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===Writing and poetics=== |
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* [[Carolyn Ferrell]], writer <ref>[http://www.writerscenter.org/carboferrell.html]</ref> |
* [[Carolyn Ferrell]], writer <ref>[http://www.writerscenter.org/carboferrell.html Writers Center]</ref> |
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* [[Amanda Foreman (biographer)|Amanda Foreman]], award-winning biographer <ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=9009]</ref> |
* [[Amanda Foreman (biographer)|Amanda Foreman]], award-winning biographer <ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=9009 Random House]</ref> |
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* [[Karl Taro Greenfeld]], journalist and author <ref>[http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/pp.aspx?c=huLWJeMRKpH&b=612927&printmode=1]</ref> |
* [[Karl Taro Greenfeld]], journalist and author <ref>[http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/pp.aspx?c=huLWJeMRKpH&b=612927&printmode=1 Aspen Institute]</ref> |
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* [[Rebecca Godfrey]], novelist <ref>[http://www.harpercollins.ca/godfrey/USpages/bio.html]</ref> |
* [[Rebecca Godfrey]], novelist <ref>[http://www.harpercollins.ca/godfrey/USpages/bio.html Harper Collins]</ref> |
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* [[Louise Gluck]], winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in poetry and former [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Poet Laureate of the United States]] <ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/235824/Louise-Gluck Britannica.com - Louise Gluck]</ref> |
* [[Louise Gluck]], winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] in poetry and former [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|Poet Laureate of the United States]] <ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/235824/Louise-Gluck Britannica.com - Louise Gluck]</ref> |
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* [[Lucy Grealy]], Irish memoirist and poet <ref>http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1133</ref> |
* [[Lucy Grealy]], Irish memoirist and poet <ref>http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1133</ref> |
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* [[Esmeralda Santiago]], [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] writer <ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/puerto/santiago.html]</ref> |
* [[Esmeralda Santiago]], [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] writer <ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/puerto/santiago.html]</ref> |
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* [[Alice Sheldon]], who published science fiction as [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] <ref>http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fallbooks/aliceingenderland/</ref> |
* [[Alice Sheldon]], who published science fiction as [[James Tiptree, Jr.]] <ref>http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fallbooks/aliceingenderland/</ref> |
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* [[Alice Walker]], winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for her novel, ''[[The Color Purple]]''<ref name=NYT/> <ref>[http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php SLC Notable Alumni]</ref> |
* [[Alice Walker]], winner of the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for her novel, ''[[The Color Purple]]''<ref name=NYT/> <ref>[http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php SLC Notable Alumni]</ref> |
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===Visual and performing arts=== |
===Visual and performing arts=== |
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Revision as of 02:10, 6 September 2008
The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Sarah Lawrence College through attendance as a student, or service as a member of the faculty or staff.
