Pulitzer Prize Winners
| Name | Class year | Notability | References |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry Adams (1838–1918) | College 1858; Professor | Historian; novelist | |
| John Coolidge Adams (born 1947) | College 1969; A.M. 1971 | Composer | |
| James Agee (1909–1955) | College 1932 | Novelist, screenwriter | |
| Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) | College 1912 | Poet, writer | |
| John Ashbery (born 1927) | College 1949 | Poet | |
| Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984) | College 1917 | Theater critic | |
| Bernard Bailyn (born 1922) | A.M. 1947; Ph.D. 1953; Professor 1961– | Historian | |
| Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) | College 1934 | Historian, Librarian of Congress | |
| Elliot Carter (born 1908) | College 1932 | Composer | |
| Jared Diamond (born 1937) | College 1958 | Author, biologist | |
| Susan Faludi (born 1959) | College 1981 | Author, journalist | |
| Ellen Goodman (born 1941) | Radcliffe 1963 | Boston Globe columnist | |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) | Ph.D. 1968 | Historian, author | |
| Linda Greenhouse (born 1947) | Radcliffe 1968 | New York Times Journalist | |
| David Halberstam (1934–2007) | College 1955 | Author | |
| John Harbison (born 1938) | College 1960 | Composer | |
| John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) | College 1940 | U.S. President | |
| Charles Krauthammer (born 1950) | Medical 1975 | Washington Post columnist | |
| Nicholas D. Kristof (born 1959) | College 1981 | New York Times columnist | |
| Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) | College 1926; A.M. 1927 | Poet, U.S. Poet Laureate | |
| Oliver Larkin (1896–1970) | College 1918 | Art historian | |
| Anthony Lewis (born 1927) | College 1948 | New York Times columnist | |
| J. Anthony Lukas (1933–1997) | College 1955 | journalist | |
| John Edward Mack (1929–2004) | Medical 1955 | Psychiatrist, writer, professor at Harvard University School of Medicine | |
| Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) | Law 1919 | Poet, writer | |
| Paul Moravec (born 1957) | College 1980 | Composer, professor | |
| Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) | College 1908; Ph.D. 1912; Professor | Historian | |
| Samantha Power (born 1970) | Law 1999; Professor | Writer | |
| David E. Sanger (born 1960) | College 1982 | Journalist | |
| Sydney Schanberg (born 1934) | College 1955 | Journalist | |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) | College 1938; professor | Historian, advisor to John F. Kennedy | |
| Neil Sheehan (born 1936) | College 1958 | Journalist | |
| John Updike (1932–2009) | College 1954 | Novelist, poet, short story writer, critic | |
| George Weller (1907–2002) | College 1929 | Journalist | |
| Theodore White (1915–1986) | College 1938 | Journalist | |
| Gordon S. Wood (1933) | A.M. 1959; Ph.D. 1964 | Historian, Professor |
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