Seeing that an astonishing number of Columbians have made a mark in literature, film, drama, architecture, music and other art forms, the Arts Initiative thought it might be nice to assemble a list. In 2005, several students made it a part-time project; we're particularly grateful to Madeleine Elish, Julia Kelly and David Harrington, and hope to see them on the very list they created one day.

You didn't have to graduate to be included, which kept Federico Garcia Lorca and many others on board. You didn't have to go to Columbia or Barnard Colleges, which yielded Paul Robeson (Law '23) and Georgia O'Keefe (TC '14-'15). Among the graduates, you'll find Tony Kushner (CC '78), Cynthia Nixon (BC '88) and Suzanne Vega (BC '81).

Any omissions are inadvertent, not a result of editorial decisions, and we apologize to those we missed. Please send additions, and of course corrections, to alumniarts@columbia.edu.  Working alumni artists can also submit events for posting in our Alumni Artist events calendar through the Promote Your Work page.

Gregory Mosher
Director, Arts Initiative

 

Adams, Alice (1930- )
Visual Art: Sculptor
School of Painting and Sculpture '53
Alice Adams has mentored many young artists as a lecturer and instructor at Manhattanville College, the School of Visual Arts and the Pratt Institute. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, and is a part of permanent collections of the American Craft Museum and The Hague Municipal Museum. Among her commissions are works for the Toledo Botanical Garden, the Denver International Airport, Thomas Jefferson University, and The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Adams' honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Adams, Edie (1929- )
Film, Theatre, Television: Actress
Columbia School of Drama '50
Adams launched her television, stage and screen career in the early 1950s, appearing regularly on "The Ernie Kovacs Show" and programs hosted by Ed Sullivan, Desi Arnez and Dinah Shore. Adams won a Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actress for her performance as Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner (1956). She continued to perform into the 1980s, appearing in Anything Goes (1974), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1983) and The Merry Widow (1986). Adams' film work includes The Apartment (1960). In 1990, Adams published her memoir, Sing a Pretty Song: The "Offbeat" Life of Edie Adams.

Adler, Mortimer J. (1902-2001)
Literature: Writer, Philosopher
CC '21 (officially 1983), GSAS PhD '28
Adler believed in the Classics as the foundation for a well-educated public's intellectual and moral standing. He advocated the Western canon through his Great Books program and his work as Chairman of the Board of Editors of The Encyclopedia Britannica. His own works make what he termed "great ideas" accessible to the general reader. Among them are, How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education (1940), Aristotle for Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy (1978) and The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought (1992). Adler completed his undergraduate coursework in 1923, but refused to take the required swim test and did not receive his degree until Columbia College waived the requirement in 1983. His academic career included posts at Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He founded the Institute for Philosophical Research as well as the Center for the Study of Great Ideas. In 1990, he was awarded the Charles Frankel Prize by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Alarcón, Daniel (1977- )
Literature: Author
CC'99
Alarcón is a Peruvian writer whose work has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, Salon.com, and others. His collection of stories, War By Candlelight, was published in 2006 to admiring reviews and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award. Now a writer in residence at Mills College, he recently published his first novel, Lost City Radio. Alarcón has received both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Fellowship, and he was recently named one of the "21 Young American Novelists" under 35 by Granta magazine.

Algrant, Dan (1959 - )
Film: Director, Screenwriter
SoA '98, SPA '88
Algrant co-wrote and directed Naked in New York (1993), starring Eric Stoltz and Mary-Louise Parker. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and earned a Critics Award nomination and an Audience Award the 1993 Festival du Cinema Americain. Algrant's short films Cathedral, Some Film Chopping Wood, Anything for Jazz, The First Dance Ever and Swimming, have screened at film festivals across the United States; Swimming won a Chicago Film Festival Silver Plaque. His latest feature film is People I Know (2002). Algrant directed three seasons of HBO's television series "Sex and the City."

Alston, Charles Henry (1907-1977)
Visual Art: Painter, Sculptor, Illustrator
CC '29, TC '31
While still a student, Alston began his professional career illustrating album covers and publications for Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. Influenced by artists such as Diego Rivera and Michelangelo, Alston painted a number of murals in Harlem, among them Magic and Medicine at the Harlem Hospital. The geometric influence of African art shows in Alston's portraits of black leaders, such as Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967). Alston's work is part of the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Detroit Institute of the Arts. Alston became the first African-American instructor at the Arts Students' League (1950-1971) and the Museum of Modern Art (1956). He became a full professor at the City University of New York in 1973.

Anders, Glen (1889 -1981)
Theatre: Actor
CC '19-'21
Anders made his start in Vaudeville, working his way to a New York stage debut in the play Just Around the Corner in 1919-the same year that he began three years of study at Columbia College. He performed on Broadway for over thirty years, appearing in three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924) by Hatcher Hughes, They Knew What They Wanted (1924) by Sidney Howard, and Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O'Neill.

