''The Harvard Advocate'', the art and

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, is the oldest continuously published college art and literary magazine in the

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. The magazine (published then in

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format) was founded by Charles S. Gage and William G. Peckham in 1866 and, except for a hiatus during the last years of

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, has published continuously since then. In 1916, ''

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'' published a commemoration of the ''Advocates fiftieth anniversary. Fifty years after that,

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wrote in ''

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'' that "In the world of the college – where every generation is born, grows old and dies in four years – it is rare for an institution to survive a decade, much less a century. Yet the Harvard Advocate, the venerable undergraduate literary magazine, celebrated its centennial this month." Its current offices are a two-story wood-frame house at 21 South Street, near

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and the University campus. Today, the ''Harvard Advocate'' publishes quarterly. Its mission is to "publish the best art, fiction, poetry and prose the Harvard undergraduate community has to offer." It also accepts submissions from professional writers and artists beyond the Harvard community.

History

Founding and early years

When the ''Advocate'' was founded, it adopted the motto ''Dulce est Periculum'' (Danger is Sweet) which had been used by an earlier

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

newspaper, the ''Collegian''. The magazine originally avoided controversial topics, lest it be shut down by university authorities; by the time the editors were making the then-radical demand for

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at Harvard, the magazine had attracted the support of

James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell (; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that r ...

and Oliver Wendell Holmes, and its life was less precarious. The founding in 1873 of ''

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'' newspaper (originally the ''Magenta''), and in 1876, of the ''

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'' humor magazine, led the ''Advocate'' by the 1880s to devote itself to essays, fiction, and poetry. Over the years, the undergraduate editors of and contributors to the ''Advocate'' have gone on to later fame, literary and otherwise.

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edited the magazine in 1880.

Edwin Arlington Robinson Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. Early life Robi ...

Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance compa ...

, E. E. Cummings, and T. S. Eliot all published their undergraduate poetry in the ''Advocate.'' Before World War II, undergraduates who worked on the ''Advocate'' included

Malcolm Cowley Malcolm Cowley (August 24, 1898 – March 27, 1989) was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, ''Blue Juniata'' (1929), his lyrical memoir, ''Exile's Return' ...

James Agee James Rufus Agee ( ; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for ''Time Magazine'', he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. ...

, Robert Fitzgerald,

Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first America ...

, James Laughlin (who got into trouble with local police for publishing a racy story by

Henry Miller Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American novelist. He broke with existing literary forms and developed a new type of semi- autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical re ...

) and

Norman Mailer Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Maile ...

Post World War II

The ''Advocate'' suspended publication during the years of

, and resumed publication with its April 1947 issue. Editors after the war included

Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is an American political activist, and former United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the '' Pen ...

. The post-war ''Advocate'' published undergraduate and/or graduate work by

Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's work, composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentle ...

, Robert Bly,

John Ashbery John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in ...

Frank O'Hara Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure i ...

, John Hawkes,

Harold Brodkey Harold Brodkey (October 25, 1930 – January 26, 1996), born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist. Life Brodkey was the second child born in Staunton, Illinois, to Max Weintraub and Celia Glazer Weintraub (1899 ...

, Kenneth Koch and Jonathan Kozol as well as illustrations by

Edward Gorey Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers. Hi ...

. Contributors from outside Harvard during this time included

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

William Carlos Williams William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pedia ...

, and Archibald MacLeish. Other contributors after World War II included

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Cecile Rich ( ; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the ...

(the first woman to publish regularly in the magazine), Howard Nemerov,

Marianne Moore Marianne Craig Moore (November 15, 1887 – February 5, 1972) was an American modernist poet, critic, translator, and editor. Her poetry is noted for formal innovation, precise diction, irony, and wit. Early life Moore was born in Kirkwood ...

Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the '' Mayflower''. His family, past and present, were important subjects ...

Tom Wolfe Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)Some sources say 1931; ''The New York Times'' and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and was an American author and journalist widely ...

James Atlas James Robert Atlas (March 22, 1949 – September 4, 2019) was a writer, especially of biographies, as well as a publisher. He was the president of Atlas & Company and founding editor of the Penguin Lives Series. Early life and education Atlas wa ...

, and Sallie Bingham. Some recent alumni of note include novelists Louis Begley, Peter Gadol, Lev Grossman,

Benjamin Kunkel Benjamin Kunkel (born December 14, 1972 in Colorado) is an American novelist and political economist. He co-founded and is a co-editor of the journal '' n+1.'' His novel, ''Indecision'', was published in 2005. Background and education Kunkel gre ...

