852-1932 | Literature | 1898 |
| Terrence McNally, -2020 | Literature | 2018 |
| George McNeil, 1908-1995 | Art | 1989 |
| John McPhee | Literature | 1988 |
| Margaret Mead, 1901-1978 | Literature | 1955 |
| William Rutherford Mead, 1846-1928 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Julie Mehretu | Art | 2017 |
| Richard Meier | Architecture | 1983 |
| Gari Melchers, 1860-1932 | Art | 1898 |
| Peter Mennin, 1923-1983 | Music | 1965 |
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| Ivan Mestrovic, 1883-1962 | Architecture | 1956 |
| Willard Leroy Metcalf, 1858-1925 | Art | 1908 |
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| Josephine Miles, 1911-1985 | Literature | 1980 |
| Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950 | Literature | 1929 |
| Arthur Miller, 1915-2005 | Literature | 1958 |
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| Joaquin Miller, 1839-1913 | Literature | 1898 |
| Carl Milles, 1875-1955 | Art | 1947 |
| Francis Davis Millet, 1846-1912 | Art | 1908 |
| Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004 | Literature | 1982 |
| Joan Mitchell, 1926-1992 | Art | 1979 |
| Joseph Mitchell, 1908-1996 | Literature | 1970 |
| John Ames Mitchell, 1845-1918 | Literature | 1908 |
| Langdon E. Mitchell, 1862-1935 | Literature | 1908 |
| Donald Grant Mitchell, 1822-1908 | Literature | 1898 |
| Meredith Monk | Music | 2019 |
| William Vaughn Moody, 1869-1910 | Literature | 1905 |
| Lorrie Moore | Literature | 2006 |
| Bruce Moore, 1905-1980 | Art | 1949 |
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| Douglas Moore, 1893-1969 | Music | 1941 |
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| Wallace Morgan, 1873-1948 | Art | 1941 |
| Toshiko Mori | Architecture | 2020 |
| Samuel Eliot Morison, 1887-1976 | Literature | 1963 |
| Malcolm Morley, 1931-2018 | Art | 2011 |
| Christopher Morley, 1890-1957 | Literature | 1936 |
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| Wright Morris, 1910-1998 | Literature | 1970 |
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| Toni Morrison, 1931-2019 | Literature | 1981 |
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| Howard Moss, 1922-1987 | Literature | 1971 |
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| John Muir, 1838-1914 | Literature | 1898 |
| Paul Muldoon | Literature | 2008 |
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| Catherine Murphy | Art | 2002 |
| Albert Murray, 1916-2013 | Literature | 1997 |
| Elizabeth Murray, 1940-2007 | Art | 1992 |
| Nicolas Nabokov, 1903-1978 | Music | 1970 |
| Reuben Nakian, 1897-1986 | Art | 1974 |
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| Robert Nathan, 1894-1985 | Literature | 1936 |
| Bruce Nauman | Art | 2001 |
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| Howard Nemerov, 1920-1991 | Literature | 1960 |
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| Louise Nevelson, 1899-1988 | Art | 1968 |
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| Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971 | Literature | 1953 |
| Charles H. Niehaus, 1855-1935 | Art | 1916 |
