- Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein is hailed as a prophetic and innovative voice in American higher education and has been the President of Bard College since 1975. The author of Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, he has published widely in the fields of music, education, history and culture. President Botstein is also a renowned international conductor who has served as the Music Director and Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. - Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is a Dutch-born historian and journalist. He is currently Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. - Mark Danner
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. - John Ashbery
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet who has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of America's most important, though still controversial, poets. - Robert Kelly
Robert Kelly (born September 24, 1935) is an American poet associated with the deep image group. Kelly was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Samuel Jason and Margaret Rose (Kane) Kelly. He did his undergraduate studies at the City College of the City University of New York, graduating in 1955. He then spent three years at Columbia University. He has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College, where he has worked since 1961. - Norman Manea
Norman Manea (born July 19, 1936) is a Romanian writer and intellectual. Born in Burdujeni, currently a neighborhood of Suceava. Because he was Jewish in the time of Fascist-controlled Romania ("see: Romania during World War II"), Manea was deported in 1941 (at the age of 5) together with the rest of his family to a concentration camp in Transnistria, but survived, along with his whole family. He was educated at the Institute of Civil Engineering, in Bucharest. - Luc Sante
Luc Sante is a writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His books include "Low Life" (1991), "Evidence" (1992), "The Factory of Facts" (1998), "Walker Evans" (1999), and "Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005" (2007). He co-edited, with his wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, "O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors" (1998), … - Harold Farberman
Harold Farberman (b. November 2, 1929) is an American conductor, composer, and percussionist. Farberman studied percussion at Juilliard and composition at the New England Conservatory and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. In 1951, he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as the youngest player ever to become a full-time member of the orchestra. Farberman's conducting positions include principal guest conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra in 1963, … - James Chace
James Clark Chace (October 16, 1931 - October 8, 2004) was an eminent historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His 12 books include the critically acclaimed "Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World" (1998), the definitive biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In a debate during the 2000 Presidential Primary, George W. Bush referred to Chace's "Acheson" as one of the great books he was at the time reading. - Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn (born 1960 in Long Island) is a critic and author. Mendelsohn graduated with a B. A. in Classics from the University of Virginia, and received his M. A. and Ph. D. in Classics from Princeton University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 1994, he began a career in journalism in New York City. His review-essays about books, films, and theater appear frequently in The New York Review of Books. - Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach is an American poet and academic who has taught at Bard College since 1991. She is currently a David and Ruth Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature at Bard, where she teaches and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program. She has also been on the faculty (either permanent or temporary) of the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, … - John Yau
John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published more over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism. His most recent book is Paradiso Diaspora (2006). His collections of poetry include "Borrowed Love Poems" (Penguin, 2002), "Forbidden Entries" (1996), "Berlin Diptychon"(1995), … - Richard Teitelbaum
Richard Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 in New York, New York) is a composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. He is a former student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, Luigi Nono. He is best known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performance. He is also involved with world music and uses Japanese, Indian, and western classical instruments and notation. He studied Italy with Luigi Nono and Goffredo Petrassi. - Elliott Sharp
Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. He has released over sixty-five recordings spanning the musical spectrum from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. - Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd (born Roswell Hopkins Rudd, Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut, on November 17, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist. Although skilled in all styles of jazz (including dixieland, which he performed while in college), he is known primarily for his work in free and avant-garde jazz. Since 1962 Rudd has worked extensively with Archie Shepp, a close friend. Rudd participated in key free jazz recordings, notably with the New York Art Quartet, … - Tim Davis
Tim Davis (born 1969 in Malawi) is an American visual artist and poet. Davis lives and works in New York City and Tivoli, New York. He graduated from Bard College and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Yale University. His photographic work delves into formal aspects of photography (light and abstraction) as well as socially engaged documentary. He is the author and subject of several books, … - Amy Sillman
Amy Sillman (b. 1966, Detroit, US) is an American painter living and working in New York. She received an MFA from Bard College and an Elaine de Kooning Memorial Fellowship in 1995. She has exhibited at Galleria Marabini in Bologna, Italy. - Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht, (January 16 1923 - October 20 2004), was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work. - Lynne Cooke
Lynne Cooke is the curator of the Dia Art Foundation in New York. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of London, and has taught and lectured regularly at the University College London, Syracuse University, Yale University, and Columbia University, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She was a co-curator of the Venice Biennale in 1986, the Carnegie International in 1991, and was artistic director of the Biennale of Sydney in 1996. - Joanne Akalaitis
