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), In The Loop (2009), Veep (2012-present)
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)
Susan Sontag, AB’51
Critic, literary theorist, political activist, and author, perhaps most noted for her critical essays, Against Interpretation (1966).
George Steiner, AB’48
Literary critic
