Deceased Members

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A

Name Department Life Elected
Edwin Austin Abbey Art 1852 - 1911 1898
Brooks Adams Literature 1848 - 1927 1906
Charles Francis Adams Literature 1835 - 1915 1905
Franklin P. Adams Literature 1881 - 1960 1946
Henry Adams Literature 1838 - 1918 1898
Herbert Adams Art 1858 - 1945 1898
James Truslow Adams Literature 1878 - 1949 1923
Leonie Adams Literature 1899 - 1988 1951
Wayman Adams Art 1883 - 1959 1929
George Ade Literature 1866 - 1944 1908
David Adler Art 1882 - 1949 1946
Conrad Aiken Literature 1889 - 1973 1941
Robert Ingersoll Aitken Art 1878 - 1949 1915
Josef Albers Art 1888 - 1976 1968
Ivan Albright Art 1897 - 1983 1957
Henry Mills Alden Literature 1836 - 1919 1898
Edwin Anderson Alderman Literature 1861 - 1931 1925
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Literature 1836 - 1907 1898
Richard Aldrich Literature 1863 - 1937 1908
Chester Aldrich Art 1871 - 1940 1937
John White Alexander Art 1856 - 1915 1898
Nelson Algren Literature 1909 - 1981 1981
Hervey Allen Literature 1889 - 1949 1936
James Lane Allen Literature 1848 - 1925 1898
Edmond Amateis Art 1897 - 1981 1952
Winthrop Ames Literature 1871 - 1937 1931
A. R. Ammons Literature 1926 - 2001 1990
Sherwood Anderson Literature 1876 - 1941 1937
Maxwell Anderson Literature 1888 - 1959 1935
Charles M. Andrews Literature 1863 - 1943 1937
Alexander Archipenko Art 1887 - 1964 1962
Hannah Arendt Literature 1906 - 1975 1964
John Taylor Arms Art 1887 - 1953 1932
Newton Arvin Literature 1900 - 1963 1952
Gertrude Atherton Literature 1857 - 1948 1938
Wystan Hugh Auden Literature 1907 - 1973 1948
Louis Ayres Art 1874 - 1947 1944

 