JoAnne Akalaitis is a Lithuanian-American theatre director and a writer and the winner of five Obie Awards for direction (and sustained achievement) and founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York. In addition to the American Repertory Theater - where she directed Endgame and The Balcony - she has staged works by Euripides, Shakespeare, Strindberg, Schiller, Beckett, Genet, Williams, Philip Glass, Janáček, … - 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. - Jacob Druckman
Jacob Druckman was an American composer born in Philadelphia. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Druckman studied with Vincent Persichetti, Peter Mennin, and Bernard Wagenaar. In 1949 and 1950 he studied with Aaron Copland at Tanglewood and later continued his studies at the École Normale de Musique in Paris (1954-55). He worked extensively with electronic music, in addition to a number of works for orchestra or for small ensembles. - Peter Hutton
Peter Hutton (born 1944 in Detroit, Michigan) is an experimental filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught filmmaking at Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, … - Adrian Grenier
Adrian Grenier (born July 10, 1976) is an American actor, musician and director best known for his lead role on the HBO original series, "Entourage", as Vincent Chase. - Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts was an American fashion photographer who concentrated on black-and-white photography and portraits in the style of classical Greek sculpture. Consequently some of his more famous pieces are of male and female nudes in what can be called glamour photography. He was born in Los Angeles, California to a prosperous family who owned a furniture business. - Francine Prose
Francine Prose (born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American novelist. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1968, and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1991. She has sat on the board of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, and her novel "Blue Angel", a satire about sexual harassment on college campuses, was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is now teaching at Bard College. - Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino (born 1947) is a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets. She is a longtime resident of California's Bay Area, and earned her M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. - Ken Lum
Ken Lum (b. 1956) is a Canadian artist of Chinese heritage who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Working in a number of media including painting, sculpture and photography, his art is conceptually oriented, and generally concerned with issues of identity through the categories of language and portraiture. Lum's family established roots in Canada in 1908 through his grandfather, Lum Nin, who arrived as a labourer for the Canadian Pacific Railway company. - Todd Haynes
Maverick, onetime "New Queer Cinema" director Todd Haynes was born on January 2, 1961, in Encino, California, and has had a controversial career. His 1987 film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (which chronicles the life of American singer Karen Carpenter using Barbie dolls as actors) caused Richard Carpenter to sue him and was removed from distribution. His 1991 debut, "Poison", based on the writings of Jean Genet, … - Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr (born August 2, 1955) is an American novelist and military historian. The son of Lucien Carr, he was born in New York City, and earned a B. A. in history from NYU. Author of several novels including "The Alienist", "The Angel of Darkness", "Casing the Promised Land", "Killing Time", "The Italian Secretary," and the nonfiction books "The Devil Soldier" and "The Lessons of Terror". - Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart (born in 1951) is an American director of theatre. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 1974, followed by a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1977. She co-founded the Saratoga International Theatre Institute with Tadashi Suzuki in 1992, with an emphasis on creating new work, training young theatre artists, and international collaboration. - Mary Caponegro
Mary Caponegro is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include "Tales from the Next Village", "The Star Cafe", "Five Doubts", and "The Complexities of Intimacy". Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 1992, and is also the recipient of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and the Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters. - Ran Blake
Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist composer. He is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. He was an important figure in the "Third Stream" movement, which combined elements of classical and jazz musics. He earned a bachelor's degree from Bard College. - Jeanne Lee
Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 - October 25, 2000) was a jazz singer. Born in New York, New York, she was one of the foremost exponents of free jazz in the vocal application. Her singing style included moods that were sensual, somber, and sensitive. She sang in styles that included standard lyrics as well as free-form scat singing. Writers have described her style as being influenced by Peruvian singer, Yma Sumac.. Her career started soon after her dance studies at Bard College, (BA, 1961). - William Weaver
William Fense Weaver (born 1923) is considered the preeminent living English language translator of Italian literature. __TOC_ - Kelly Link
Kelly Link is an American author of short stories born in 1969 (judging by this 2001 article). Her stories might be described as slipstream: a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism. Link is a graduate of Columbia University in New York and the MFA program of UNC Greensboro. In 1995 she attended the Clarion East Writing Workshop. Link and husband Gavin Grant manage their own small press Small Beer Press, based in Northampton, Massachusetts. - Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont (born November 30, 1950 in London, England, United Kingdom) is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1976-1991) stint on "Uncanny X-Men," during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties. - Malcolm Bilson
Malcolm Bilson, born October 24, 1935, is a pianist specializing in performance on the fortepiano, which is the 18th century version of the piano. Bilson teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he is the Frederick J. Whiton Professor of Music. Bilson is known for his series of recordings (on the Archiv label) of the piano concertos of Mozart, in collaboration with John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists. - Janet Yellen
Janet L. Yellen took office on June 14, 2004, as president and chief executive officer of the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank, at San Francisco. In 2008, she serves as an alternate voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. ... - Daniel Pinkwater
Daniel Manus Pinkwater (born November 15, 1941) in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include "Lizard Music", "The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death", "Fat Men from Space", "Borgel", and the picture book "The Big Orange Splot". Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, …
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