Alumni Authors

Robert Lowell '40, Pulitzer prize winning poet, Life Studies, For the Union Dead

Peter Taylor '40, Pulitzer prize winner for fiction, A Summons to Memphis, The Old Forest

William Gass '47, National Book Award winner, Omensetter's Luck, The Tunnel

James Wright '52, Pulitzer prize winning poet, The Branch Will Not Break, Shall We Gather at the River

E.L. Doctorow '52, National Humanities Medal winner, Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, The March

Robert Mezey '55, Robert Frost and PEN prize winning poet, The Lovemaker, The Door Standing Open

P.F. Kluge '64, Eddie and the Cruisers, Biggest Elvis, Alma Mater

Jay Cocks '66, twice Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (The Age of Innocence, Gangs of New York)

Daniel Mark Epstein '70, Academy Award in Literature-winning biographer (Nat King Cole, Lincoln and Whitman) and poet

Nancy Sydor Zafris '76, Flannery O'Connor prize winner, The People I Know, Lucky Strike, The Metal Shredders

Caleb Carr '77, The Alienist, Killing Time

John Weir '80, Lambda Book Award winner, What I Did Wrong

Laura Hillenbrand '89, Seabiscuit

Saskia Hamilton '89, Divide These, As For Dream, Canal

David Goodwillie '94, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Adam Davies '95, The Frog King, Goodbye Lemon

John Green '00, An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska

Andrew Grace '01, A Belonging Field (Stegner Fellow 2007-08, Stanford University)