List of Sarah Lawrence College people
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[edit] Alumni
Since its founding in 1926, the College has awarded some 5,000 degrees in both graduate and undergraduate disciplines. Below is a list of some of the College's more recognizable graduates, organized by field.
[edit] Entertainment and media
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- David Lindsay-Abaire, award-winning playwright and screenwriter
- J.J. Abrams, Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director
- Jane Alexander, actress, author, & former director of the National Endowment for the Arts
- Damani Baker, documentary film maker and founder of SoulFire Films
- Golden Brooks, actress
- Yancy Butler, actress
- Jill Clayburgh, Academy Award-nominated actress
- Brian De Palma, film director
- Cary Elwes, actor
- Rachel Feldman, screenwriter and director
- Tovah Feldshuh, actress
- Carrie Fisher, actress, attended
- Robin Givens, actress
- Adam Goldberg, actor, attended, but did not graduate
- Sanaa Hamri, music video director
- Katharine Houghton Grant, actress
- Lauren Holly, actress
- Janine Jackson, journalist and activist
- Reo Jones, voice actor
- Sarah Kernochan, writer, producer, and director
- Téa Leoni, actress
- Eric Mabius, actor
- Julianna Margulies, actress
- Ivy Meeropol, film director
- Larisa Oleynik, actress
- Jordan Peele
- Sam Robards, actor
- Holly Robinson, actress
- Elisabeth Röhm, actress
- Joan Micklin Silver, award-winning director
- Sabiha Sumar, director
- Misti Traya, actress
- Guinevere Turner, actress, producer, and writer
- Barbara Walters, television personality
- Joanne Woodward, actress/political activist
- Alan Yu, gamemaker
[edit] Music
- Win Butler, lead vocalist and songwriter for the band The Arcade Fire, attended, but did not graduate
- Lesley Gore, singer and songwriter
- Susie Ibarra, Jazz composer and avant-garde musician
- Ira Kaplan, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter of the band Yo La Tengo
- Zoë Keating, cellist from the band Rasputina
- Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter and member of the band Old 97's attended, but did not graduate.
- JD Samson, member of the band Le Tigre
- Girlyman members Nate Borofsky, Ty Greenstein and Doris Muramatsu, folk-rock trio
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
- Joanna Simon, vocalist
[edit] Politics and public service
- Lisa Anderson, scholar
- Amanda Burden, director of the New York City Department of City Planning
- Rahm Emanuel, U.S. House of Representatives, Fifth Congressional District of Illinois
- Sharon Hom, director of Human Rights in China
- Sue Kelly, U.S. House of Representatives, 19th Congressional District of New York
[edit] Writing and poetics
- Carolyn Ferrell, writer
- Amanda Foreman, award-winning biographer
- Rebecca Godfrey, novelist
- Louise Gluck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in poetry and former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Lucy Grealy, Irish memoirist and poet
- Justin Haythe, novelist and screenwriter
- Kaui Hart Hemmings, writer
- Nancy Huston, Canadian author who writes primarily in French
- Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Bennett Madison, writer
- Jeffrey McDaniel, poet
- Joshua Mehigan, poet
- Sharyn November, editor
- Ann Patchett, award-winning author
- Esmeralda Santiago, Puerto Rican writer
- Alice Sheldon, who published science fiction as James Tiptree, Jr.
- Alice Walker, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Color Purple
[edit] Visual and performing arts
- Abiola Abrams - indie filmmaking artist & motivator
- Jean Erdman - dancer and wife of Joseph Campbell
- John Jasperse - choreographer, dancer, and artist
- Susan Meiselas, photographer
- Linda McCartney, photographer; was married to musician Paul McCartney
- Meredith Monk, composer, singer and choreographer
- Yoko Ono, conceptual artist; was married to John Lennon, attended, but did not graduate
- Alec Soth, photographer
- Vera Wang, fashion designer
[edit] Other notable alumni
- Hope Cooke, wife of 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim
- Cornelia Fort, pioneer aviatrix who became the first female pilot to die on war duty in America history
- Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, academic and psychotherapist, attended, but did not graduate
[edit] Fictional Alumni
[edit] Faculty
[edit] Current faculty
- William Anderson, musician
- Melvin Jules Bukiet, novelist
- Fawaz Gerges, Middle Eastern Affairs analyst for ABC news
- Thomas Sayers Ellis, poet
- Mark Helias, musician
- Marie Howe, poet
- Eduardo Lago, novelist and winner of the Premio Nadal
- Tom Lux, poet
- Maria Negroni, poet
- Karen Nimereala, opera singer, teaches at Sarah Lawrence's campus in Paris, France
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, III, economist
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer
- Matilde Zimmermann, political activist and former U.S. Presidential candidate
[edit] Former faculty
- Glenda Adams, novelist
- Léonie Adams, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States and mentor to Louise Gluck
- Rudolf Arnheim
- Peter Cameron, novelist
- Joseph Campbell, world-renowned cultural historian and critic of mythology
- Suzanne Chazin, novelist
- Billy Collins, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Dorothy Delay, world-renowned violin teacher who also taught at the Juilliard School
- Mark Doty, poet and former Poet Laureate of the United States
- E.L. Doctorow, writer
- Stephen Dobyns, poet
- Cornelius Eady, poet
- Dana Gioia, poet
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel Prize-winner in physics and one of only a few female winners of the prize
- Paul Goodman, writer, anarchist, Gestalt Therapy contributor
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, writer
- Randall Jarrell, poet and writer
- Norman Dello Joio, Pulitzer Prize- and Emmy Award-winning composer. Taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1944-50
- Mary Karr, poet and writer
- Randall Kenan, writer
- Galway Kinnell, poet
- Jane Kramer, Emmy Award-winning journalist
- Max Lerner, journalist
- Paul Lisicky, poet
- Valerie Martin, writer
- David Maslanka, composer
- Donald McKayle, dancer and choreographer
- Nikita Mikros, computer programmer and game designer
- Grace Paley, poet, fiction writer, and political activist who in 2004 was awarded an honorary Doctorate from Sarah Lawrence College
- Santha Rama Rau, writer
- Muriel Rukeyser, poet and political activist who, while teaching at Sarah Lawrence, helped student Alice Walker publish her first works
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor
- Susan Sontag, leftist intellectual, essayist, novelist, and activist
- William Schuman, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and former director of the Juilliard School. Taught at Sarah Lawrence from 1935-45
- Joel Sternfeld, photographer
- Jean Valentine, National Book Award-winning poet
- Caroline F. Ware, New Deal activist
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