| Anais Nin, 1903-1977 | Literature | 1974 |
| Costantino Nivola, 1911-1988 | Art | 1972 |
| Isamu Noguchi, 1904-1988 | Art | 1962 |
| Kenneth Noland, 1924-2010 | Art | 1977 |
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| Lynn Nottage | Literature | 2018 |
| Thomas Nozkowski, 1944-2019 | Art | 2010 |
| Sigrid Nunez | Literature | 2021 |
| Andrew O'Connor, 1874-1941 | Art | 1922 |
| John O'Hara, 1905-1970 | Literature | 1957 |
| Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986 | Art | 1949 |
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| Joyce Carol Oates | Literature | 1978 |
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| Arne Oldberg, 1874-1962 | Music | 1915 |
| Claes Oldenburg | Art | 1975 |
| Sharon Olds | Literature | 2015 |
| Laurie Olin | Architecture | 2005 |
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| Nathan Oliveira, 1928-2010 | Art | 1994 |
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| Cynthia Ozick | Literature | 1988 |
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| Suzan-Lori Parks | Literature | 2019 |
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| Ann Patchett | Literature | 2017 |
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| I. M. Pei, 1917-2019 | Architecture | 1963 |
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| Caryl Phillips | Literature | 2021 |
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| Henry Varnum Poor, 1888-1970 | Art | 1943 |
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| George Rickey, 1907-2002 | Art | 1974 |
| Wallingford Riegger, 1885-1961 | Music | 1953 |
| Terry Riley | Music | 2020 |
| James Whitcomb Riley, 1848-1916 | Literature | 1898 |
| Faith Ringgold | Art | 2021 |
| Larry Rivers, 1924-2002 | Art | 1979 |
| George Lockhard Rives, 1849-1917 | Literature | 1914 |
| Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1886-1941 | Literature | 1941 |
| Kenneth L. Roberts, 1885-1957 | Literature | 1935 |
| Charles G. D. Roberts, 1860-1943 | Literature | 1898 |
| Marilynne Robinson | Literature | 2010 |
| Boardman Robinson, 1876-1952 | Art | 1938 |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935 | Literature | 1908 |
| George Rochberg, 1918-2005 | Music | 1985 |
| Kevin Roche, 1922-2019 | Architecture | 1970 |
| Dorothea Rockburne | Art | 2001 |
| Richard Rodgers, 1902-1979 | Music | 1955 |
| Theodore Roethke, 1908-1963 | Literature | 1956 |
| Bernard Rogers, 1893-1968 | Music | 1947 |
| Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919 | Literature | 1898 |
| Elihu Root, 1845-1937 | Literature | 1915 |
| Ned Rorem | Music | 1979 |
| James Rosenquist, 1933-2017 | Art | 1987 |
| Theodore J. Roszak, 1907-1981 | Art | 1964 |
| Philip Roth, 1933-2018 | Literature | 1970 |
| Ernest David Roth, 1879-1964 | Art | 1933 |
| Frederick G. R. Roth, 1872-1944 | Art | 1910 |
| Susan Rothenberg, 1945-2020 | Art | 1990 |
| Mark Rothko, 1903-1970 | Art | 1968 |
| Christopher Rouse, 1949-2019 | Music | 2002 |
| Josiah Royce, 1855-1916 | Literature | 1898 |
| F. Wellington Ruckstull, 1853-1942 | Art | 1898 |
