Mack Scogin was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2024 in a ceremony in New York. The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.

Merrill Elam was inducted as member for 2023.

Early members include William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Edward MacDowell, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.