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Fellows of Note

Arts & Letters

Margaret Atwood WF ’61	Author, The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye, The Robber Bride, Oryx and Crake, and other novels
Judith F. Bell WF ’63	Former Editor, National Geographic Magazine
Peter P. Bergman WF ’61	Founding Member, Firesign Theater
Rosellen Brown WF ’60	Author, Half a Heart, Civil Wars, Before and After, Tender Mercies
Janet Burroway WF ’58	Author, Cutting Stone and other novels
Frederick Busch WF ’62	Author, American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, National Book Critics Circle Award winner and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nominee for The Night Inspector; New York Times Notable Books Don’t Tell Anyone and Girls: A Novel; Guggenheim Fellow, (deceased)
John H. D’Arms WF ’56 H	President, The American Council of Learned Societies (deceased)
Nicholas Delbanco WF ’63	Author, What Remains, Old Scores, The Writing Life; Collegiate Professor of English, University of Michigan
David Del Tredici WF ’59	Pulitzer Prize; Composer, In Memory of a Summer Day
David W. Duchovny MN ’83	Actor, The X-Files; director, House of D
Caroline Elkins MN ’94	Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies, Department of History, Harvard University; Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, 2006
Elizabeth Farnsworth WF ’65 H	Journalist, writer, and producer-director; correspondent and anchor, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Margaret F. Gibson WF ’66	Poet, Out in the Open, Autumn Grasses, and other books
Allegra S. Goodman MN ’89	Author, Kaaterskill Falls, The Family Markowitz, Total Immersion; Paradise Park: A Novel
Doris Kearns Goodwin WF ’64	Political commentator and author, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga
Robert L. Hass WF ’63	Former United States Poet Laureate; MacArthur Fellow; Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award for Poetry, Time and Materials; author, Human Wishes and other books
Erica M. Jong WF ’63, TR	Poet and author, Fear of Flying, The Devil at Large, Fear of Fifty, Sappho’s Leap, and other novels
Edmund L. Keeley WF ’50	Poet, Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47, Cavafy’s Alexandria, George Seferis: Collected Poems
Ken E. Kesey WF ’58	Author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (deceased)
Philippe L. de Montebello WF ’61	Former Director and CEO, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sharon C. Olds WF ’64	Author, Blood, Tin, Straw, The Dead and the Living, The Gold Cell, The Unswept Room
Martin H. Peretz WF ’59	Owner and Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic
Robert N. Pinsky WF ’62 DS	Former United States Poet Laureate; The Want Bone and other books; Professor of Creative Writing, Boston University
Lynne Sharon Schwartz WF ’60	Author, Disturbances in the Field, Fatigue Artist, Rough Strife, and other novels
Harry J. Shearer WF ’64	Comedian, Saturday Night Live; actor, The Robe, The Simpsons; writer, director
Norman Spector WF ’70	Former Publisher, The Jerusalem Post; former Canadian Ambassador to Israel
Daniel J. Travanti WF ’61	Actor; Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner, Hill Street Blues

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