B

Name Department Life Elected
George F. Babb Art 1836 - 1915 1907
Irving Babbitt Literature 1865 - 1933 1920
Irving Bachellor Literature 1859 - 1950 1920
Henry Bacon Art 1866 - 1924 1913
Leonard Bacon Literature 1887 - 1954 1941
Peggy Bacon Art 1895 - 1987 1956
Ray Stannard Baker Literature 1870 - 1946 1920
George Pierce Baker Literature 1866 - 1935 1916
James Baldwin Literature 1924 - 1987 1964
Simeon E. Baldwin Literature 1840 - 1927 1898
Hugo Ballin Art 1879 - 1956 1908
Samuel Barber Music 1910 - 1981 1941
George Gray Barnard Art 1863 - 1938 1908
Edward Larrabee Barnes Art 1915 - 2004 1991
Djuna Barnes Literature 1892 - 1982 1959
Philip Barry Literature 1896 - 1949 1930
Donald Barthelme Literature 1931 - 1989 1978
Frederic Clay Bartlett Art 1873 - 1953 1916
Paul Wayland Bartlett Art 1865 - 1925 1908
Leonard Baskin Art 1922 - 2000 1963
John Spencer Bassett Literature 1867 - 1928 1923
Hamilton Basso Literature 1904 - 1964 1955
Arlo Bates Literature 1850 - 1918 1905
Chester Beach Art 1881 - 1956 1918
Gifford Beal Art 1879 - 1956 1923
Charles Austin Beard Literature 1874 - 1948 1939
Romare H. Bearden Art 1912 - 1988 1972
Cecilia Beaux Art 1855 - 1942 1930
Carl Becker Literature 1873 - 1945 1933
J. Carroll Beckwith Art 1852 - 1917 1898
William Beebe Literature 1887 - 1962 1939
Samuel N. Behrman Literature 1893 - 1973 1943
Saul Bellow Literature 1915 - 2005 1958
George Wesley Bellows Art 1882 - 1925 1918
Pietro Belluschi Art 1899 - 1994 1955
Stephen Vincent Benet Literature 1898 - 1943 1929
William Rose Benet Literature 1886 - 1950 1933
Frank W. Benson Art 1862 - 1951 1911
Thomas Hart Benton Art 1889 - 1975 1942
Bernard Berenson Literature 1865 - 1959 1922
Arthur Berger Music 1912 - 2003 1972
William Bergsma Music 1921 - 1994 1967
Eugene Berman Art 1899 - 1972 1964
Leonid Berman Art 1896 - 1976 1976
Leonard Bernstein Music 1918 - 1990 1961
John Berryman Literature 1914 - 1972 1965
Louis Betts Art 1873 - 1961 1912
Albert J. Beveridge Literature 1862 - 1927 1920
George Biddle Art 1885 - 1973 1961
Albert Bierstadt Art 1830 - 1902 1898
John Bigelow Literature 1817 - 1911 1898
Arthur Bird Music 1856 - 1923 1898
Elmer Bischoff Art 1916 - 1991 1988
William Henry Bishop Literature 1847 - 1928 1918
Morris Bishop Literature 1893 - 1973 1973
James Bucklin Bishop Literature 1847 - 1928 1923
Isabel Bishop Art 1902 - 1988 1944
Elizabeth Bishop Literature 1911 - 1979 1954
Karl Bitter Art 1867 - 1915 1910
Richard P. Blackmur Literature 1904 - 1965 1956
Edwin Howland Blashfield Art 1848 - 1936 1898
Marc Blitzstein Music 1905 - 1964 1959
Ernest Bloch Music 1880 - 1959 1937
Robert Frederick Blum Art 1857 - 1903 1898
Peter Blume Art 1906 - 1992 1951
Louise Bogan Literature 1897 - 1970 1952
Ilya Bolotowsky Art 1907 - 1981 1982
Charles Borie Art 1871 - 1943 1937
Louis Bouche Art 1896 - 1969 1953
Catherine Drinker Bowen Literature 1897 - 1973 1963
Claude G. Bowers Literature 1878 - 1958 1937
Paul Bowles Literature 1910 - 1999 1981
James Boyd Literature 1888 - 1944 1938
Kay Boyle Literature 1902 - 1992 1968
Gamaliel Bradford Literature 1863 - 1932 1915
Roard Bradford Literature 1896 - 1948 1947
Henry Brant Music 1913 - 2008 1979
Marcel Breuer Art 1902 - 1981 1965
Robert Bridges Literature 1858 - 1941 1906
John Malcolm Brinnin Literature 1916 - 1998 1978
Crane Brinton Literature 1898 - 1968 1955
Howard Brockway Music 1870 - 1951 1910
Joseph Brodsky Literature 1940 - 1996 1979
Louis Bromfield Literature 1896 - 1956 1928
Alexander Brook Art 1898 - 1980 1942
Cleanth Brooks Literature 1906 - 1994 1970
Gwendolyn Brooks Literature 1917 - 2000 1976
James Brooks Art 1906 - 1992 1973
Richard E. Brooks Art 1865 - 1919 1908
Van Wyck Brooks Literature 1886 - 1963 1925
John Mason Brown Literature 1900 - 1969 1950
Glenn Brown Art 1854 - 1932 1909
Arthur Jr. Brown Art 1874 - 1957 1940
George Elmer Browne Art 1871 - 1946 1929
William Crary Brownell Literature 1851 - 1928 1898
Edward Bruce Art 1879 - 1943 1939
Arnold W. Brunner Art 1857 - 1925 1913
George de Forest Brush Art 1855 - 1941 1898
Pearl S. Buck Literature 1892 - 1973 1936
Dudley Buck Music 1839 - 1909 1898
William Gedney Bunce Art 1840 - 1916 1898
Gordon Bunshaft Art 1909 - 1990 1960
Charles E. Burchfield Art 1893 - 1967 1943
Kenneth Burke Literature 1897 - 1993 1951
David Burliuk Art 1882 - 1967 1967
Daniel Hudson Burnham Art 1846 - 1912 1906
William S. Burroughs Literature 1914 - 1997 1983
John Burroughs Literature 1837 - 1921 1898
Struthers Burt Literature 1882 - 1954 1926
Richard Burton Literature 1861 - 1940 1908
Howard Russell Butler Art 1856 - 1934 1916
Nicholas Murray Butler Literature 1862 - 1947 1909
Witter Bynner Literature 1881 - 1968 1962

 

