Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academy

By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Joni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns. She shares honorary status with a peer she knows well, Bob Dylan, along with Meryl Streep and Martin Scorsese among others. The academy announced on Thursday 18 new general members, including such ground breakers as 88-year-old author N. Scott Momaday, the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and 82-year-old avant-garde musician and composer Annea Lockwood,