| Paul Rudolph, 1918-1997 | Architecture | 1971 |
| Carl Ruggles, 1876-1971 | Music | 1954 |
| Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980 | Literature | 1967 |
| Ed Ruscha | Art | 2001 |
| John Russell, 1919-2008 | Literature | 1996 |
| Kay Ryan | Literature | 2017 |
| Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1847-1917 | Art | 1908 |
| Robert Ryman, 1930-2019 | Art | 1994 |
| Frederic Rzewski, 1938-2021 | Music | 2009 |
| Betye Saar | Art | 2021 |
| Eero Saarinen, 1910-1961 | Architecture | 1954 |
| Oliver Sacks, 1933-2015 | Literature | 1996 |
| Edward Said, 1935-2003 | Literature | 2002 |
| Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1848-1907 | Art | 1898 |
| Harrison E. Salisbury, 1908-1993 | Literature | 1972 |
| David Salle | Art | 2016 |
| James Salter, 1925-2015 | Literature | 2000 |
| Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967 | Literature | 1933 |
| George Santayana, 1863-1952 | Literature | 1909 |
| John Singer Sargent, 1856-1925 | Art | 1905 |
| William Saroyan, 1908-1981 | Literature | 1943 |
| Peter Saul | Art | 2010 |
| George Saunders | Literature | 2018 |
| Eugene Francis Savage, 1883-1978 | Art | 1936 |
| Meyer Schapiro, 1904-1996 | Literature | 1976 |
| Ernest Schelling, 1876-1939 | Music | 1913 |
| Felix E. Schelling, 1858-1945 | Literature | 1911 |
| Stacy Schiff | Literature | 2019 |
| Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 1917-2007 | Literature | 1961 |
| Julian Schnabel | Art | 2020 |
| Henry Schnakenberg, 1892-1970 | Art | 1952 |
| W. Elmer Scholfied, 1867-1944 | Art | 1908 |
| Mark Schorer, 1907-1977 | Literature | 1962 |
| James Schouler, 1839-1920 | Literature | 1912 |
| Gunther Schuller, 1925-2015 | Music | 1967 |
| Grace Schulman | Literature | 2019 |
| William Schuman, 1910-1992 | Music | 1946 |
| Carl Schurz, 1829-1906 | Literature | 1898 |
| Montgomery Schuyler, 1843-1914 | Literature | 1908 |
| Joseph Schwantner | Music | 2002 |
| Clinton Scollard, 1860-1932 | Literature | 1908 |
| Horace E. Scudder, 1838-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| David Sedaris | Literature | 2019 |
| Anne Douglas Sedgwick, 1873-1935 | Literature | 1931 |
| Ellery Sedgwick, 1872-1960 | Literature | 1915 |
| Henry Dwight Sedgwick, 1861-1957 | Literature | 1908 |
| George Segal, 1924-2000 | Art | 1981 |
| Gilbert Seldes, 1892-1970 | Literature | 1963 |
| Annabelle Selldorf | Architecture | 2017 |
| Zoltan Sepeshy, 1898-1974 | Art | 1949 |
| Richard Serra | Art | 1995 |
| Jose Luis Sert, 1902-1983 | Architecture | 1966 |
| Roger Sessions, 1896-1985 | Music | 1938 |
| Ernest Thompson Seton, 1860-1946 | Literature | 1905 |
| Ben Shahn, 1898-1969 | Art | 1956 |
| Nathaniel S. Shaler, 1841-1906 | Literature | 1898 |
| Ralph Shapey, 1921-2002 | Music | 1989 |
| Joel Shapiro | Art | 1998 |
| Karl Shapiro, 1913-2000 | Literature | 1959 |
| Wallace Shawn | Literature | 2006 |
| Vincent Sheean, 1899-1975 | Literature | 1941 |
| Charles Sheeler, 1883-1965 | Art | 1963 |
| Edward Brewster Sheldon, 1886-1946 | Literature | 1918 |
| Harry Rowe Shelley, 1858-1947 | Music | 1898 |
| Sam Shepard, 1943-2017 | Literature | 1986 |