Alumni
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Entertainment and media
- David Lindsay-Abaire, award-winning playwright and screenwriter [1]
- J.J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director [2]
- Abiola Abrams, TV personality, writer & filmmaker [3]
- Jane Alexander, actress, author, & former director of the National Endowment for the Arts [4]
- Dan Appel, filmmaker
- Jon Avnet, film producer, director, and writer [5]
- Damani Baker, film director [6]
- Golden Brooks, actress [7]
- Yancy Butler, actress [8]
- Austin Chick, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress [9]
- Brian De Palma, film director [10]
- Cary Elwes, actor [11]
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director [12]
- Tovah Feldshuh, actress [13]
- Carrie Fisher, actress, attended [14]
- Robin Givens, actress [15] [16]
- Adam Goldberg, actor [17]
- Leslie Grossman, actress most notable for her role on the WB's Popular as Mary Cherry and the CW's What I Like About You [18]
- Sanaa Hamri, music video director [19]
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actress [20]
- Lauren Holly, actress [21]
- Janine Jackson, journalist and activist [22]
- Reo Jones, voice actor [23]
- Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director [24]
- Scott King, television writer
- Téa Leoni, actress [25]
- Eric Mabius, actor [26]
- Julianna Margulies, actress [27]
- Ivy Meeropol, film director [28]
- Larisa Oleynik, actress [29]
- Wynn Padula, writer, director, cinematographer [30]
- Jordan Peele, actor, comedian [31]
- Sam Robards, actor [32]
- Amy Robinson, film producer and actress
- Holly Robinson Peete, actress [33]
- Elisabeth Röhm, actress [34]
- Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
- Sabiha Sumar, director
- Misti Traya, actress
- Guinevere Turner, actress, producer, and writer
- Barbara Walters, television personality [4]
- Joanne Woodward, actress/political activist[4]
- Sal Borriello, writer,boxer
Music
- Max Bemis, singer and songwriter for the band Say Anything [35]
- Andrew Butler, member of Hercules and Love Affair [36]
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band Arcade Fire [37]
- Abigail Chapman, vocalist [38]
- Alice Cohen, singer and songwriter [39]
- Margaret Fiedler, vocalist / multi-instrumentalist with Laika, Moonshake and PJ Harvey [40]
- Elliott Goldkind, composer [41]
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter [42]
- Susie Ibarra, Jazz composer and avant-garde musician [43]
- Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo [44]
- Zoë Keating, cellist from the band Rasputina[45]
- Stacey Kent, jazz vocalist [46]
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's [47]
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre [48]
- Kamala Sankaram, singer and accordion player for the band Squeezebox [49]
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter [50]
- Joanna Simon, vocalist [51]
Politics and public service
- Brooke Anderson, VP Communications, The Nuclear Threat Initiative [52]
- Lisa Anderson, scholar [53]
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning [54]
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois [4]
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China [55]
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York [56]
Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer [57]
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer [58]
- Karl Taro Greenfeld, journalist and author [59]
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist [60]
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States [61]
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet [62]
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter [63]
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer [64]
- A.M. Homes, writer [65]
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet [66]
- Joan W. Konner, Dean of Columbia School of Journalism [67]
- Christian Kracht, Swiss writer [68]
- Bennett Madison, writer [69]
- Jeffrey McDaniel, poet [70]
- Brian Morton, novelist [71]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [72]
- Sharyn November, editor [73]
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author [74]
- Anne Roiphe, novelist and essayist [75]
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer [76]
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr. [77]
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple[4] [78]
Visual and performing arts
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell[79]
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist [80]
- Susan Meiselas, photographer [81]
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney [82]
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer [83]
- David Netto, interior designer [84]
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon [85]
- Alec Soth, photographer [86]
- Vera Wang, fashion designer [87]
Other notable alumni
- Myra R. Drucker,former Chief Investment Officer,GM Trust Bank [88]
- Ian Lipkin, Director of the Center for Infection & Immunity at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, authority on West Nile Virus [89]
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim[90]
- Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
- Denise Hayman-Loa, head of pension coverage Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs [91]
- Brad Howes, renowned C++ and Python programmer currently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