, and

Francine Prose Francine Prose (born April 1, 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and critic. She is a visiting professor of literature at Bard College, and was formerly president of PEN American Center. Life and career Born in Brookl ...

, poets Carl Phillips and

Frederick Seidel Frederick Seidel (born February 19, 1936) is an American poet. Biography Seidel was born to a family of Russian Jewish descent in St. Louis, Missouri in 1936. His family owned Seidel Coal and Coke, which supplied coal to the brewing industry in ...

, biographer and critic

Jean Strouse Jean Strouse (born 1945) is an American biographer, cultural administrator, and critic. She is best known for her biographies of diarist Alice James and financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Strouse was an editorial assistant at ''The New York Review o ...

, journalists Elif Batuman and

Timothy Noah Timothy Robert Noah (born 1958), an American journalist and author, is a staff writer at ''The New Republic.'' Previously he was labor policy editor for '' Politico'', a contributing writer at MSNBC.com, a senior editor of '' The New Republic'' a ...

, literary scholar Peter Brooks, editors

Jonathan Galassi Jonathan Galassi (born 1949 in Seattle, Washington) has served as the president and publisher of ''Farrar, Straus and Giroux'' and is currently the Chairman and Executive Editor. Early life Galassi was born in Seattle (his father worked as an ...

and Susan Morrison, businessmen

Steve Ballmer Steven Anthony Ballmer (; March 24, 1956) is an American business magnate and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball As ...

and Thomas A. Stewart, filmmaker

Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker. His films include ''Days of Heaven'' (1978), '' The Thin Red Line'' (1998), for which he received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay ...

, and writer and video game developer Austin Grossman. ''First Flowering: The Best of the Harvard Advocate, 1866–1976'', an anthology of selections from the magazine edited by

Richard Smoley Richard Smoley is an author and philosopher focusing on the world's mystical and esoteric teachings, particularly those of Western civilization. Early life and education Smoley was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1956. He attended the Taft Sch ...

, was published by

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in 1977. In 1986, ''The Harvard Advocate Anniversary Anthology'' was published in conjunction with the 120th year of the magazine's publication and Harvard's 350th anniversary. The anthology reproduced actual pages and artwork published in the magazine, introducing each literary era with a brief historical overview. The Advocate received a degree of national press attention following a controversial 2000 interview with writer

Dave Eggers Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He wrote the 2000 best-selling memoir ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. Eggers is also the founder of ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', a lite ...

Notable past members

Academics and criticism

* Svetlana Alpers, art historian, critic and professor at

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* Elif Batuman, author, academic, critic * Amy Boesky, writer, professor of English at

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classified ...

* Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic * John Mason Brown, drama critic, author *

Richard Bulliet Richard W. Bulliet (born 1940) is a professor of history at Columbia University who specializes in the history of Islamic society and institutions, the history of technology, and the history of the role of animals in human society. Early life ...

, professor of history at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Stephanie Burt Stephanie Burt (born 1971) is a literary critic and poet who is Professor of English at Harvard University. '' The New York Times'' has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of ergeneration". Burt grew up around Washington, D.C. ...

, literary critic, poet, professor at

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Charles Townsend Copeland Charles Townsend Copeland (April 27, 1860 – July 24, 1952) was a professor, poet, and writer. He graduated from Harvard University and spent much of his time as a mentor at Harvard, where he served in several posts, including Boylston Profess ...

, Harvard professor of English literature *

Holland Cotter Holland Cotter is an art critic with ''The New York Times''. In 2009, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Life and work Cotter was born in Connecticut and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his A.B. from Harvard College in 1970, w ...

, art critic with ''The New York Times'', winner of the

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, poet, literary critic, editor at ''

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'' *

Jonathan Culler Jonathan Culler (born 1944) is an American literary critic. He was Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His published works are in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and literary crit ...

, literary critic, professor of English at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

Thomas F. Glick Thomas F. Glick (born January 28, 1939) is an American academic who taught in the departments of history and gastronomy at Boston University from 1972 to 2012. He served as the history department's chairperson from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1994 ...

