List of The Harvard Lampoon members

This list is of members of The Harvard Lampoon , a student satirical literary society founded in 1876.

Members

• 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
• 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
• Hayes Davenport – American television writer and producer
• Jim Downey – American comedy writer
• Aaron Ehasz – American screenwriter and producer
• Rodman Flender – American movie director
• Michael K Frith - Bermudian artist and television producer. He is the former executive vice-president and creative director of The Jim Henson Company.
• 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
• 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
• 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

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• Steve Young – American television writer
• Tyler Ory — First person to hold a masthead position for the Lampoon and Harvard Crimson simultaneously

References

1. 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.
2. Klemesrud, Judy (1982-05-16). "AT HARVARD, SHE RULES LAMPOONLAND". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-07-19.
3. David Owen (March 13, 2000). "Taking Humour Seriously". The New Yorker .
4. Hirchsberg, Lynn (May 20, 2009). "Heeeere's . . . Conan!!!". The New York Times Magazine .
5. Nguyen, Sophia (July–August 2017). "Comic License: Alan Yang, writing in Hollywood". Harvard magazine.