Public Library from 1997 and on the Paris Review Foundation. He was also a Chevalier of the French Légion d’honneur and a member of the French Ordre National du Mérite. In 1996, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, Harvard University awarded him an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. and in 2013 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the British Academy. In 2014, he received honorary Doctor of Letters degrees from both the University of Oxford and Columbia University. Silvers was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Century Association. References External links "Mr. Silvers, Will You Peek at My Books?": article on Silvers in New York Observer, 2008 NPR interview of Silvers, 2013 2014 interview of Silvers by Alaine Elkann Hear Silvers discuss 2008 books with Ramona Koval Silvers' acceptance speech for Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012 Interview with Silvers on the 45th anniversary of the Review, on Thoughtcast Silvers in trailer of The 50 Year Argument 1929 births 2017 deaths Sciences Po alumni American male journalists American magazine editors American book editors American publishers (people) American people of Romanian-Jewish descent American people of Russian-Jewish descent Jewish American journalists Journalists from New York (state) Military personnel from New York (state) The New York Review of Books National Humanities Medal recipients The New York Review of Books people People from Mineola, New York People from Farmingdale, New York People from Rockville Centre, New York Honorary Fellows of the British Academy 21st-century American Jews