C

Name Department Life Elected
James Branch Cabell Literature 1879 - 1958 1937
George Washington Cable Literature 1844 - 1925 1898
Charles W. Cadman Music 1881 - 1946 1932
Paul Cadmus Art 1904 - 1999 1975
John Cage Music 1912 - 1992 1968
Alexander Calder Art 1898 - 1976 1960
Stirling Calder Art 1870 - 1945 1916
Erskine Caldwell Literature 1903 - 1987 1942
Joseph Campbell Literature 1904 - 1987 1973
Henry Seidel Canby Literature 1878 - 1961 1931
Truman Capote Literature 1924 - 1984 1964
Emil Carlsen Art 1853 - 1932 1908
Bliss Carman Literature 1861 - 1929 1898
John Alden Carpenter Music 1876 - 1951 1918
John M. Carrere Art 1858 - 1911 1908
Rachel Carson Literature 1907 - 1964 1953
Bennett L. Carter Music 1907 - 2003 1996
Raymond Carver Literature 1938 - 1988 1988
Federico Castellon Art 1914 - 1971 1968
Willa Cather Literature 1876 - 1947 1929
Bruce Catton Literature 1899 - 1978 1955
Giorgio Cavallon Art 1904 - 1989 1988
Madison J. Cawein Literature 1865 - 1914 1908
French Ensor Chadwick Literature 1844 - 1919 1912
George W. Chadwick Music 1854 - 1931 1898
Robert W. Chambers Literature 1865 - 1933 1909
Edward Channing Literature 1856 - 1931 1911
William Merritt Chase Art 1849 - 1916 1898
Stuart Chase Literature 1888 - 1985 1938
Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor Literature 1865 - 1945 1912
John Cheever Literature 1912 - 1982 1957
John Vance Cheney Literature 1848 - 1922 1908
Winston Churchill Literature 1871 - 1947 1908
Marchette Chute Literature 1909 - 1994 1957
John Ciardi Literature 1916 - 1986 1957
Amy Clampitt Literature 1920 - 1994 1987
Eleanor Clark Literature 1914 - 1996 1968
Allan Clark Art 1896 - 1950 1931
Gilmore D. Clarke Art 1892 - 1982 1937
Ralph Clarkson Art 1861 - 1942 1912
Samuel Langhorne Clemens Literature 1835 - 1910 1898
Robert M. Coates Literature 1897 - 1973 1958
Robert P. Tristram Coffin Literature 1892 - 1955 1946
Timothy Cole Art 1852 - 1931 1908
Alfred Q. Collins Art 1855 - 1903 1898
Padraic Colum Literature 1881 - 1972 1948
Mary M. Colum Literature 1877 - 1957 1953
Henry Steele Commager Literature 1902 - 1998 1952
Marc Connelly Literature 1890 - 1980 1935
James Brendan Connolly Literature 1868 - 1957 1908
Frederick S. Converse Music 1871 - 1940 1908
Moncure D. Conway Literature 1832 - 1907 1898
Walter Cook Art 1846 - 1916 1908
Aaron Copland Music 1900 - 1990 1942
Royal Cortissoz Literature 1869 - 1948 1908
Henry Cowell Music 1897 - 1965 1951
Malcolm Cowley Literature 1898 - 1987 1949
Gardner Cox Art 1906 - 1988 1957
Kenyon Cox Art 1856 - 1919 1898
James Gould Cozzens Literature 1903 - 1978 1943
Ralph Adams Cram Art 1863 - 1942 1915
Francis Marion Crawford Literature 1854 - 1909 1898
Robert Creeley Literature 1926 - 2005 1987
Paul Philippe Cret Art 1876 - 1945 1936
Herbert Croly Literature 1869 - 1930 1912
John Walter Cross Art 1878 - 1951 1947
Wilbur L. Cross Literature 1862 - 1948 1911
Rachel Crothers Literature 1878 - 1958 1933
Samuel McChord Crothers Literature 1857 - 1927 1906
Frederic Crowninshield Art 1845 - 1918 1908
E. E. Cummings Literature 1894 - 1962 1949
John Steuart Curry Art 1897 - 1946 1942

 

