At age 45, Lin-Manuel Miranda already has accomplished enough to receive a lifetime achievement honor. The celebrated “Hamilton” playwright is among 21 new inductees into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 127-year-old honor society whose current members include Robert Caro and Meredith Monk. The academy also elected Angela Davis as an honorary member and voted in two honorary foreign members, the Mexican conceptual artist Francis Alÿs and the Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum. All are to be formally welcomed during a May ceremony at the academy’s complex in Upper Manhattan, near the setting of Manuel-Miranda’s musical “In the Heights.”
