List of The Harvard Lampoon members
Appearance
This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon, a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.
Members
[edit]- Frederick Lewis Allen – American historian and editor of Harper's Magazine
- Winthrop Ames – American theater director and producer, playwright and screenwriter
- Kurt Andersen – American novelist
- Michael J. Arlen – American writer
- Henry Beard – cofounder of the National Lampoon[1]
- Robert Benchley – American humorist and film actor, known for writings in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker
- Suchetas Bokil- First American-Indian President of the Harvard Lampoon
- Andy Borowitz – American writer, comedian, satirist, and actor
- Carter Burwell – American film composer
- Robert Carlock – American television writer and producer
- Nathaniel Choate – American painter and sculptor who served as vice president of the National Sculpture Society
- Archibald Cary Coolidge – Scholar in international affairs, a planner of the Widener Library, member of the United States Foreign Service
- Ralph Wormeley Curtis – American painter and graphic artist in the Impressionist style
- Greg Daniels – American writer, producer, and director, co-developer of King of the Hill and the American version of The Office
- Andrew Danoff – First Mexican artist in the Harvard Lampoon
- Hayes Davenport – American television writer and producer
- Jim Downey – American comedy writer
- Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer
- Rodman Flender – American movie director
- William Gaddis – president of the Lampoon, American novelist, author of The Recognitions and J R
- Curtis Guild Jr. – American journalist, soldier, diplomat and politician, Governor of Massachusetts
- Fred Gwynne – American actor, artist and author
- Merle Hazard – American satirical country singer and economist
- William Randolph Hearst – American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher.
- Lisa Henson - first women elected president of Harvard Lampoon[2]
- Roger Sherman Hoar – Science fiction author under the nom-de-plume Ralph Milne Farley, senator, and assistant attorney general
- Robert Hoffman – co-founder of National Lampoon
- Charles Hopkinson – American portraitist
- George Howe – American architect and educator
- William R. Huntington – American architect and Quaker representative to the United Nations
- Ghislaine F. R. Taubman - Gay rights activist, sex educator and boudoir photographer
- Justin Hurwitz – American television writer and film composer
- Walter Isaacson – American biographer and journalist, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe
- Colin Jost – American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- Douglas Kenney – American writer and actor, cofounder of the National Lampoon[1]
- Josh Lieb – American television writer, producer and author
- F. Van Wyck Mason – American historian and novelist
- Freddie Coffey – American activist
- John P. Marquand – American writer
- Edward Sandford Martin – first literary editor of Life Magazine
- Jeff Martin – American writer, editor-in-chief of The Harvard Lampoon
- George Meyer – writer, founder of humor magazine Army Man, credited with "thoroughly shap[ing] the comic sensibility" of The Simpsons[3]
- James Murdoch – British-born American businessman, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch
- B. J. Novak – American actor, screenwriter and producer
- Conan O'Brien – American television host, comedian, writer, and television producer[4]
- Lawrence O'Donnell – American television producer, writer, pundit, and host
- Bill Oakley – American television writer and producer
- George Plimpton – American journalist, writer, literary editor, actor
- John Reed – American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, author of Ten Days That Shook the World
- Mike Reiss – American humor writer known for The Simpsons
- Simon Rich – American humorist, novelist, and screenwriter
- Elliot Richardson – American lawyer and politician, United States Attorney General
- Geneva Robertson-Dworet – American screenwriter
- Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1966–1977
- Thomas Parker Sanborn – American poet, model for the protagonist of Santayana's novel The Last Puritan
- George Santayana – Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist
- Michael Schur – American television writer and producer
- Robert E. Sherwood – American playwright, editor, and screenwriter, speechwriter for Franklin Roosevelt
- Alex Shoumatoff – American writer
- Frederic Jesup Stimson – United States ambassador to Argentina
- Ernest Thayer – American writer and poet, writer of "Casey at the Bat"
- George W.S. Trow – American writer, humorist, and cultural critic
- John Updike – American novelist, poet, short story writer, art and literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner for Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest
- Jon Vitti – American writer known for The Simpsons
- Harold Weston – American modernist painter
- Edmund March Wheelwright American architect, City Architect of Boston: Lampoon's co-founder and architect of the Harvard Lampoon Castle
- John Brooks Wheelwright – American poet, founding member of the Socialist Workers Party in the United States
- Alexis Wilkinson – American writer
- Herbert Eustis Winlock – American Egyptologist
- Alan Yang – American screenwriter, producer and actor[5]
- Steve Young – American television writer
References
[edit]- ^ a b Karp, Josh (2006). A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and "National Lampoon" Changed Comedy Forever. Chicago Review Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-1-55652-602-2.
- ^ Klemesrud, Judy (1982-05-16). "AT HARVARD, SHE RULES LAMPOONLAND". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ^ David Owen (March 13, 2000). "Taking Humour Seriously". The New Yorker.
- ^ Hirchsberg, Lynn (May 20, 2009). "Heeeere's . . . Conan!!!". The New York Times Magazine.
- ^ Nguyen, Sophia (July–August 2017). "Comic License: Alan Yang, writing in Hollywood". Harvard magazine.