| Timeline |
| 1892 |
Born 7 May in Glencoe, Illinois |
| 1907 |
Attends Hotchkiss school until 1911 |
| 1911 |
Attends Yale, majoring in English, until 1915 |
| 1915 |
Graduates from Yale and enters Harvard Law School |
| 1916 |
Marries Ada Hitchcock |
| 1917 |
Leaves for France and serves in the Yale Mobile Hospital Unit during World War I |
| 1919 |
Graduates at the head of his class from Harvard Law School |
| 1920 |
Member of the editorial board of Fortune magazine until 1939 |
| 1924 |
The Happy Marriage |
| 1925 |
The Pot of Earth |
| 1926 |
Streets on the Moon |
| 1928 |
The Hamlet of A. MacLeish published |
| 1929 |
Serves as Librarian of Congress until 1944 |
| 1930 |
New Found Land published |
| 1932 |
Conquistador published |
| 1933 |
Wins Pulitzer Prize for Conquistador |
| 1939 |
America Was Promises published |
| 1942 |
Assistant director of the Office of War Information until 1943 |
| 1944 |
Roosevelt appoints MacLeish assistant secretary of state for cultural and public affairs |
| 1945 |
Leads the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of UNESCO |
| 1946 |
Serves as assistant head of the U.S. delegation to UNESCO |
| 1948 |
Actfive and Other Poems published |
| 1949 |
Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory until 1962 |
| 1949 |
Serves as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard until 1962 |
| 1952 |
MacLeish's Collected Poems published, earning MacLeish a second Pulitzer Prize as well as the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize |
| 1952 |
The Trojan Horse broadcast and published |
| 1953 |
Elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1958 |
J.B. published, earning him a Pulitzer Prize for drama |
| 1963 |
Simpson Lecturer at Amherst College until 1967 |
| 1965 |
Receives an Academy Award for his work on the screenplay of The Eleanor Roosevelt Story |
| 1967 |
Herakles |
| 1982 |
Dies in Boston, Massachusetts |
