Pynchon Fellow?

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Monterey, CA - The American Academy of Arts & Sciences today (April
20, 2009) announced the election of Monterey Bay Aquarium Executive
Director Julie Packard to its 2009 class of Fellows and Foreign
Honorary Members.

She joins one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies and
a center for independent policy research. Current Fellows include more
than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.

The 2009 Fellows represent scholars, scientists, jurists, writers,
artists, civic, and corporate and philanthropic leaders from 28 states
and 11 countries – many of them Nobel laureates and recipients of the
Pulitzer and Pritzker prizes, MacArthur Fellowships, Academy, Grammy
and Tony awards, and the National Medal of Arts.

The new Fellows will be inducted at a ceremony on October 10, at the
Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Among the 2009 Fellows are Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela;
U2 lead singer and humanitarian advocate Bono; Mario Capecchi, a Nobel
Prize laureate in medicine or physiology; biographer Robert Caro;
author Thomas Pynchon; actors Dustin Hoffman and James Earl Jones;
mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne; singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris;
California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George; Defense
Secretary Robert Gates; and National Public Radio journalist Susan
Stamberg.