the bruited cambridge companion to pynchon

[Don Higgins]

American Academy Announces 2009 Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members

"In the humanities and arts, new members include, among others: Civil War historian James McPherson; biographer Robert Caro; author Thomas Pynchon; choreographers Trisha Brown and Edward Villela; actors Dustin Hoffman and James Earl Jones; mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne; singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris; and jazz musician Kenny Barron."

See http://www.amacad.org/news/new2009.aspx 

For a complete list of the year's inductees, see
http://www.amacad.org/enewsletter/a.pdf

Also it you are interested, you can go back to the 19th century and find another TRP becoming a member.