, professor of history at

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* Mark Greif, critic, co-founder of the literary journal ''

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'' *

Allen Grossman Allen R. Grossman (January 7, 1932 – June 27, 2014) was a noted American poet, critic and professor. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1932,Bruce Weber (June 29, 2014)Allen Grossman, A Poet's Poet, and Scholar, dies at 82 The New ...

, poet, critic, professor of humanities at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

* Lev Grossman, novelist, journalist, book critic for ''Time Magazine'' *

Rachel Hadas Rachel Hadas (born November 8, 1948) is an American poet, teacher, essayist, and translator. Her most recent essay collection is ''Piece by Piece: Selected Prose'' (Paul Dry Books, 2021), and her most recent poetry collection is ''Love and Dread'' ...

, poet, professor of English at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

* Leslie Kirwan, government official, Harvard Dean for Finance and Administration *

George Lyman Kittredge George Lyman Kittredge (February 28, 1860 – July 23, 1941) was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved ...

, literary critic, Harvard professor of English literature * Susan Manning, dance historian, professor of English and theatre at

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

James Matisoff James Alan Matisoff ( zh, , t=馬蒂索夫, s=马蒂索夫, p=Mǎdìsuǒfū or zh, , t=馬提索夫, s=马提索夫, p=Mǎtísuǒfū; born July 14, 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a ...

, professor of linguistics,

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* Margaret Mills, folklorist, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures at

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* Christopher Minkowski, professor of Sanskrit at the

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* Stephen Minot, novelist * William Vaughn Moody, literary critic, Harvard English professor * Laurie L. Patton, author, poet, dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of religion at

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

* Harriet Ritvo, historian, professor of history at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of th ...

* Kenji Yoshino, professor of constitutional law at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

Arthur Waldron Arthur Waldron (born December 13, 1948) is an American historian. Since 1997, Waldron has been the Lauder Professor of International Relations in the department of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He works chiefly on Asia, China in parti ...

, professor of international relations at the

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Art, architecture, and engineering

* Miles Coolidge, photographer, art educator * Ellen Harvey, visual artist *

Antoinette LaFarge Antoinette LaFarge is a new media artist and writer known for her work with mixed-reality performance and projects exploring the conjunction of visual art and fiction. Biography LaFarge received her M.F.A. degree in Computer Art from the School of ...

, artist, writer, and professor of art at the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...

Peter Soriano Peter Soriano (born 1959) is a contemporary artist and sculptor. His works are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Portland Museum of Art and the Colby College Museum of Art in Maine, the Morgan Library & Museum i ...

, artist and sculptor

Business and philanthropy

, businessman, former CEO of

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...

, president and publisher of

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar. FSG is known for publishing literary books, and its authors have won numerous awards, including Pulitzer ...

Thomas W. Lamont Thomas William Lamont Jr. (September 30, 1870 – February 2, 1948) was an American banker. Early life Lamont was born in Claverack, New York. His parents were Thomas Lamont, a Methodist minister, and Caroline Deuel Jayne. Since his father was ...

, financier and philanthropist *

Michael Lynton Michael Mark Lynton (born January 1, 1960) is a businessman and current chairman of Snap Inc. He previously served as chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2017, Lynton stepped down as CEO of Sony Entertainment to becom ...

, businessman, current CEO of

Sony Pictures Entertainment Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment studio Conglomerate (company), conglom ...

Jeffrey Rayport Jeffrey F. Rayport is an academic, author, consultant, and founder and chairman of Marketspace LLC, a strategic advisory practice that works with leading companies to reinvent how they interact with and relate to customers. Marketspace was a unit o ...

, consultant author, businessman * Andrew Wylie, literary agent, founder of The Wylie Agency

Editing and translation

Witter Bynner Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures the ...

, poet, translator * John Keene, writer and translator *

Maxwell Perkins William Maxwell Evarts "Max" Perkins (September 20, 1884 – June 17, 1947) was an American book editor, best remembered for discovering authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Thomas Wolfe. Early life and ...

, editor for

Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century f ...

, F. Scott Fitzgerald and

Thomas Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist of the early 20th century. Wolfe wrote four lengthy novels as well as many short stories, dramatic works, and novellas. He is known for mixing highly origi ...

Richard Sieburth Richard Sieburth (born 1949) is Professor Emeritus of French Literature, Thought and Culture and Comparative Literature at New York University (NYU).