D

Name Department Life Elected
Edward Dahlberg Literature 1900 - 1977 1968
Cyrus Dallin Art 1861 - 1944 1916
Peter Dalton Art 1894 - 1972 1952
Augustin Daly Literature 1838 - 1899 1898
Walter Damrosch Music 1862 - 1950 1898
William T. Dannat Art 1853 - 1929 1898
Jo Davidson Art 1883 - 1952 1944
H. L. Davis Literature 1896 - 1960 1956
Owen Davis Literature 1874 - 1956 1923
Stuart Davis Art 1894 - 1964 1956
Frank Miles Day Art 1861 - 1918 1908
Joseph R. De Camp Art 1858 - 1923 1908
Jose De Creeft Art 1884 - 1982 1955
Willem De Kooning Art 1904 - 1997 1960
Jean De Marco Art 1898 - 1990 1959
Adolph Dehn Art 1895 - 1968 1965
Charles DeKay Literature 1848 - 1935 1905
Reginald DeKoven Music 1859 - 1920 1898
Eric DeLamarter Music 1880 - 1953 1938
Margaret Deland Literature 1857 - 1945 1926
William Adams Delano Art 1874 - 1960 1931
Norman Dello Joio Music 1913 - 2008 1961
Donald DeLue Art 1898 - 1988 1946
Jose DeRivera Art 1904 - 1985 1971
Babette Deutsch Literature 1895 - 1982 1958
Bernard DeVoto Literature 1897 - 1955 1948
Peter DeVries Literature 1910 - 1993 1969
Charles Melville Dewey Art 1849 - 1937 1908
Thomas W. Dewing Art 1851 - 1938 1908
David Diamond Music 1915 - 2005 1966
James Dickey Literature 1923 - 1997 1972
Edwin Dickinson Art 1891 - 1978 1956
Sidney E. Dickinson Art 1890 - 1980 1931
Richard Diebenkorn Art 1922 - 1993 1967
William Hunt Diederich Art 1884 - 1953 1938
Frederick Dielman Art 1847 - 1935 1908
Theodore A. Dodge Literature 1842 - 1909 1908
John M. Donaldson Art 1854 - 1941 1910
John Dos Passos Literature 1896 - 1970 1937
Paul Dougherty Art 1877 - 1947 1908
Jacob Druckman Music 1928 - 1996 1978
Guy Pene DuBois Art 1884 - 1958 1942
W. E. Burghardt DuBois Literature 1868 - 1963 1944
Rene Jules Dubos Literature 1901 - 1982 1979
Marcel Duchamp Art 1887 - 1968 1960
Frank V. DuMond Art 1865 - 1951 1918
Finley Peter Dunne Literature 1867 - 1936 1908
Will Durant Literature 1885 - 1981 1959
Frank Duveneck Art 1848 - 1919 1898

 

E

Name Department Life Elected
Charles Eames Art 1907 - 1978 1977
Walter Prichard Eaton Literature 1878 - 1957 1918
Richard Eberhart Literature 1904 - 2005 1960
Kerr Eby Art 1889 - 1946 1937
Leon Edel Literature 1907 - 1997 1964
Irwin Edman Literature 1896 - 1954 1941
George Wharton Edwards Art 1869 - 1950 1925
Harry Stillwell Edwards Literature 1855 - 1938 1912
Maurice Francis Egan Literature 1852 - 1924 1908
Edward Eggleston Literature 1837 - 1902 1898
Loren Eiseley Literature 1907 - 1977 1971
Stanley Elkin Literature 1930 - 1995 1982
Thomas Harlan Ellett Art 1880 - 1951 1943
Duke Ellington Music 1899 - 1974 1970
Ralph Ellison Literature 1914 - 1994 1964
Richard Ellmann Literature 1918 - 1987 1971
Aymar II Embury Art 1880 - 1966 1946
Jimmy Ernst Art 1920 - 1984 1983
John Erskine Literature 1879 - 1951 1920
Rudulph Evans Art 1878 - 1960 1926
Philip Evergood Art 1901 - 1973 1959

 