| Arthur Shepherd, 1880-1958 | Music | 1938 |
| Henry R. Shepley, 1887-1962 | Architecture | 1939 |
| Cindy Sherman | Art | 2005 |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman, 1881-1926 | Literature | 1918 |
| Frank Dempster Sherman, 1860-1916 | Literature | 1908 |
| Robert E. Sherwood, 1896-1955 | Literature | 1937 |
| Everett Shinn, 1876-1953 | Art | 1951 |
| Walter Shirlaw, 1838-1909 | Art | 1908 |
| Paul Shorey, 1857-1934 | Literature | 1911 |
| Henry M. Shrady, 1871-1922 | Art | 1910 |
| Elie Siegmeister, 1909-1991 | Music | 1990 |
| Roberto Sierra | Music | 2021 |
| Leslie Marmon Silko | Literature | 2021 |
| Amy Sillman | Art | 2020 |
| Charles Simic | Literature | 1995 |
| Edward E. Simmons, 1852-1931 | Art | 1898 |
| Sidney Simon, 1917-1997 | Art | 1996 |
| Louis A Simon, 1867-1958 | Architecture | 1941 |
| Lorna Simpson | Art | 2021 |
| Mona Simpson | Literature | 2020 |
| Upton Sinclair, 1878-1968 | Literature | 1944 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1904-1991 | Literature | 1965 |
| Alvin Singleton | Music | 2014 |
| John Sloan, 1871-1951 | Art | 1929 |
| William Milligan Sloane, 1850-1928 | Literature | 1898 |
| William T. Smedley, 1858-1920 | Art | 1908 |
| Jane Smiley | Literature | 2001 |
| Tracy K. Smith | Literature | 2021 |
| Kiki Smith | Art | 2005 |
| Tony Smith, 1912-1980 | Art | 1979 |
| William Jay Smith, 1918-2015 | Literature | 1975 |
| James Kellum Smith, 1893-1961 | Architecture | 1948 |
| David Stanley Smith, 1877-1949 | Music | 1910 |
| Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1838-1915 | Literature | 1898 |
| Kenneth Snelson, 1927-2016 | Art | 1994 |
| W. D. Snodgrass, 1926-2009 | Literature | 1972 |
| Gary Snyder | Literature | 1987 |
| Stephen Sondheim | Music | 1983 |
| Susan Sontag, 1933-2004 | Literature | 1979 |
| Leo Sowerby, 1895-1968 | Music | 1935 |
| Moses Soyer, 1899-1987 | Art | 1966 |
| Raphael Soyer, 1899-1987 | Art | 1958 |
| Albert Spalding, 1888-1953 | Music | 1926 |
| Eugene Speicher, 1883-1962 | Art | 1930 |
| Francis Speight, 1896-1989 | Art | 1960 |
| Elizabeth Spencer, 1921-2019 | Literature | 1985 |
| Nancy Spero, 1926-2009 | Art | 2006 |
| Art Spiegelman | Literature | 2015 |
| Jean Stafford, 1915-1979 | Literature | 1970 |
| Robert Starer, 1924-2001 | Music | 1994 |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1833-1909 | Literature | 1898 |
| Francis Steegmuller, 1906-1994 | Literature | 1966 |
| Wallace Stegner, 1909-1993 | Literature | 1969 |
| John E. Steinbeck, 1902-1968 | Literature | 1939 |
| Saul Steinberg, 1914-1999 | Art | 1968 |
| Pat Steir | Art | 2016 |
| Robert A. M. Stern | Architecture | 2011 |
| Maurice Sterne, 1878-1957 | Art | 1938 |
| Albert Sterner, 1863-1946 | Art | 1929 |
| Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955 | Literature | 1946 |
| Burton E. Stevenson, 1872-1962 | Literature | 1928 |
| Clyfford Still, 1904-1980 | Art | 1978 |
| William J. Stillman, 1828-1901 | Literature | 1898 |
| Edgar Stillman-Kelley, 1857-1944 | Music | 1898 |
| Frederic Jesup Stimson, 1855-1943 | Literature | 1898 |