Anderson, Laurie (1947- )
Visual Art, Music: Performance Artist, Composer
BC '69, SoA '72
Anderson studied Art History at Barnard and earned an MFA in sculpture at the School of the Arts. Although she has enjoyed some popular music success, she is best known for her films and performances, such as the six-hour United States I-IV, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1983, and her 1986 film Home of the Brave. In 1994, Anderson staged a multimedia tour adapted from a retrospective of her work, Stories from the Nerve Bible. A stint as NASA's first performance artist in residence resulted in the performance, The End of the Moon (2004). In 2005, she received an honorary doctorate from Columbia University, where she has taught master classes.

Antin, Mary (1881-1949)
Literature: Writer
TC '02, BC '04
Mary Antin emigrated from Russia to Boston with her family at the age of 13; five years later, she was a published American author. With the aid of Jewish philanthropist Lina Hecht, Antin used letters written to her uncle over her nine thousand mile journey to write From Plotzk to Boston in 1899. Antin also wrote a number of essays and stories. In 1912, she published The Promised Land, an autobiographical account an immigrant's conflict between rigid tradition and expanded opportunity. During her later years, Antin lectured and advocated for unrestricted immigration policy.

Armstrong, Charlotte (1905-1969)
Literature: Fiction Writer
BC '25
Armstrong is best known for her crime novels The Unsuspected (1946), Mischief (1950) and A Dram of Poison (1956), though she published nearly thirty titles in over thirty years as a fiction writer. She received the Mystery Writers of America Award for best novel in 1956 and for best short story in 1958. She also authored two Broadway plays, wrote for television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and adapted several of her works for film, such as The Unsuspected (1947) and Mischief (re-titled Don't Bother to Knock, 1952).

Ashbery, John (1927- )
Literature: Poet, Critic, Editor
GSAS '51
Ashbery has written over twenty books of poetry since 1956, when W.H. Auden selected Some Trees for the Yale Younger Poets Series. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975) won the literary "triple crown": the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award. Ashbery was the first English-language poet to win the Grand Prix de Biennales Internationales (Brussels). He has received prizes and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. A former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets, he currently teaches at Bard College.

Atterbury, Grosvenor (1869-1956)
Architecture: Architect, Urban Planner, Writer
Architecture 1884
After designing homes for wealthy industrialists, Atterbury became known for adhering to the high same standards in his efforts for workers housing. Atterbury collaborated with Frederick Law Omstead, Jr. on the model community of Forest Hills Gardens, NY. The community's pre-cast concrete panels allowed for the economical construction of multiple units and townhouses. Atterbury's other industrialized housing designs include a community of single-family homes in Worcester, MA (1915-1916) and housing for 40,000 in the new railroad town of Erwin, TN.

Auster, Paul (1947- )
Literature: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Writer
CC '69 and GSAS '70
Auster began his career as a poet, essayist and translator of French literature. He is best known for his philosophical fiction, including a series of experimental detective novels known as the New York Trilogy (The City of Glass, 1985; Ghosts, 1986; The Locked Room, 1987). In addition to novels, Auster has published essays, interviews, and a memoir, and poetry, including Collected Poems (2004). Among his honors are a PEN Translation Center grant (1977), NEA fellowship for poetry (1979) and creative writing (1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination (1991), and France's Prix Medicis for foreign literature (1993).

Avedon, Richard (1923-2004)
Visual Art: Photographer

As a photographer for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and the first staff photographer for The New Yorker, Avedon's captured otherwise distant personalities such as Jean Genet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol and Lena Horne. Avedon's work has been featured at the Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1994, the Whitney Museum exhibited a retrospective of five decades of Avedon's work. He has also published portraiture Nothing Personal (1974), a collaboration with James Baldwin. His many honors include the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Photography Prize (1991) and the International Center of Photography Master of Photography Award (1993).

Ax, Emanuel (1948- )
Music: Pianist
CC '66-70
In 1974, Emanuel Ax garnered first prize at the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. Five years later, Ax followed by winning the Avery Fisher Prize. Ax has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, and he has won seven Grammy Awards. Ax is noted for his interpretations of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schoenberg, and Haydn, as well as his work with cellist Yo Yo Ma. Ax has given world premieres for contemporary artists such as John Adams, Christopher Rouse and Bright Sheng.

Balderston, John L. (1899-1954)
Film, Theatre, Literature: Screenwriter, playwright, novelist
John L. Balderston helped to usher in Universal Studio's "golden age" of horror films in the 1930s, including Frankenstein (1931), Dracula (1931), and The Mummy (1932). Balderston adapted his own stage plays and books to film, including as Prisoner of Zenda (1937) and Best Screenplay Academy Award nominees Gaslight (1944) and Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935). Balderston also worked on the screenplay for Gone with the Wind and wrote plays such as Berkeley Square (1926).

Barrett, Mary Ellin (1927- )
Literature: Writer
BC '49
Barrett is an accomplished novelist who has also written a well-known biography of her reclusive father, Irving Berlin. Her first novel, Castle Ugly (1966), is a portrait of American aristocrats before the Second World War. Her other titles include An Accident of Love (1973) and American Beauty (1980). Barrett worked as a researcher with Time Magazine and as a literary editor at Glamour Magazine.