, translator, essayist, editor, professor of French and comparative literature at

Peter Theroux Peter Christopher Sebastian Theroux (born 1956) is an American translator and writer. The younger brother of writers Alexander Theroux and Paul Theroux, during college Peter studied for a year at the University of Cairo. He became interested in Ar ...

, translator

Fiction

Conrad Aiken Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer and poet, honored with a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, and was United States Poet Laureate from 1950 to 1952. His published works include poetry, short ...

, novelist and poet * Emily Barton, novelist, critic, professor of English at

Smith College Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith and opened in 1875. It is the largest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite women's coll ...

* William Bayer, novelist, screenwriter * Louis Begley, novelist * Caleb Crain, novelist and critic *

Nicholas Delbanco Nicholas Delbanco (born 1942) is an American writer. Life and career Delbanco was born in London, England, the son of German Jewish parents Barbara (née Bernstein) and Kurt Delbanco, a businessman, art dealer, and sculptor. He was educated at H ...

, novelist, professor at

Bennington College Bennington College is a private liberal arts college in Bennington, Vermont. Founded in 1932 as a women's college, it became co-educational in 1969. It claims to be the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in ...

* Sean Desmond, writer of '' Adams Fall'', the basis for the 2002 film ''Abandon'' * Nell Freudenberger, novelist, travel writer * Peter Gadol, novelist * Allegra Goodman, novelist *

Chad Harbach Chad Harbach (born 1975) is an American writer. An editor at the journal '' n + 1'', he is the author of the 2011 novel '' The Art of Fielding''. Early life and education Harbach grew up in Racine, Wisconsin. His father was an accountant and his ...

, novelist, co-founder of literary journal ''

'' *

Julie Hilden Julie Cope Hilden (April 19, 1968 - March 17, 2018) was an American novelist and lawyer. Biography Hilden grew up in Hawaii and New Jersey. She graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Harvard College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M. ...

, novelist and lawyer *

Ann Hodgman Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles. Biography Ann Hodgman was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard Univers ...

, author of children's books *

Sara Houghteling Sara Houghteling (born 1977) is an American novelist and educator. Biography She was born in 1977 and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1999. She received her Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Michigan in ...

, novelist and educator * Angela Hur, novelist *

, novelist, co-founder of literary journal ''

'' * Oliver LaFarge, writer, anthropologist,

Pulitzer prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made ...

winner *

, writer *

, writer

Film, theater, television, and entertainment

* Robert Anderson, playwright * William Bayer, novelist and screenwriter * Harry Brown, poet, novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter * Chris Gerolmo, screenwriter, director * Austin Grossman, author and game designer *

Maeve Kinkead Maeve Kinkead (born May 31, 1946) is an American soap opera actress, writer and poet. Acting After numerous roles on stage, Kinkead's first major role was as Angie Perrini on the soap '' Another World'' (1975–80). Kinkead's longest runnin ...

, soap opera actress *

Franklin Leonard Franklin Leonard is an American film executive best known for founding The Black List, a yearly publication featuring Hollywood's most popular unproduced screenplays. After working as a development executive for Overbrook Entertainment and Uni ...

, co-founder of The Black List survey *

Karin Lewicki Karin Lewicki is an internationally noted American writer. She started in television as Winnie Holzman's assistant on ''Once and Again'', and has a screenplay oThe Black List ''Haley Means Unplugged''. Her credits include ''Dawson's Creek'' and ...

, screenwriter * Percy MacKaye, dramatist and poet *

, filmmaker * Julie Mallozzi, documentary filmmaker, producer * Lawrence Osgood, playwright and essayist * Justin Rice, musician and actor *

Richard E. Robbins Richard E. Robbins is an American filmmaker and documentary maker, who has produced and directed several documentaries for ABC and PBS. The most notable is '' Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience'', which puts forward the perspect ...

, documentarian *

Adam Stein Adam Stein is an American film director and screenwriter working in Los Angeles, California. Stein graduated from Harvard University and the directing program at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He co-directed the Disney live-action movie ''Ki ...

, film director, writer and editor * James Toback, filmmaker *

Ali Sethi Ali Aziz Sethi (Urdu/; ; born July 2, 1984) is a Pakistani singer, songwriter, composer, and author. Sethi rose to prominence with his debut novel, '' The Wish Maker'' (2009). In 2012, Sethi began focusing on his musical career and made his film ...