| Frederick A. Stock, 1872-1942 | Music | 1912 |
| Frank R. Stockton, 1834-1902 | Literature | 1898 |
| Charles Warren Stoddard, 1843-1909 | Literature | 1898 |
| Albert Stoessel, 1894-1943 | Music | 1931 |
| Robert Stone, 1927-2015 | Literature | 1994 |
| Edward Durrell Stone, 1902-1978 | Architecture | 1958 |
| Mark Strand, 1934-2014 | Literature | 1981 |
| Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971 | Music | 1949 |
| Julian Street, 1879-1947 | Literature | 1924 |
| Austin Strong, 1881-1952 | Literature | 1929 |
| Simeon Strunsky, 1879-1947 | Literature | 1946 |
| Steven Stucky, 1949-2016 | Music | 2007 |
| Walter Stuempfig, 1914-1970 | Art | 1959 |
| William Styron, 1925-2006 | Literature | 1966 |
| Thomas R. Sullivan, 1849-1916 | Literature | 1898 |
| Egerton Swartwout, 1870-1943 | Architecture | 1940 |
| May Swenson, 1913-1989 | Literature | 1970 |
| Gardner Symons, 1861-1930 | Art | 1914 |
| Sarah Sze | Art | 2018 |
| Lorado Taft, 1860-1936 | Art | 1906 |
| Louise Talma, 1906-1996 | Music | 1974 |
| Edmund C. Tarbell, 1862-1938 | Art | 1908 |
| Booth Tarkington, 1869-1946 | Literature | 1908 |
| James Tate, 1943-2015 | Literature | 2004 |
| Allen Tate, 1899-1979 | Literature | 1949 |
| Peter Taylor, 1917-1994 | Literature | 1969 |
| Deems Taylor, 1885-1966 | Music | 1924 |
| Henry Osborn Taylor, 1856-1941 | Literature | 1915 |
| Alexander Tcherepnin, 1899-1977 | Music | 1974 |
| Nader Tehrani | Architecture | 2021 |
| Studs Terkel, 1912-2008 | Literature | 1997 |
| William Roscoe Thayer, 1859-1923 | Literature | 1911 |
| Abbott Handerson Thayer, 1849-1921 | Art | 1898 |
| Paul Theroux | Literature | 1984 |
| Wayne Thiebaud | Art | 1986 |
| Augusta Read Thomas | Music | 2009 |
| Lewis Thomas, 1913-1993 | Literature | 1984 |
| Albert E. Thomas, 1872-1947 | Literature | 1924 |
| Augustus Thomas, 1857-1934 | Literature | 1898 |
| Dorothy Thompson, 1894-1961 | Literature | 1938 |
| Randall Thompson, 1899-1984 | Music | 1938 |
| Maurice Thompson, 1844-1901 | Literature | 1898 |
| Virgil Thomson, 1896-1989 | Music | 1948 |
| William Thon, 1906-2000 | Art | 1967 |
| Ashley H. Thorndike, 1871-1933 | Literature | 1913 |
| Francis Thorne, 1922-2017 | Music | 1988 |
| Henry Threadgill | Music | 2021 |
| Chauncey Brewster Tinker, 1876-1963 | Literature | 1931 |
| Mark Tobey, 1890-1976 | Art | 1956 |
| Ernst Toch, 1887-1964 | Music | 1957 |
| George Tooker, 1920-2011 | Art | 1983 |
| L. Frank Tooker, 1855-1925 | Literature | 1911 |
| Ridgely Torrence, 1875-1950 | Literature | 1908 |
| Joan Tower | Music | 1998 |
| Edward W. Townsend, 1855-1942 | Literature | 1914 |
| Arthur Train, 1875-1945 | Literature | 1924 |
| William P. Trent, 1862-1939 | Literature | 1898 |
| Natasha Trethewey | Literature | 2019 |
| Calvin Trillin | Literature | 2008 |
| Lionel Trilling, 1905-1975 | Literature | 1951 |
| S. Breck P. Trowbridge, 1862-1925 | Architecture | 1915 |
| Dwight W. Tryon, 1848-1925 | Art | 1908 |
| Billie Tsien | Architecture | 2007 |
| Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912-1989 | Literature | 1968 |
| James Turrell | Art | 2011 |
| Richard Tuttle | Art | 2013 |
