List of University of Michigan arts alumni

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Academic unit key
Symbol Academic unit
ARCH Taubman College
BUS Ross School of Business
COE College of Engineering
DENT School of Dentistry
GFSPP Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
HHRS Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies
LAW Law School
LSA College of LS&A
MED Medical School
MUSIC School of Music, Theatre and Dance
PHARM School of Pharmacy
SED School of Education
SNRE School of Natural Resources
SOAD School of Art & Design
SOI School of Information
SON School of Nursing
SOK School of Kinesiology
SOSW School of Social Work
SPH School of Public Health
MDNG Matriculated, did not graduate


This is a list of arts-related alumni from the University of Michigan.

Contents

[edit] Belles lettres

  • Daniel Aaron (BA 1933) “…may be the most eminent living critic of American literature and culture.” He is the author of many articles and books, including, Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, The Unwritten War: Writers of the Civil War and, with Richard Hofstadter and William Miller, The Structure of American History, all books that have appeared in numerous editions.
  • Max Apple, (BA 1963). Author of: The Oranging of America (1976, short stories), Zip: A Novel of the Left and the Right (1978, novel), Three Stories (1983, short stories), Free Agents (1984, novel), The Propheteers: A Novel (1987, novel), Roommates: My Grandfather's Story (1994, biography, of Apple's grandfather)
  • Robert Arthur, Jr., (BA 1930), writer, novelist, editor. Created the juvenile "The Three Investigators" mystery series and worked on the anthology TV series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents".
  • Sven Birkerts, (A.B. 1973), Essayist and author of The Gutenberg Elegies
  • John Ciardi (M.A. 1939), Pulitzer Prize winning Poet Blue Skies.
  • Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior (1988), Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991), Because They Wanted To (1997) (stories), Veronica (2005).
  • Josh Greenfeld, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and author of A Child Called Noah trilogy.
  • Judith Guest, 1959, wrote Ordinary People.
  • Aaron Hamburger (B.A. 1995) (born 1973) is an American writer best known for his short story collection The View from Stalin's Head (2004) and novel Faith for Beginners (2005). The View from Stalin's Head was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. His next book, Faith for Beginners, is a novel about a dysfunctional family vacation in Jerusalem, and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.
  • Robert Hayden, (MA 1944), Professor of Poetry 1969-1980.
  • James Avery Hopwood, (AB 1905), playwright, established the U-M Hopwood Awards (won by Arthur Miller and Lawrence Kasdan, q.v.)
  • Jane Kenyon, (B.A 1970, M.A. 1972), poet and wife of former Michigan Professor Donald Hall, U.S. Poet Laureate.
  • Elizabeth Kostova, (M.F.A. 2004), writer. Her first novel, The Historian, was published in 2005, and has become a best-seller.
  • David Levering Lewis (MDNG) is an American historian and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, for part one and part two of his biography of W.E.B. Du Bois (in 1994 and 2001, respectively). He is the first author to win two Pulitzer Prizes for biography for back-to-back volumes. When the family moved to Atlanta, Georgia, Lewis attended Booker T. Washington High School until his early admission on scholarship to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956. Lewis briefly attended the University of Michigan Law School, then transferred to Columbia University where he earned his M.A. in history in 1959. MacArthur Foundation award winner.
  • Janet Malcolm, 1955, was a writer for The New Yorker and wrote In the Freud Archives.
  • Thomas McGuane (MDNG), novelist
  • Arthur Miller, (AB 1938), playwright, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning author of Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, and erstwhile husband of Marilyn Monroe
  • Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971.
  • Patrick O'Keeffe, (MFA), winner of the Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for Above the Bar. (administered by the Hopwood Program) and instructor in the University of Michigan's Sweetland Writing Center has won the 2006 Story Prize, the richest U.S. prize for short fiction, for The Hill Road, a collection of four novellas set in a fictional Irish farming village. O'Keeffe's writing has been compared to the Irish short-story and novel writer William Trevor. Mr. O'Keeffe received the 2006 Whiting Writers Award at a ceremony Oct. 25 at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City
  • Frank O’Hara, (M.A. 1951). Author of: A City Winter and Other Poems,Oranges: 12 pastorals, Second Avenue, Odes, Lunch Poems. Love Poems.
  • Susan Olasky, (AB 1975), author.
  • Susan Orlean, (AB 1976), wrote The Orchid Thief. The book was made into the movie Adaptation.
  • Marge Piercy, (AB 1957), wrote Braided Lives and Fly Away Home. Hopwood Program award winner.
  • Theodore Roethke, (A.B. 1929) Poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for his collection The Waking
  • Ari Roth playwright and Artistid Director of Theater J
  • Allen Seager, author, Amos Berry and A Frieze of Girls
  • Betty Smith, (1921-22, 1927, 1931), author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • James Tobin, (1978, MA 1979, PhD 1986), wrote To Conquer the Air, Ernie Pyle's War, and Great Projects.
  • David Tucker (BA) Journalist and poet Tucker studied poetry with Donald Hall and Robert Hayden at the University of Michigan. In 2005, Tucker’s first volume of poetry, Late for Work, won a Bakeless Literary Prize from Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. According to the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, “‘Late for Work’ follows reporters jostling for headlines, evoking the gritty glamour of the newsroom in wry, poignant poems.” Tucker has worked for 28 years at leading newspapers and is a member of the New Jersey Star-Ledger team that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
  • Elizabeth Wolfram, 2004, classical archaeologist.
  • Ronald Wallace
  • Nancy Willard(BA, Ph.D).In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn.
  • Edmund White, (AB 1962), wrote for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
  • Stewart Edward White,(Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). Author

