- Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel "Bel Canto". Patchett's other novels include "The Patron Saint of Liars", "Taft", and "The Magician's Assistant", which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the "Nashville Banner" Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. - Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythology professor, writer, and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion. - Alice Stone Ilchman
Alice Stone Ilchman (April 18 1935 - August 11, 2006) served as the eighth president of Sarah Lawrence College from 1981 to 1998. - Marie Howe
Marie Howe, born in 1950, is an American poet living in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is presently on the writing faculties at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. She lives in New York City with her adopted daughter. - Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company. - Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux is an American poet. Thomas Lux was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, son of a milkman and a Sears & Roebuck switchboard operator, neither of whom graduated from high school. Lux was raised in Massachusetts on a dairy farm. A bookish only child, he spent his after-school hours in the town library. He graduated from Emerson College in Boston, where he was also poet in residence from 1972-1975. - J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (usually credited as Jeffrey Abrams or J. J. Abrams), born to a Jewish family June 27, 1966, is an American film and television producer, writer, actor, composer and director. His greatest successes have been the ABC dramas "Alias", which he created; "Lost", co-created with Jeffrey Lieber and Damon Lindelof; and the WB drama "Felicity", co-created with Matt Reeves. - Lucy Grealy
Lucinda Margaret Grealy was a poet and memoirist who wrote "Autobiography of a Face" (1994). This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with a disfigured face. Grealy also published a collection of essays in 2000, titled "As Seen on TV: Provocations". She was born in 1963 in Dublin, and her family moved to the United States several years later. - Tovah Feldshuh
Tovah Feldshuh (born December 27 1952) is an award-winning American actress, singer, and playwright. Born Terry Sue Feldshuh to a Jewish family in New York City, she was raised in an affluent community in Westchester County and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. She started her career under British director Michael Langham at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, where she was awarded the McKnight Fellowship in Acting. - Jean Valentine
Jean Valentine (b. 1934) is an American poet. She was born in Chicago, received a bachelor of arts degree at Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. Her early poem "Dream Barker" received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1965, and the 2004 collection of her poetry, "Door in the Mountain", received the National Book Award for poetry. She has taught with the Graduate Writing Program at New York University, at Columbia University, … - Nancy Cantor
Nancy Cantor is the 11th chancellor and president of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. She received her A.B. in 1974 from Sarah Lawrence College and her Ph.D. in psychology in 1978 from Stanford University. She became chancellor upon the retirement of Kenneth "Buzz" Shaw. Previously, Cantor served Provost at the University of Michigan, and as chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Cantor is married to sociology professor Steven R. Brechin, … - Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel (born November 29 1959) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map), which covers much of the North Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County. Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2006 elections. After the Democratic Party regained control of the House, he was elected as the next chairman of the Democratic Caucus, … - Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh (born April 30, 1944) is a twice Academy Award-nominated American actress of stage, motion pictures, and television. Clayburgh was born in New York City to a Jewish family. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress. She later joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s, including "The Rothschilds" and "Pippin". - Melvin Jules Bukiet
Melvin Jules Bukiet is a novelist and literary critic living in New York City. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, Bukiet took a Master of Fine Arts degree at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of novels, … - Jeffrey McDaniel
Jeffrey McDaniel (born 1967 in Philadelphia) is a slam poet who has performed in diverse locations such as Lollapalooza 1994, the National Poetry Slam, the Globe in Prague and the Moscow Writers Union. His writing has been included in anthologies such as "Ploughshares", "The Best American Poetry 1994", and "The New Young American Poets", and on the National Endowment for the Arts website. He currently teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College. - Chester Biscardi
Chester Biscardi (b. Kenosha, Wisconsin, October 19, 1948; nicknamed Chet) is an American composer and educator. He received a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1970); he studied during 1969-1970 at the University of Bologna and the Conservatorio di Musica "G. - Brian Morton
Brian Morton (born 1955) is an American author, born in New York City. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He has worked for "Dissent", where he became executive editor in 1995. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. - Allan Gurganus
Allan Gurganus (born 1947) is an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose work is often influenced by and set in his native North Carolina. His writing has been compared to the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, who also were identified with the American South. He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He first trained as a painter, studying at the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. - Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis is a poet, photographer, and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY and a core faculty member of the Lesley University Low Residency MFA Program in Cambridge, MA. He previously taught as an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. His first full collection, "The Maverick Room", was published by Graywolf Press. The book takes as its subject the social, … - Eduardo Lago
Eduardo Lago is a novelist, translator, and literary critic living in Manhattan, New York. In 2002, he was the recipient of the Bartolomé March Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism for his critical comparison of three Spanish translations of James Joyce’s novel, "Ulysses". In 2006, he won the Premio Nadal, Spain's oldest and most prestigious literary award, for his first novel, "Llámame Brooklyn" ("Call Me Brooklyn"). - Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld, (b. 1944, New York City), is a color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States. Sternfeld earned a BA from Dartmouth College and teaches photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He began taking color photographs in 1970 after learning the color theory of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers. Color is an important element of his photographs. - Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey is a comtemporary American poet. She has published two collections, <i>Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form</i> and <i>Sad Little Breathing Machine</i>. She is the poetry editor of <i>American Letters & Commentary</i>. She currently lives in New York and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. - Stacey Kent