| John H. Twachtman, 1853-1902 | Art | 1898 |
| Cy Twombly, 1928-2011 | Art | 1987 |
| Jack Tworkov, 1900-1982 | Art | 1981 |
| Anne Tyler | Literature | 1983 |
| Moses Coit Tyler, 1835-1900 | Literature | 1898 |
| Chinary Ung | Music | 2020 |
| Louis Untermeyer, 1885-1977 | Literature | 1941 |
| John Updike, 1932-2009 | Literature | 1964 |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky, 1911-1990 | Music | 1973 |
| Frank V. Van der Stucken, 1858-1929 | Music | 1898 |
| Carl Van Doren, 1885-1950 | Literature | 1944 |
| Mark Van Doren, 1894-1972 | Literature | 1940 |
| John Van Druten, 1904-1957 | Literature | 1951 |
| Mona Van Duyn, 1921-2004 | Literature | 1983 |
| Paul Van Dyke, 1859-1933 | Literature | 1927 |
| John Charles Van Dyke, 1856-1932 | Literature | 1908 |
| Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933 | Literature | 1898 |
| Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1882-1944 | Literature | 1938 |
| Carl Van Vechten, 1880-1963 | Literature | 1961 |
| Stuyvesant Van Veen, 1910-1988 | Art | 1972 |
| Edgard Varese, 1885-1965 | Music | 1955 |
| Elihu Vedder, 1836-1923 | Art | 1898 |
| Helen Hennessy Vendler | Literature | 1993 |
| Robert Venturi, 1925-2018 | Architecture | 1990 |
| Esteban Vicente, 1903-2001 | Art | 1993 |
| Gore Vidal, 1925-2012 | Literature | 1999 |
| Herman K. Viele, 1856-1908 | Literature | 1908 |
| Frederick P. Vinton, 1846-1911 | Art | 1898 |
| Douglas Volk, 1856-1935 | Art | 1918 |
| Ursula von Rydingsvard | Art | 2008 |
| Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 | Literature | 1973 |
| Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 1872-1955 | Art | 1931 |
| Peter Voulkos, 1924-2002 | Art | 2001 |
| Melinda Wagner | Music | 2017 |
| Lionel Walden, 1861-1933 | Art | 1908 |
| Kara Walker | Art | 2012 |
| George Walker, 1922-2018 | Music | 1999 |
| Ralph Walker, 1889-1973 | Architecture | 1949 |
| Charles Howard Walker, 1857-1936 | Architecture | 1928 |
| Henry Oliver Walker, 1843-1929 | Art | 1898 |
| Horatio Walker, 1858-1938 | Art | 1898 |
| Robert Ward, 1917-2013 | Music | 1967 |
| John Quincy Adams Ward, 1830-1910 | Art | 1902 |
| Charles Dudley Warner, 1829-1900 | Literature | 1898 |
| Rosanna Warren | Literature | 2005 |
| Austin Warren, 1899-1986 | Literature | 1975 |
| Robert Penn Warren, 1905-1989 | Literature | 1950 |
| Charles Warren, 1868-1954 | Literature | 1925 |
| Whitney Warren, 1864-1943 | Architecture | 1908 |
| Franklin C. Watkins, 1884-1972 | Art | 1946 |
| Harry W. Watrous, 1857-1940 | Art | 1935 |
| Sidney B. Waugh, 1904-1963 | Art | 1941 |
| William Weaver, 1923-2013 | Literature | 1992 |
| Ben Weber, 1916-1979 | Music | 1971 |
| Max Weber, 1881-1961 | Art | 1955 |
| Carrie Mae Weems | Art | 2020 |
| Katharine Lane Weems, 1899-1989 | Art | 1952 |
| Adolph A. Weinman, 1870-1952 | Art | 1910 |
| J. Alden Weir, 1852-1919 | Art | 1898 |
| Hugo Weisgall, 1912-1997 | Music | 1975 |
| Eudora Welty, 1909-2001 | Literature | 1952 |
| Barrett Wendell, 1855-1921 | Literature | 1898 |
| Stow Wengenroth, 1906-1978 | Art | 1942 |
| Glenway Wescott, 1901-1987 | Literature | 1947 |