- Gloria Lau, founder/CEO Charles Schwab Tokio Marine [92]
- Blanche Lark Christerson, managing director of Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management [93]
- Courtney McKenna, VP of Iridian Asset management (Bank of Ireland) [94]
- Deborah D. Rieman, CEO Checkpoint Software [95]
- Diana Schubart Heller, financial industry 'pioneer' [96]
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist [97]
- Peggy Woodford Forbes, founder of Woodward Capital Management [98]
Fictional alumni
- Loyd, of the HBO dramedy, Entourage
- Gil Chesterton, of the sitcom Frasier
- Karen Walker, of the sitcom Will & Grace
- Kat Stratford, in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You
Faculty
Current
- William Anderson, musician [99]
- Chester Biscardi, composer [100]
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist [101]
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news [102]
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet [103]
- Mark Helias, musician [104]
- Marie Howe, poet [105]
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal [106]
- Tom Lux, poet [107]
- Maria Negroni, poet [108]
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France[109]
- Gilberto Perez, author, film historian [110]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist [111]
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer [112]
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate [113]
Former
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck[114]
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Peter Cameron, novelist
- Joseph Campbell, world-renowned cultural historian and critic of mythology[4]
- Suzanne Chazin, novelist
- Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States [115]
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award winning composer [116]
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States[117]
- E.L. Doctorow, writer[4]
- Stephen Dobyns, poet [118]
- Cornelius Eady, poet [119]
- Dana Gioia, poet
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize [120]
- Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor [121]
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer [122]
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer [123]
- Mary Karr, poet and writer [124]
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet [125]
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist [126]
- Wilford Leach, Tony Award-winning director and screenwriter [127]
- Max Lerner, journalist [128]
- Paul Lisicky, poet [129]
- Valerie Martin, writer [130]
- David Maslanka, composer [131]
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer [132]
- Nikita Mikros, computer programmer and game designer [133]
- Grace Paley, poet, fiction writer, and political activist who in 2004 was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Sarah Lawrence College [4]
- Santha Rama Rau, writer [134]
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works [135]
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor [136]
- Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist [137]
- William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former director of the Juilliard School. Taught at Sarah Lawrence from 1935-45 [138]
- Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet [139]
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer [140]
References
- ^ "A Mind Akimbo":South Coast Repertory.org
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ http://www.apbspeakers.com/themes/DefaultView/SpeakerPages/Abiola%20Abrams.aspx
- ^ a b c d e f g h The New York Times, September 6, 1998
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ Golden Brooks's biography on filmbug
- ^ Yancy Bulter at TV.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Fall 06
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-color8jan08,1,657928,full.story
- ^ Tovah Feldshuh website
- ^ http://www.onthisveryspot.com/search.php?ss=Carrie_Fisher
- ^ 700 Club
- ^ http://www.onthisveryspot.com/search.php?ss=Robin_Givens
- ^ MTV.com
- ^ Film.com
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 06
- ^ Katharine Houghton at TV.com
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/lauren-holly/contributor/28899/bio
- ^ http://www.aapf.org/focus/episodes/oct24.php
- ^ http://www.tv.com/reo-jones/person/156020/biography.html
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ http://www.tribute.ca/people/T%E9a+Leoni/1493/8236
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/eric-mabius/contributor/32765/bio
- ^ http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800229188/bio
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine Spring 05
- ^ http://www.mahalo.com/Larisa_oleynik
- ^ http://scienceandfilm.org/filmmakers/wynn-padula
- ^ Mad TV Cast - Jordan Peele
- ^ http://tv.yahoo.com/sam-robards/contributor/28707/bio
- ^ NPR
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ [http://www.thetabworld.com/Say_Anything_biography.html
- ^ Time Out Magazine - Interview with 'Hercules Love Affair'
- ^ http://stereogum.com/archives/win-butler-weighs-in-on-barack-hillary_007715.html
- ^ NYTimes.com
- ^ http://www.cmany.org/pages.php?pn=about_staff
- ^ http://www.spock.com/Margaret-Fiedler
- ^ http://www.wiscomposers.org/archives/1997/19970426a.html
- ^ http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00034119848/
- ^ http://www.americancomposers.org/ibarra_article.htm
- ^ SLC Archives
- ^ Zoe Keating.com
- ^ http://www.staceykent.com/reviews.html