, singer, songwriter and writer

Journalism and non-fiction writing

* Emily Benedek, journalist and author *

Jacob Brackman Jacob Brackman (born 1943) is an American writer, journalist, and musical lyricist. After graduating from Harvard University in 1965, he went to work for ''Newsweek'' as a journalist. He remained there for six months and was then hired by ''The ...

, journalist, musical lyricist * Christopher Caldwell, journalist, senior editor at ''

The Weekly Standard ''The Weekly Standard'' was an American neoconservative political magazine of news, analysis and commentary, published 48 times per year. Originally edited by founders Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, the ''Standard'' had been described as a "re ...

'' *

Amy Davidson Amy Davidson is an American actress. She is known for playing Kerry Hennessy in the ABC sitcom ''8 Simple Rules''. Early life and education Born in Phoenix, Davidson was raised by educators. Her father was a principal at ''El Mirage'' Element ...

, senior editor at ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' * Ben Downing, cultural historian * William Emerson, journalist, editor-in-chief at the ''

Saturday Evening Post ''The Saturday Evening Post'' is an American magazine, currently published six times a year. It was issued weekly under this title from 1897 until 1963, then every two weeks until 1969. From the 1920s to the 1960s, it was one of the most widely ...

'' * Hermann Hagedorn, biographer * Mark Helprin, novelist, journalist, conservative commentator *

Catherine Herridge Catherine Herridge (born May 18, 1964) is a CBS News senior investigative correspondent currently based in Washington D.C. She began her role at CBS in November 2019 after leaving her role as Chief Intelligence correspondent for Fox News Channel. ...

, chief intelligence correspondent for the

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ...

H.V. Kaltenborn Hans von Kaltenborn (July 9, 1878June 14, 1965), generally known as H. V. Kaltenborn, was an American radio commentator. He was heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928. He was known for his highly precise d ...

, radio broadcaster at

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

and CBS *

Perri Klass Perri Klass (born 1958) is an American pediatrician and writer who has published extensively about her medical training and pediatric practice. Among her subjects have been the issues of women in medicine, relationships between doctors and patient ...

, pediatrician and writer * David Laskin, writer, travel journalist * Jonathan Larsen, former editor-in-chief at ''

The Village Voice ''The Village Voice'' is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer, the ''Voice'' began as a platform for the cr ...

'' * Sarah Manguso, memoirist, novelist, and poet * Liz Marlantes, ABC News Correspondent *

Lance Morrow Lance Morrow (born September 21, 1939, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American essayist and writer, chiefly for '' Time'' magazine, as well as the author of several books. He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was ...

, essayist and writer at ''

Time Magazine ''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on Ma ...

'' *

, journalist and author, past senior editor of ''

'' *

Katha Pollitt Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abo ...

, feminist poet, essayist and critic * John Reed, journalist, poet, social activist * Tom Reiss, author, historian, journalist, winner of the

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished biography, autobiography or memoir by an American author o ...

* Charlie Savage, newspaper reporter with ''The New York Times'', recipient of the

2007 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 2007 were announced on April 16, 2007.The Pulitzer Prize Winners for 2007
from th ...

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a s ...

, historian, writer *

Neil Sheehan Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan (October 27, 1936 – January 7, 2021) was an American journalist. As a reporter for ''The New York Times'' in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified '' Pentagon Papers'' from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles rev ...

, journalist, received the

Pentagon Papers The ''Pentagon Papers'', officially titled ''Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force'', is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 ...

from

, writer on esotericism * Thomas A. Stewart, journalist, editor, director of National Center for the Middle Market at the Fisher College of Business at

, biographer * Melanie Thernstrom, author, contributing writer at ''

The New York Times Magazine ''The New York Times Magazine'' is an American Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times''. It features articles longer than those typically in the newspaper and has attracted many notable contributors. ...

Law and politics

Daniel Baer Daniel Brooks Baer (born January 6, 1977) is an American politician and former diplomat from Colorado. Baer served in the Obama administration's State Department, first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human ...

United States Ambassador Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the country's diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S ...

for the

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, pro ...

* Thomas C. Foley, American diplomat, businessman *

Learned Hand Billings Learned Hand ( ; January 27, 1872 – August 18, 1961) was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 an ...

, judicial philosopher, judge in the

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York and Vermont. The court has appellate ju ...