[edit] Art, architecture, design

  • Charles Correa (ARCH: B.Arch. 1953); Honorary Doctor of Architecture degree from the UM in 1980.
  • John De Lorean (BUS: MBA 1957) - GM Group Vice President and Designer of the "back to the future" gull-wing automobile
  • John Dinkeloo - Civil Engineer and partner of 1982 Pritzker Prize laureate Kevin Roche in the firm Roche-Dinkeloo.
  • Alden B. Dow (b. April 10, 1904, Midland, Michigan – d. August 20, 1983) was an American architect; he was the son of Herbert Henry Dow (founder of the Dow Chemical Company) and Grace A. Dow.
  • Dan Dworsky (ARCH: B.Arch. 1950). Designed the University's Crisler Arena as well as the Federal Reserve Bank in Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and his work has received over 80 national, regional, and community awards for design excellence, including a Gold Medal from the LA Chapter of AIA. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce in 2004. Dan played fullback, linebacker, and center at Michigan. He was a starter all four years of his football career playing on some of the greatest Wolverine teams in history. He was a key member of Coach Fritz Crisler's national championship teams in 1947 and 1948. Dan attended UM on a football scholarship while studying architecture. During that time he earned six letters for varsity athletics - four in football and two in wrestling where he competed in the heavyweight division. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dons in 1949. When the team folded, he turned down an offer to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and returned to Michigan to finish his architecture degree. Dworsky was inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1981. In 1983 he was selected as a member of the All Time 50 year Rose Bowl Team.
  • Tony Fadell (COE: BSE CompE 1991) - "Father" of the Apple iPod.
  • Mike Kelley (BFA 1976) Became bad boy gross out artist in L.A. in the style of Paul McCarthy.
  • Charles Willard Moore (ARCH: B.Arch 1947), 1992 Hon Arch D. Designer of Lurie Tower on Michigan's North Campus. Winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.
  • Robert Nickle (AB 1943) (b. 1919, Saginaw, Michigan - d. 1980) was an influential 20th Century American artist known primarily for his "street scrap" collage work. Nickle studied architecture and design at Michigan. Nickle worked and taught primarily in Chicago, Illinois where he was affiliated with the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Marian Sarah Parker (COE: BSE CE 1895) - First American woman to receive a civil engineering degree. A member of Purdy & Henderson, she helped to design such revolutionary steel skyscrapers as New York's Flat Iron Building and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.
  • Colonel William A. Starrett, (COE: B.S.C.E. 1897, D.Eng. (hon.) 1931). Starrett was general contractor for the Empire State Building and responsible for its record-making construction pace (completed in one year and 45 days).
  • John Tishman (COE: BSE EE 1946, honorary Doctorate of Engineering 2000), a founding partner of Tishman Realty and Construction. Tishman built the first three buildings 100 stories and above in the world—the John Hancock Center in Chicago and the twin, 110-story towers of the World Trade Center in New York. He also managed construction for Disney's $1-billion EPCOT Center in Florida, and the renovation and restoration of the landmark Carnegie Hall in New York.
  • Raoul Wallenberg (ARCH: B.Arch 1935): Swedish diplomat famous for assisting Hungarian Jews in late World War II.

