American Academy of Arts and Letters
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= AAAL
URL : http://www.artsandletters.org/
| Top | Member : Art - Literature - Music - Honorary |
- History
- 1904 The first seven members - Litterature : Edmund Clarence Stedman(President) / William Dean Howells / John Hay / Mark Twain Art : Augustus Saint-Gaudens / John La Farge Music : Edward MacDowell
- 1916 Incorporated by Act of Congress - (50)
- 1865 Founded American Social Science Association
- 1898 Founded National Institute of Arts and Letters(NIAL) - (250)
- 1904 Founded American Academy of Arts and Letters（AAAL）
- 1976 Founded American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters（AAIAL） - Integrated National Institute of Arts and Letters & American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1993 Reorganized American Academy of Arts and Letters（AAAL）
- President
- 1st 1908-1920 William Dean Howells
- 2nd 1920-1928 William Milligan Sloane
- 3rd 1928-1941 Nicholas Murray Butler
- 4th 1941-1948 Walter Damrosch
- 5th 1948-1953 Paul Manship(Sculptor)
- 6th 1953-1956 Archibald MacLeish
- 7th 1956-1959 Mark Van Doren
- 8th 1960-1962 Douglas Moore
- 9th 1963-1965 Lewis Mumford
- 10th 1966-1967 Allan Nevins
- 11th 1967-1971 George F. Kennan
- 12th 1972-1975 Jacques Barzun
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 13th 1976-1978 Jacques Barzun
- 14th 1978-1981 Barbara W. Tuchman
- 15th 1981-1984 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
- 16th 1984-1987 John Kenneth Galbraith
- 17th 1987-1990 Hortense Calisher
- 18th 1990-1993 Hugo Weisgall
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 19th 1993-1997 Kevin Roche
- 20th 1997-2000 Louis Auchincloss
- 21st 2000-2003 Ned Rorem
- 22nd 2003-2006 Philip Pearlstein
- 23rd 2006-2009 Ezra Laderman
- 24th 2009-2012 J. D. McClatchy
- 25th 2012-2015 Henry N. Cobb
- 26th 2015-2018 Yehudi Wyner
- 27th 2018- Billie Tsien