| Andrew F. West, 1853-1943 | Literature | 1911 |
| Edith Wharton, 1862-1937 | Literature | 1926 |
| John Hall Wheelock, 1886-1978 | Literature | 1948 |
| Edmund White | Literature | 1996 |
| Elwyn Brooks White, 1899-1985 | Literature | 1962 |
| Stewart Edward White, 1873-1946 | Literature | 1908 |
| William Allen White, 1868-1944 | Literature | 1908 |
| Stanford White, 1853-1906 | Architecture | 1906 |
| Andrew Dickson White, 1832-1918 | Literature | 1898 |
| Colson Whitehead | Literature | 2020 |
| Charles Goodrich Whiting, 1842-1908 | Literature | 1908 |
| Arthur Whiting, 1861-1936 | Music | 1905 |
| Brand Whitlock, 1869-1934 | Literature | 1913 |
| Stanley Whitney | Art | 2017 |
| John Edgar Wideman | Literature | 2016 |
| Elie Wiesel, 1928-2016 | Literature | 1996 |
| Richard Wilbur, 1921-2018 | Literature | 1957 |
| Thornton Wilder, 1897-1975 | Literature | 1928 |
| Irving R. Wiles, 1861-1948 | Art | 1908 |
| Terry Tempest Williams | Literature | 2019 |
| Tod Williams | Architecture | 2009 |
| Joy Williams | Literature | 2008 |
| C. K. Williams, 1936-2015 | Literature | 2003 |
| Tennessee Williams, 1911-1983 | Literature | 1952 |
| William Carlos Williams, 1883-1963 | Literature | 1950 |
| Francis Howard Williams, 1844-1922 | Literature | 1912 |
| Jesse Lynch Williams, 1871-1929 | Literature | 1908 |
| Garry Wills | Literature | 1995 |
| Lanford Wilson, 1937-2011 | Literature | 2004 |
| August Wilson, 1945-2005 | Literature | 1995 |
| Olly Wilson, 1937-2018 | Music | 1995 |
| Jane Wilson, 1924-2015 | Art | 1991 |
| Harry Leon Wilson, 1867-1939 | Literature | 1908 |
| Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924 | Literature | 1898 |
| Ezra Winter, 1886-1949 | Art | 1937 |
| William Winter, 1836-1917 | Literature | 1898 |
| Terry Winters | Art | 2013 |
| Yvor Winters, 1900-1967 | Literature | 1956 |
| Owen Wister, 1860-1938 | Literature | 1898 |
| Julia Wolfe | Music | 2017 |
| Tom Wolfe, 1931-2018 | Literature | 1999 |
| Thomas Wolfe, 1900-1938 | Literature | 1937 |
| Tobias Wolff | Literature | 2014 |
| Stefan Wolpe, 1902-1972 | Music | 1966 |
| Thomas W. Wood, 1823-1903 | Art | 1898 |
| George Edward Woodberry, 1855-1930 | Literature | 1898 |
| Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, 1867-1940 | Literature | 1933 |
| C. Vann Woodward, 1908-1999 | Literature | 1970 |
| Denys Wortman, 1887-1958 | Art | 1946 |
| Charles Wright | Literature | 1995 |
| James A. Wright, 1927-1980 | Literature | 1974 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959 | Art | 1947 |
| Charles Wuorinen, 1938-2020 | Music | 1985 |
| Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009 | Art | 1950 |
| Yehudi Wyner | Music | 1999 |
| Minoru Yamasaki, 1916-1986 | Architecture | 1982 |
| Meejin Yoon | Architecture | 2021 |
| Kevin Young | Literature | 2021 |
| Stark Young, 1881-1963 | Literature | 1938 |
| Mahonri M. Young, 1877-1957 | Art | 1935 |
| Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987 | Literature | 1982 |
| Clarence C. Zantzinger, 1872-1954 | Architecture | 1952 |
| William Zorach, 1887-1966 | Art | 1953 |
| Ellen Taaffe Zwilich | Music | 1992 |