[edit] Arts and entertainment

[edit] Directors/producers/screenwriters

  • John Briley, (BA 1951, MA 1952), was a screenwriter/novelist of “Gandhi.”
  • Herbert Brodkin, (BA 1924), was a TV producer for The Defenders, Playhouse 90, Sakharov, Skokie and Holocaust.
  • Forman Brown (BA 1922) Forman's Yale Puppeteers, which he established upon graduating from University of Michigan, opened a puppet theatre in Los Angeles in the 1920s which attracted celebrity attention and support from some of Hollywood's biggest names, i.e. Greta Garbo, Marie Dressler, and Douglas Fairbanks, as well as other notable figures including Albert Einstein.
  • Hal Cooper, (BA 1946), was a TV producer/director for “Maude,” “Dick Van Dyke Show,” “Mayberry RFD,” “That Girl,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “Empty Nest.”
  • Valentine Davies, (BA 1927), was a screenwriter for “Miracle on 34th Street.”
  • Jonathan Glickman, (BA 1991), President of Spyglass Entertainment and producer of Rush Hour (film) series.
  • Gary Hardwick, (BA 1982), is a novelist and filmmaker of “Deliver Us From Eva.” Hardwick wrote the screenplay and directed the romantic comedy, which starred LL Cool J.
  • Max Hodge, (BA 1939), was a TV writer for “Wild, Wild West,” “Mission Impossible,” “Marcus Welby” and “The Waltons.”
  • Lawrence Kasdan, (BA 1970, MA 1972), studied creative writing and won four Hopwood Awards. Best known for his work on the Star Wars films, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and on Raiders of the Lost Ark.
  • David Levien, (BA 1989), co-wrote and co-directed “The Knockaround Guys,” a movie about the sons of New York gangsters. Levien also co-wrote the poker movie “Rounders,” which starred Matt Damon.
  • David Newman, (BA 1958, MA 1959), was a screenwriter for Superman I, II, III, Bonnie & Clyde, What's Up Doc? and Still of the Night.
  • Leslie Newman, (BA 1958), was a screenwriter for Superman.
  • Jeff Marx, (BA 1993), is a composer and lyricist of musicals. He is best known for creating the Broadway musical Avenue Q with collaborator Robert Lopez. Together, they wrote the show’s 21 songs.
  • David Murray, (BA 1990), had his film Livermore shown nationwide on the PBS series “Independent Lens.”
  • Dudley Nichols, (MDNG: 1914-1917), was a screenwriter for For Whom the Bell Tolls, Stagecoach, the Oscar winning The Informer, and Bringing up Baby
  • Jack O'Brien, (AB 1961, MA 1962), is a Broadway producer of "The Full Monty" and "Hairspray," for which he won a Tony in 2003. He also was the producer of "His Girl Friday" in London for the National Theatre of Great Britain.
  • Scott Petersen, (BA 1992), filmed a documentary called “Scrabylon,” set primarily at the 2001 World Scrabble Championships in Las Vegas.
  • John Rich, (BA 1948, MA 1949), was a producer for Maude, That Girl, Mayberry RFD, and MacGyver
  • Todd Samovitz, (BA 1989), is co-author of the screenplay “Wonderland”
  • Jeffrey Seller, (BA 1986), is a Broadway producer and two-time Tony Award winner for Best Musical ("Rent" in 1996 and "Avenue Q" in 2004). He also is the producer of "In the Heights."
  • Robert Shaye (BUS: BBA 1960) - Founder and Co-Chairman, New Line Cinema. Produced The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  • Chris Smith, (MA 2000), co-produced the Antwone Fisher movie.
  • Roger L. Stevens, (MDNG: 1928-1930, HLLD 1964), was a stage producer for West Side Story, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Man for All Seasons and Annie.
  • Jack Yellen (BA 1913) - American lyricist and screenwriter, wrote lyrics for Happy Days Are Here Again.
  • Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (BFAs 2006) - American musical theatre writing team.

[edit] Fiction/non-fiction

  • Arthur Bahr, (BA 1969), Wrote Certifiably Insane, nominated for and Edgar Allan Poe Award for best new Author in 1999
  • Philip Breitmeyer, (AB 1947), wrote Lightening Ridge! Further Adventures of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
  • Jenniffer Coburn, (AB 1988), wrote The Wife of Reilly and Reinventing Mona.
  • KC Frederick, (AB 1956, MA 1958, PhD 1963), wrote Accomplices.
  • Underwood Dudley is a native of New York City. He received Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan. Is known for his popular writing about crank mathematics.
  • Terry Gamble (AB 1977), wrote The Water Dancers, a novel set in northern Michigan.
  • Frank B. Gilbreth, (AB 1933), wrote Cheaper by the Dozen.
  • Thomas Grace, Jr., (AB 1984) , MARCH'86, is a best-selling author of the adventure thrillers Spyder Web, Quantum Web, Twisted Web, Bird of Prey and Cause of Death.
  • Ann Hagedorn, (MALS 1975), wrote Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad.
  • Steve Hamilton, (AB 1983), wrote Blood is the Sky, an Alex McKnight mystery set in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
  • Hervie Haufler, (AB 1941), is the author of Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II.
  • Joyce Henry, (AB 1948), is the author of Beat the Bard: What's Your Shakespeare IQ?
  • Ross Macdonald, (MA 1942, PhD 1952), wrote the Lew Archer Mystery Series.
  • Brad Meltzer, (AB 1992), has written The Zero Game, The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The First Counsel and The Millionaires.
  • Davi Napoleon, (AB 1966, AM 1968), wrote Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater.
  • Ellen Slezak, (AB 1980), wrote Last Year's Jesus: A Novella and Nine Stories.
  • Gilbert Snider, (MD 1975, Mdres 1981), wrote the medical thriller entitled Brain Warp.
  • Richard Stewart, (AB 1952, MD 1955, Mdres 1961, MPHIH 1962), wrote Leper Priest of Moloka'i: The Father Damien Story.
  • Robert Traver, (AB 1928), wrote Anatomy of a Murder.
  • Juliet Winters Carpenter, BA, MA 1976), Award Winning Translator of Japanese, Numerous Books

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Theatre at Michigan, 2005/2006 Volume 17, Page #12 and #14 (PDF file)

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