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Just to check on the wording, the thesis defended, research written, classes taken types of PhDs do not count? It has to be honorary?
Beth wrote: "Just to check on the wording, the thesis defended, research written, classes taken types of PhDs do not count? It has to be honorary?"Correct, honorary doctrates is the qualifying point.
This article indicates that Al Franken was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard in 2002 https://books.google.com/books?id=e7O...Will that work?
Ed wrote: "This article indicates that Al Franken was awarded an honorary degree from Harvard in 2002 https://books.google.com/books?id=e7O......"If you can find that from somewhere other than the comedian's mouth we'll take it.
Karen Michele wrote: "Here is one I found:Timothy Egan
https://news.boisestate.edu/update/20..."
Got it!
Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com... and no Al Franken...but many other writers folks may want to check out.
Ed wrote: "Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com... and no Al Franken...bu..."Yes, I'm sure he was making a joke.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Ed wrote: "Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com... and no Al F..."I thought he was just joking about the TYPE of honorary degree.... I thought any of the celebrity speakers at commencement speeches...especially Harvard, were given honorary degrees. But I have been proven wrong.
The University of Iowa conferred honorary degrees to these authors:Bill Bryson
Tom Brokaw
Orhan Pamuk.
https://uiowa.edu/honorarydegrees/lis...
Connie wrote: "The University of Iowa conferred honorary degrees to authors Bill Bryson, Tom Brokaw, and Orhan Pamuk."Link, please.
There are some interesting authors listed on the University of Connecticut listing of honorary degrees.Could I get approval for David McCullough (1999) please?
http://commencement.uconn.edu/history...
Connie wrote: "Here's some for the University of Connecticut--click on the decade after you get to the website.http://commencement.uconn.edu/history...
Here are some authors mentioned:
Philip ..."
If you will provide a link to the award for the author, it will make our job much easier.
Connie wrote: "The University of Iowa conferred honorary degrees to these authors:Bill Bryson
Tom Brokaw
Orhan Pamuk.
https://uiowa.edu/honorarydegrees/lis..."
got these.
Walter Mosleyone from Tulane Uni:
http://www2.tulane.edu/news/releases/...
one from CCNY:
https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/langst...
(it's noted within this press release at being given at the 2004 commencement, which seems to be before they put press releases on the website)
Ed wrote: "Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com... and no Al Franken...bu..."From the Harvard link:
Isabel Allende
2014 Isabel Allende, Michael Bloomberg, President George H.W. Bush, Aretha Franklin, Patricia King, Peter H. Raven, Seymour Slive, Joseph E. Stiglitz
Margaret Atwood
2004 Kofi Atta Annan, Margaret Atwood, John Michael Bishop, Robert Lee Carter, Suzanne Farrell, Daniel Kahneman, Frank Kermode, Shirley M. Tilghman, E.O. Wilson
I don't plan on reading him, but thought he got a HonDoc from my Uni - so I looked up Saul Bellowhttps://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/...
The complete list is here on pg 428. He had multiples, including Boston Uni, Harvard, McGill.... etc
->and after all that, I was incorrect in my remembering!
Karen Michele wrote: "Ed wrote: "Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com... and no Al F..."So you want to claim Allende and Atwood?
Valerie wrote: "I don't plan on reading him, but thought he got a HonDoc from my Uni - so I looked up Saul Bellowhttps://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/...
The complete list is here on pg 428. He..."
Do you have another link? I would prefer not to have to download pdfs.
Valerie wrote: "Haruki Murakami:multiples, from Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_..."
Got him.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Ed wrote: "Alas.....I found the list with all the Harvard honorary degree recipients since the founding of the university https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com......"Yes, please:)
Karen Michele wrote: "Here's a more specific link for Wally Lamb:https://today.uconn.edu/2013/03/uconn..."
And I want to claim Wally Lamb:)
Karen Michele wrote: "Karen Michele wrote: "Here's a more specific link for Wally Lamb:https://today.uconn.edu/2013/03/uconn..."
And I want to cla..."
Yes, sorry. I added him to the list.
Valerie wrote: "Relatively hot off the press:Louise Penny:
http://newsroom.carleton.ca/2017/06/1..."
Got her! (Karen made me realize I did only half the job!)
also Walter Mosley
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote: "I don't plan on reading him, but thought he got a HonDoc from my Uni - so I looked up Saul Bellowhttps://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/...
The complete list is he..."
This is for the Boston one:
https://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/200...
Valerie wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Valerie wrote: "I don't plan on reading him, but thought he got a HonDoc from my Uni - so I looked up Saul Bellowhttps://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/rlg/......"
Great - who do you want there?
Just so everyone knows - the requests are being added to a list that goes into the database so that it will know to allow for the task and/or combos for the task.
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "Here's some for the University of Connecticut--click on the decade after you get to the website.http://commencement.uconn.edu/history...
Here are some authors men..."
I'm sorry, Elizabeth. I was trying to share the list of authors with the others in the group, not thinking that you would have to approve them all. I edited my post to the one author whose book is on my shelf, David McCullough.
Joyce Carol Oates2006: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Holyoke College
and
2011: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_C...
Connie wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "Here's some for the University of Connecticut--click on the decade after you get to the website.http://commencement.uconn.edu/history......"
No problem, Connie. I was getting a bit cranky besides.
McCullough is added! (What are you going to read by him? I enjoyed his Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt)
Denise wrote: "Joyce Carol Oates2006: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Mount Holyoke College
and
2011: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce..."
Got her - going to be good combos for her too!
Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Connie wrote: "Here's some for the University of Connecticut--click on the decade after you get to the website.http://commencement.uconn.edu/history......"
I have his book, 1776, to read. He's one of my husband's favorite authors, and he enjoyed the Teddy Roosevelt book too.
I'd like approval for Philip Roth on the Harvard list 2003 please:https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com...
Rosemary wrote: "I'd like approval for Philip Roth on the Harvard list 2003 please:https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com..."
Done!
I looked at https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com...
and:
2014 Joseph E. Stiglitz (economist)
1973 Robert Penn Warren
1753 Benjamin Franklin
Alice Munrohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_M...
honorary LLD (Doctor of Law) from the University of Western Ontario
Paul Auster: 2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Au...
J.G. Ballard:
2009 Royal Holloway University of London Posthumous honorary doctorate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._B...
Louise Erdrich:
2009 Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Letters) from Dartmouth College
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_...
Deedee wrote: "I looked at https://www.harvard.edu/on-campus/com...
and:
2014 Joseph E. Stiglitz (economist)
1973 Robert Penn Warren
1753 Benjamin Franklin"
Got these!
Rosemary wrote: "Paul Auster: 2007 Honorary doctor from the University of Liège
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Au...
J.G. Ballard:
2009 Royal Holloway University of London Posthumous honorary doctora..."
You're good on these!
What about authors who write under a pseudonym, but have received an honorary doctorate under their real name? Do they count? I would think that Universities are unlikely to award them using the pen name.
Two authors on my want-to-read list with honorary doctorates:Conrad Richter
Five honorary doctorates from universities in Pennsylvania and New Mexico: https://www.libraries.psu.edu/finding...
Andre Agassi
Honorary doctorate 2008 from University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) http://www.agassifoundation.org/unlv-...
Owlette wrote: "Two authors on my want-to-read list with honorary doctorates:Conrad Richter
Five honorary doctorates from universities in Pennsylvania and New Mexico: https://www.libraries.psu.edu..."
Got them!
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