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Alumni in the Arts
- David Auburn, AB’91
- Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winning playwright and screenwriter
- Saul Bellow, X’39
- Nobel Prize–winning novelist and academic
- Leon Botstein, AB’67
- President of Bard College; author; principal conductor of American Symphony Orchestra
- Hayden Carruth, AM’47
- Poet; winner of the National Book Award in poetry
- Anna Chlumsky, AB’02
- Actress, My Girl (1991), My Girl 2 (1994), The Loop (2009)
- Roger Ebert, X’70
- Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic
- Philip Glass, AB’56
- Composer and musician
- Mark Hollmann, AB’85
- Composer of Tony Award–winning musical Urinetown
- Philip Kaufman, AB’58
- Director of films, including The Right Stuff and The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Greg Kotis, AB’88
- Actor and playwright of Tony Award–winning musical Urinetown
- Mike Nichols, X’53
- Director of films, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate
- Gordon Quinn, AB’65
- Documentary filmmaker; artistic director of Kartemquin Films
- Philip Roth, AB’55
- Author; Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel American Pastoral (1998)
- Bernard Sahlins, AB’43
- Co-founder of comedy troupe Second City
- George Steiner, AB’48
- Literary critic