- ^ http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2774/feature/music/authorsongwriter_rhett_miller
- ^ http://www.discogs.com/artist/JD+Samson
- ^ http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/199711/classacts.asp
- ^ http://pixite.com/exhibits/C131
- ^ http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Simon-Joanna.htm
- ^ SLC Notable ALumni
- ^ http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/la8-fac.html
- ^ NYC.gov - Amanda Burden profile
- ^ http://thepublicvoice.org/events/tunis05/speakers/
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ Writers Center
- ^ Random House
- ^ Aspen Institute
- ^ Harper Collins
- ^ Britannica.com - Louise Gluck
- ^ http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=1133
- ^ http://www.bmsr.com.br/navigia/detalhe.asp?cod=72
- ^ http://mostlyfiction.com/contemp/hemmings.htm
- ^ encyclocentral.com
- ^ Britannica.com
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/464/000159984/
- ^ http://www.exalead.es/wikipedia/results/Ingo%20Hartmann/en
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A3UFCGXMREU466
- ^ Sarah Lawrence Magazine
- ^ http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/12/12/mclemee
- ^ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/wonder-bukiet.html
- ^ SLC Magazine
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ Britannica.com - Anne Roiphe]
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/fallbooks/aliceingenderland/
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ www.nypl.org/research/lpa/dan/pdf/DanERDMA.pdf
- ^ www.air.umd.edu/jasperse.html
- ^ www.magnumphotos.com/Archive/C.aspx?VP=XSpecific_MAG.Biography_VPage&AID=2K7O3R131CIT
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04EFDB113CF933A15757C0A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- ^ http://www.slc.edu/undergraduate-students/Notable_Alumni.php
- ^ http://www.nettocollection.com/index.php?page=community
- ^ http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2002/06/21/30036.html
- ^ http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2004_03-alec_soth/
- ^ SLC Notable Alumni
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/750/000160270/
- ^ alumni.columbia.edu/learn/Lipkin_Bio_2007.pdf
- ^ "About New York" The New York Times, February 24, 1993
- ^ SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ SLC Magazine
- ^ SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/709/000127328/
- ^ SLC Magazine: 'Money'
- ^ http://web.archive.org/web/20050206095135/http://www.cherishment.com/authors.html
- ^ SLC Magazine
- ^ http://cygnusensemble.com/cms/content/view/12/35/
- ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/sarah_lawrence_college/index.html?query=BISCARDI,%20CHESTER&field=per&match=exact
- ^ http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/wonder-bukiet.html
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-53640277.html
- ^ thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/04/thomas-sayers-e.html
- ^ www.bbc.co.uk/music/artist/6czf/
- ^ www.blueflowerarts.com/mhowe.html
- ^ http://pages.slc.edu/~elago/
- ^ www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/115
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/faculty.php?letter=N
- ^ www.karennimereala.com/biography.html
- ^ www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/perez
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/16/nyregion/16roosevelt.html?pagewanted=print&position=
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/faculty.php?letter=S
- ^ www.slc.edu/undergraduate/history/faculty.php
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DD1131F933A05755C0A96E948260
- ^ www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80600
- ^ The Daily Free Press - CFA dean, 95, was Emmy Award winner
- ^ www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/94_95/dotybio.html
- ^ famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_dobyns
- ^ www.poets.org/ceady/
- ^ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1963/mayer-autobio.html
- ^ [http://www.library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/goodman_p.htm Paul Goodman Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University]
- ^ http://nndb.com/people/640/000114298/
- ^ www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/301447/Randall-Jarre
- ^ www.poetryoutloud.org/poems/poet.html?id=3635
- ^ http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Sarah_Lawrence_College_-_President/id/2137960
- ^ [www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/13989/Jane-Alexander Britannica.com]
- ^ [query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4DF113AF932A15755C0A96E948260 NY Times]
- ^ [www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/337027/Max-Lerner Britannica.com]
- ^ www.sanmiguelpoetry.com/lisicky.htm
- ^ NY Times
- ^ www.davidmaslanka.com/Bio.html
- ^ collegerelations.vassar.edu/2006/2323/
- ^ www.comeoutandplay.org/2008_pigeonpinatapummel.php
- ^ www.sad34.net/~globalclassroom/Library/Southasiaanyothername
- ^ www.britannica.com/eb/article-9064399/Muriel-Rukeyse
- ^ http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1869&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/books/28cnd-sont.html?pagewanted=3
- ^ www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/528433/William-Schuman
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- ^ Marguerite Yourcenar, Writer and Scholar, Dies, New York Times, December 1987