National Humanities Medal

146

Memorial

Jill Ker Conway

10/09/1934 – 06/01/2018

83 years

Boston

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Philip Roth

03/19/1933 – 05/22/2018

85 years

American novelist

Manhattan

Memorial

Bernard Lewis

05/31/1916 – 05/19/2018

101 years

British-American historian

Voorhees

Memorial

Richard Pipes

07/11/1923 – 05/17/2018

94 years

American historian

Cambridge

Memorial

Tom Wolfe

03/02/1930 – 05/14/2018

88 years

American author and journalist

Memorial

Russell Freedman

01/01/1929 – 03/16/2018

89 years

Memorial

John Ashbery

07/28/1927 – 09/03/2017

90 years

poet from the United States of America

Hudson

Memorial

Frank Deford

12/16/1938 – 05/28/2017

78 years

Key West

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Jean Fritz

11/16/1915 – 05/14/2017

101 years

Sleepy Hollow

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Kevin Starr

09/03/1940 – 01/14/2017

76 years

San Francisco

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William Hardy McNeill

10/31/1917 – 07/08/2016

98 years

Canadian historian and writer

Torrington

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Elie Wiesel

09/30/1928 – 07/02/2016

87 years

Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Memorial

Henry Snyder

11/03/1929 – 02/29/2016

86 years

Kensington

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E. L. Doctorow

01/06/1931 – 07/21/2015

84 years

novelist, editor, professor

Manhattan

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Marva Collins

08/31/1936 – 06/24/2015

78 years

Beaufort County

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M. H. Abrams

07/23/1912 – 04/21/2015

102 years

American literary theorist

Ithaca

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Robert Neelly Bellah

02/23/1927 – 07/30/2013

86 years

American sociologist

Oakland

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Edmund S. Morgan

01/17/1916 – 07/08/2013

97 years

New Haven

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Will D. Campbell

07/18/1924 – 06/03/2013

88 years

United States

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James M. Buchanan

10/03/1919 – 01/09/2013

93 years

American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics

Blacksburg

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Jacques Barzun

11/30/1907 – 10/25/2012

104 years

French-American historian

San Antonio

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Ted Sorensen

05/08/1928 – 10/31/2010

82 years

American lawyer and presidential adviser