New members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences include ...
In the humanities and the arts, new members include: Pulitzer Prize winners Jules Feiffer and Annie Proulx; scholar of American religious history Catherine L. Albanese; artist Chris Burden;James Chandler, a scholar of British literature; philosopher John B. Cobb; Renaissance literature scholar Margaret W. Ferguson; poet Linda Gregerson; curator Maxwell K. Hearn; novelist and screenwriter John Irving; U.S. historian and The New Yorker writer Jill Lepore; choreographerTere O'Connor; Jeffersonian scholar Peter S. Onuf; director and actor Al Pacino; short story writer George Saunders; science historian Londa Schiebinger; musician-composer Ralph Stanley; and novelist and English and comparative literature scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.
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