F

Name Department Life Elected
Robert Fagles Literature 1933 - 2008 1998
James T. Farrell Literature 1904 - 1979 1942
William Faulkner Literature 1897 - 1962 1939
Barry Faulkner Art 1881 - 1962 1920
Edgar Fawcett Literature 1847 - 1904 1898
Lyonel Feininger Art 1871 - 1956 1955
Edna Ferber Literature 1887 - 1968 1930
Francis Fergusson Literature 1904 - 1986 1962
Chester B. Fernald Literature 1869 - 1938 1910
Leslie Fiedler Literature 1917 - 2003 1988
Henry T. Finck Literature 1854 - 1926 1908
Vivian Fine Music 1913 - 2000 1980
John Huston Finley Literature 1863 - 1940 1908
Ross Lee Finney Music 1906 - 1997 1962
Oscar W. Firkins Literature 1864 - 1932 1912
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Literature 1879 - 1958 1931
M. F. K. Fisher Literature 1908 - 1992 1991
Willard Fiske Literature 1831 - 1904 1898
Dudley Fitts Literature 1903 - 1969 1957
Robert Fitzgerald Literature 1910 - 1985 1962
John Flanagan Art 1865 - 1952 1923
Janet Flanner Literature 1892 - 1978 1959
Jefferson Butler Fletcher Literature 1865 - 1946 1918
John Gould Fletcher Literature 1886 - 1950 1949
James Thomas Flexner Literature 1908 - 2003 1976
John F. Folinsbee Art 1892 - 1972 1953
Arthur Foote Music 1853 - 1937 1898
Shelby Foote Literature 1916 - 2005 1994
James Forbes Literature 1871 - 1938 1922
Paul Leicester Ford Literature 1865 - 1902 1898
Worthington C. Ford Literature 1858 - 1941 1908
Ben Foster Art 1852 - 1926 1908
John Jr. Fox Literature 1863 - 1919 1898
Sam Francis Art 1923 - 1994 1980
Waldo Frank Literature 1889 - 1967 1952
James Earle Fraser Art 1876 - 1953 1915
Laura Gardin Fraser Art 1889 - 1966 1931
Harold Frederic Literature 1856 - 1898 1898
James Ingo Freed Art 1930 - 2005 1994
Douglas Southall Freeman Literature 1886 - 1953 1937
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Literature 1852 - 1930 1926
Daniel Chester French Art 1850 - 1931 1898
Leo Friedlander Art 1888 - 1966 1953
Robert Frost Literature 1874 - 1963 1916
Henry B. Fuller Literature 1857 - 1929 1898
R. Buckminster Fuller Art 1895 - 1983 1963
Horace H. Furness Literature 1833 - 1912 1905
Horace H. Jr. Furness Literature 1865 - 1930 1911

 

G

Name Department Life Elected
Naum Gabo Art 1890 - 1977 1965
William Gaddis Literature 1922 - 1998 1984
John Kenneth Galbraith Literature 1908 - 2006 1966
Daniel Garber Art 1880 - 1958 1948
Hamlin Garland Literature 1860 - 1940 1898
Lee Gatch Art 1902 - 1968 1966
Walter Gay Art 1856 - 1937 1898
Charles Dana Gibson Art 1867 - 1944 1898
Franklin Henry Giddings Literature 1855 - 1931 1918
Miriam Gideon Music 1906 - 1996 1975
Cass Gilbert Art 1859 - 1934 1906
William Wallace Gilchrist Music 1846 - 1916 1898
Richard Watson Gilder Literature 1844 - 1909 1898
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Literature 1831 - 1924 1906
Brendan Gill Literature 1914 - 1997 1995
Dizzy Gillespie Music 1917 - 1993 1993
William Gillette Literature 1855 - 1937 1898
Daniel Coit Gilman Literature 1831 - 1908 1898
Lawrence Gilman Literature 1878 - 1939 1908
Allen Ginsberg Literature 1926 - 1997 1973
William J. Glackens Art 1870 - 1938 1936
Ellen Glasgow Literature 1874 - 1945 1932
Edwin Godkin Literature 1831 - 1902 1898
Parke Godwin Literature 1816 - 1904 1898
Leon Golub Art 1922 - 2004 2002
Bertram G. Goodhue Art 1869 - 1924 1915
Arthur Goodrich Literature 1878 - 1941 1927
George A. Gordon Literature 1853 - 1929 1898
Adolph Gottlieb Art 1903 - 1974 1972
Morton Gould Music 1913 - 1996 1986
Charles Grafly Art 1862 - 1929 1908
Percy Grainger Music 1882 - 1961 1950
Robert Grant Literature 1852 - 1940 1898
Morris Graves Art 1910 - 2001 1957
Nancy Graves Art 1940 - 1995 1990
Cleve Gray Art 1918 - 2004 1998
Julian Green Literature 1901 - 1998 1972
Paul Eliot Green Literature 1894 - 1981 1941
Dorothea Greenbaum Art 1893 - 1986 1968
Balcomb Greene Art 1904 - 1990 1976
Ferris Greenslet Literature 1875 - 1959 1908
Horace Gregory Literature 1898 - 1982 1964
John Gregory Art 1879 - 1958 1930
Eliot Gregory Art 1854 - 1915 1898