* Todd M. Hughes, United States Circuit Judge * Peter Jaszi, author, expert on copyright law * Peter Junger, internet activist * Grover Norquist, conservative political advocate *

, President of the United States * Barbara Underwood, New York Solicitor General * Charles Proctor Sifton, United States federal judge * Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at

Poetry

* Judith Baumel, poet *

April Bernard April Bernard (born 1956) is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at '' Vanity Fair'', '' Premiere'', and ''Manhattan, inc''. In the early 1990s, sh ...

, poet *

e.e. cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

, poet * T.S. Eliot, poet *

Arthur Davison Ficke Arthur Davison Ficke (November 10, 1883 – November 30, 1945) was an American poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art. Ficke had a national reputation as "a poet's poet", and "one of America's most expert sonneteers". Under the alias Anne ...

, poet *

Sidney Goldfarb Sidney Goldfarb (born November 23, 1942 in Peabody, Massachusetts) is a Harvard College-educated American poet and experimental playwright, whose work continues the tradition of poetic theater. Goldfarb co-founded the acclaimed Creative Writin ...

, poet * Alice Goodman, poet and librettist *

, poet, editor, 14th

United States poet laureate The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States. During their term, the poet laureate seeks to raise the national cons ...

Matthea Harvey Matthea Harvey (born September 3, 1973) is a contemporary American poet, writer and professor. She has published four collections of poetry. The most recent of these, ''If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?'', a collection of poetry and images, ...

, poet * Robert Hillyer, poet, Harvard English professor * Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, cultural critic, professor of English at the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven pro ...

Joyelle McSweeney Joyelle McSweeney (first name meaning: Rejoicing) (born 1976) is a poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include ''Toxicon & Arachne'' (2021) from Nightboat Books, ''The Necropastoral: Poetry, ...

, poet, critic, professor at

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main c ...

* Elise Paschen, editor, poet, co-founder of '' Poetry in Motion'' * Carl Phillips, writer, poet, professor of English and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis *

, poet *

, poet, three time

winner *

Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The ''Norton Anthology of Poetry'' and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University. Life Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was ...

, poet, professor in Writing Seminars at

, co-editor of ''

The Norton Anthology of Poetry ''The Norton Anthology of Poetry'' is one of several literary anthologies published by W.W. Norton and Company. It is intended for classroom use, and has sold well. The anthology appeared in 1970 and is in its sixth edition, a volume which inclu ...

'' *

, poet *

, poet * John Hall Wheelock, poet, editor at

Scribners Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Ra ...

* John Brooks Wheelwright, poet *

, poet, Harvard English Professorhttps://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/Reader-Resources-Advice-from-the-Lights.pdf

Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Stuart Ellenberg (born October 30, 1971) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research involves arithmetic geometry. He is also an author of both fiction and non-ficti ...

, mathematician, professor at

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Sarah Hrdy (née Blaffer; born July 11, 1946) is an American anthropologist and primatologist who has made major contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. She is considered "a highly recognized pioneer in modernizing our under ...

, anthropologist and primatologist * Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and author * Wendell Lim, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at

University of California, San Francisco The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco, California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It ...

* Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the

* James Propp, professor of mathematics at

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts public ...

Past presidentsHarvard Advocate Archives, 21 South Street, Cambridge MA. Includes copies of all past issues, with mastheads listing memberships.

1868: M Williams 1869: M.S. Severance 1870: R. Wolcott 1871: W.S. Bigelow 1872: P.C. Severance 1873: J. Lyman 1874: W.R. Tyler 1875: C.F. Canfield 1876: A.A. Wheeler 1877:

George Edward Woodberry George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.''The Book Buyer'', Volume 8, p.7, (1892) Charles Scribner's Sons, New Yor/ref> Biography Education Woodberry was born in Bev ...

1878: L. Hancock, E.W. Morse 1879: E. Hale 1880:

Albert Bushnell Hart Albert Bushnell Hart (July 1, 1854 – July 16, 1943) was an American historian, writer, and editor based at Harvard University. One of the first generation of professionally trained historians in the United States, a prolific author and editor ...

, H. Townsend 1881: C. Sprague 1883: C.H. Grandgent 1884: C.R. Clapp 1885: G.R. Nutter 1886: T.T. Baldwin 1887: Winthrop Wetherbee 1888: L. McK Garrison 1889: J.H. Sears 1890: G.P. Wardner 1891: S.C. Brackett 1892: John Corbin 1893:

1894: C.W. Slope 1895: C. M. Flandrau, J Mack Jr. 1896: J.A. Gade 1897: C.H. Hovey 1898: R. Putter 1899: John A. Macy 1900:

William R. Castle, Jr. William Richards Castle Jr. (June 19, 1878 – October 13, 1963) was an American educator and diplomat. He rose rapidly to the highest levels of the United States Department of State and took a strong interest in Pacific issues, in part becau ...