Stacey Kent (born March 27, 1968 in South Orange, New Jersey) is an American jazz singer. - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, best known for "Fuddy Meers" and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama "Rabbit Hole". He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five he describes as "very blue collar." His mother was a factory worker and his father worked for the Chelsea fruit market. He attended Boston public schools until the seventh grade, when he received a six-year scholarship to the Milton Academy, … - Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (born 1948) is an American photographer. Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After taking a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MA at Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos co-operative in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. In 1981, she visited a village destroyed by the armed forces in San Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre. In 1992, Meiselas was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. - Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky (born July 9, 1959) is an American novelist and memoirist. He grew up in Cherry Hill Township, New Jersey. He earned both Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English from Rutgers University, then received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While a student at Iowa, he won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He also received awards from the James Michener/Copernicus Society, … - Holly Robinson
Holly Robinson Peete (born September 18, 1964, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (known before her marriage as Holly Robinson) is an American actress and author. Her parents, Dolores and Matt Robinson (the original Gordon on Sesame Street), were both actors who moved to Los Angeles, California when she was ten years old. She was sent to study at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York where she majored in psychology and French. - Sabiha Sumar
Sabiha Sumar is a Pakistani filmmaker. She directed the film Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters). The film featured in the Kara Film Festival and won awards at the Locarno International Film Festival. - Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller, born Stewart Ransom Miller II in Austin, Texas on September 6, 1970, is the lead singer of the alt-country band Old 97's as well as a successful solo musician. He graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas in 1989. Miller briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College before dropping out after one semester. In 1990, Miller joined Murry Hammond and drummer Benjamin Warrenfells to form Sleepy Heroes, a Dallas-based "alterna-pop" band. - Marty McConnell
Marty McConnell is a performance poet who competed in the 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2006 National Poetry Slams with the NYC/louderARTS team. Her poems have been published in anthologies including 'Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader,' 'Will Work for Peace,' 'In Our Own Words: Poetry of Generation X,' 'Women of the Bowery,' and 'Spoken Word Revolution Redux'. McConnell received her MFA in creative writing/poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. - William Anderson
William Anderson (born 1962) is an American guitarist and composer. Anderson studied the guitar with Allen Krantz, Christoph Harlan and David Starobin, and composition with Frank Brickle. His recent recordings include music by Hans Erich Apostel, Milton Babbitt, Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Meyer Kupferman and Robert Martin, as well as his own works. Anderson's compositions include "Guitar Variations" (1993) for solo guitar, … - Lisa Anderson
Lisa Anderson is the dean of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She has been on the Columbia faculty since 1986 and, just prior to her appointment as dean, served as chair of the political science department at Columbia. Dean Anderson also served as director of Columbia's Middle East Institute from 1990 to 1993. She has announced that she will leave the deanship and return to the faculty in 2007. - Golden Brooks
Golden Ameda Brooks (born December 1, 1976 <small></small> in San Francisco, California) is an American actress. Brooks has been featured in many films and television shows, and has appeared alongside actors such as Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kevin Bacon. Currently, she plays Maya Wilkes (Joan's former sharp-tongued secretary and now acclaimed author) on the CW sitcom, "Girlfriends". - Sue Kelly
I am a US House Representative for the state of NY. I am a Republican. My religion is Presbyterian. I am Married. I received my BA from Denison University. I received my MA from Sarah Lawrence College. I live in Katonah. I was born in Lima, OH. For issues within my power to resolve, write me at "21 Old Main St., #107, Fishkill, NY 12524". - George Tsontakis
George Tsontakis (born 1951-10-24) is an American composer. Born in Astoria, Queens (New York City), he studied composition with Hugo Weisgall and Roger Sessions at Juilliard from 1974-78, and later with Franco Donatoni at L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. His music has been performed and broadcast by major orchestras, chamber ensembles, and festivals throughout North and South America, Europe and Japan. - Donald McKayle
Donald McKayle (born July 6, 1930, New York City) is a modern dance and Broadway choreographer, director, and performer who has worked with many choreographers such as Martha Graham, Alvin Ailey, Anna Sokolow, and Merce Cunningham. A Tony Award and Emmy Award nominee, McKayle is currently a Professor of Dance, Modern Technique and Choreography, at UC Irvine, in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dance Department. He has served on the faculties of Connecticut College, … - Mark Helias
Mark Helias (born October 1, 1950) is an American jazz double bass player and composer born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He did not begin playing the double bass until the age of 20, graduating from Yale University School of Music with a Masters degree in 1976. He has also studied at Rutgers University. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, and SIM (School for Improvised Music). Helias has performed with a wide variety of musicians, including Ray Anderson, … - Larisa Oleynik
Larisa Romanovna Oleynik (born June 7, 1981) is an American actress. She came to fame in the mid 1990s, after starring in the title role of the popular television series, "The Secret World of Alex Mack", and has also appeared in theatrical films, including 1999's "10 Things I Hate about You". Throughout the 2000s, she has mostly appeared in lower-budget films. - William van Duzer Lawrence
William Van Duzer Lawrence (1842-1927) was a millionaire real-estate and pharmaceutical mogul who is best known for having founded Sarah Lawrence College in 1926. He was instrumental in the development of Bronxville, New York, a wealthy suburb fifteen miles north of New York City, where he established the coveted Lawrence Park neighborhood in addition to Bronxville's Lawrence Hospital. He is buried at the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. - Gilberto Perez
Gilberto Perez is an American Professor of Film Studies. Perez studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton University. He is currently a faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College.
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