1901:

1902: J.C. Grew 1903: Richard Washburn Child 1904: A.D. Fickle 1905:

Arthur W. Page Arthur Wilson Page (September 10, 1883 – September 5, 1960) was a vice president and director of AT&T from 1927 to 1947. He is sometimes referred to as "the father of corporate public relations" for his work at AT&T. The company was experiencing r ...

1906: R.W. Beach 1907: J.L. Price 1908: Edward B. Sheldon 1909: A Whitman, F. Schenck 1910: W.G. Tinckom-Fernandez 1911: C.P. Aiken 1912: G.W. Gray 1913: Philip James Roosevelt 1914: P.W. Thayer 1915: H. Jackson Jr. 1916: H. Amory 1917: J.D. Parson 1918: Robert Nathan Cram, William Allis Norris, E. Whittlesey 1919: Charles MacVeagh Jr., Lloyd Kirkham Garrison, J.R. Parsons 1920: J.G. King Jr. 1921: Steddard Benham Colby 1922: W. Whitman 1923: M.A. Best 1924: Oliver LaFarge 1925: John Finley Jr. 1926: Walter Dumaux Edmonds Jr. 1927: Kendall Foss 1928: C.C. Abbott 1929: Robeson Bailey 1930: T. Hall Jr. 1931: Wilson Mumford Wing 1932: James Rufus Agee 1933: Robert Hatch 1934: C.L. Sulzberger 1935: Hugh M. Wade 1936: J.J. Slocum, Julian S. Bach 1937: F. Corning Kenly Jr. 1938: Alvah W. Sulloway 1939: Samuel N. Hinckly 1940: Thornton Frederick Bradshaw 1941: Westmore Wileox III 1944: Kingsley Ervin Jr. 1947: Donald B. Watt Jr. 1948: A.G. Haas 1949: Lloyd Staube Gilmour Jr. 1950: Donald Andrew Hall Jr.,

1951: Harvey Slom Ginsberg 1952: George A. Kelly 1953: Samuel D. Stewart 1954:

1955: Eugene S. Dodd 1956: John Ratte 1957: A. Whitney Ellsworth 1958: Peter P. Brooks 1959: E.J. Bresson 1960: E. deBresson 1961: B.A. Melnick 1962: J. Urrutia 1963: Terence Cogley 1964: Gerald P. Hillman 1965: Stuart A. Davis 1966: Stuart A. Davis 1967: Peter Shaw 1968: Thomas A. Stewart 1969: James R. Atlas 1970:

1971: Chris Ma 1972: Gregory Moore 1973: R. Paul 1974: M. Leib 1975: Paul K. Rowe 1976: Douglas A. McIntyre 1977: John McCullough 1978: Richard V. Nalley 1979: Sarah V. Chace 1980: C. Gerard 1981: Sandra DeJong 1982: L. Murphy 1983: D. Longobardi 1984: S. Harney 1985: Peter D. Gadol 1986: Vivian S.M. Wang 1988: W. Caleb Crain 1989: M. Charters 1990: Rebecca Zorach 1991: Elizabeth Elsas 1992: Peter Nohrnberg 1993: Kelli Rae Patton 1994: Alp Aker 1995: Priya Aiyar 1996: C. You 1997: Daley C. Haggar 1998: Etienne Benson 1999: Saadi Soudavar 2000: Caroline Whitbeck 2001: Brooke Lampley 2002: Cody Carvel 2003: Walt Hunter 2004: Andrews Little 2005: Steven R. Williams 2006: Casey N. Cep 2007: Gregory R. Scruggs 2008: Alexandra Hays 2009: Sanders I. Bernstein 2010: Dana Kase 2011: Emily Chertoff 2012: Alexander J.B. Wells 2013: Tyler Richard 2014: Julian Lucas 2015: Kiara Barrow 2016: Henry Shah 2017: Lily Scherlis 2018: Natasha Lasky 2019: Sabrina Helen Li 2020: Owen Torrey 2021: Madi Howard 2022: Albert B. Zhang 2023: Annika Inampudi

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