Bartok, Bela (1881-1945)
Music: Composer, ethnomusicologist
Researcher, Music Dept. '40-'44
Bartok composed dozens of musical works throughout his life, and his passion for researching and collecting Hungarian and Rumanian folk music made him one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. He saw a complexity in folk music that went beyond the traditional major/minor movements, tonalities, and rhythms of Western classical music. World War II forced him to leave Europe for America, where he wrote his major musicological work, Rumanian Folk Music, and worked as a research assistant at Columbia's Music Department. At Columbia, Bartok prepared three volumes of music and analysis that remain in the department's library today. Among Bartok's major works are the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle, the ballet The Wooden Prince, the choral work Cantata Profana, and Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion.

Baruch, Andre (1908-1991)
Radio and Television: Broadcasting
CC ?
Baruch was one of the original staff announcers for the CBS Radio Network. He was behind such 1930s radio series such as The Shadow, The Kate Smith Hour and Your Hit Parade. During World War II, Baruch founded the Armed Forces Radio Network. In 1945, he and his wife, singer Bea Wain, founded a popular radio show, Mr. and Mrs. Music. Baruch also announced play-by-play coverage of Brooklyn Dodgers baseball. He was a founding member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and in 1979, he was inducted into the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

Behrman, Samuel N. (1893-1973)
Literature, Theatre, Film: Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter
GSAS '18
Behrman, who got his start reviewing books for The New Yorker, is remembered for melding humor and social criticism with commercial drama. He earned a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1943. In 1944, he won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play for his adaptation of Jacobowsky and the Colonel. Other plays include End of Summer (1936) and But for Whom Charlie (1964). Behrman collaborated on the screenplays for such movies as My Lips Betray (1933) and The Pirate (1948).

Berg, Gertrude (1899-1966)
Radio, Television, Theatre: Writer, Actress, Producer
Berg became one of the first women to author a network television series. For sixteen years, Berg wrote, produced, and performed in the radio serial Meet the Goldbergs, about an upwardly mobile Jewish family. The successful show evolved into a Broadway play, Molly (1948), and a half-hour television sitcom (1949), and Berg won an Emmy in 1950 for her portrayal matriarch Molly Goldberg. On stage, Berg performed in The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956), The Matchmaker (1957) and The Majority of One (1959), for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress.

Berman, Shari Springer (1964- ) and Pulcini, Robert (1964-)
Film: Screenwriter and Director
SoA- Film '95 and SoA- Film '94
This husband-and-wife filmmaking team's debut documentary, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's, was named one of the ten best films of 1998 by USA Today and won a number of international film awards. American Splendor, which documents the story of Cleveland file clerk, music critic, and autobiographical comic-book author, Harvey Pekar, took the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival's Fipresci Award from the International Film Critics' Association. American Splendor was also named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Critics Association, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Bernays Kaplan, Anne (1930- )
Literature: Writer
BC '52
Kaplan's first novel, The New York Ride (1965), follows a female protagonist through college and beyond, offering an unusual perspective on what one reviewer labeled the "post-Gatsby revels" of the 1960s. Kaplan published a number of other fiction works, including The First to Know (1975), Growing Up Rich (1986) and Professor Romeo (1989). Kaplan also wrote a well-known textbook, What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers.

Berryman, John (1914-1972)
Literature: Poet
CC '36
The New York Times described Berryman's voice as "jaunty, jazzy, colloquial ... full of awkward turns and bent syntax." The poet was already published in The Nation (1935) when he graduated from Columbia. After meeting Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, and Dylan Thomas during his studies in Cambridge, England, Berryman wrote and taught for twenty-five years at the University of Minnesota. He won the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award in 1948 The Dispossessed (1948) and an American Academy of Poets award (1950), and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Berryman also won the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1950), the Levinson Prize (1950), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (1952). 77 Dream Songs (1964) won the Pulitzer Prize. His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), won the National Book Award (1969) and the Bollingen Prize.

Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei (1947- )
Literature: Writer
SoA '74
After publishing two books of poetry, Beijing-born Berssenbrugge earned her MFA in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts. Among her honors are a National Endowment of the Arts grant in 1976; two American Book Awards for Random Possession (1979) and The Heat Bird (1982); and the 1999 Western States Book Award for Four-Year-Old-Girl. Berssenbrugge has collaborated with artists Richard Tuttle and Kiki Smith, and has written for the theatre with Frank Chin, Blondell Cummings, Tan Dun, Shi Zhen Chen and Alvin Lucier. The NEA supported the publication of Nest in 2002. Poetics Journal describes Berssenbrugge's work as a delicate experience where "meaning arrives through sensation, the surprised juxtaposition of moment upon moment."

Bhabha, Huma (1962 - )
Visual Arts: Sculptor
SoA ’89
Huma Bhabha’s abstract, visceral sculptures have been likened to something drawn from science fiction. In 2003, the New York-based artist made her solo exhibition debut in New York with three sculptures and a photograph at the ATM Gallery. Her work has been displayed in North American and European museums and galleries, including New York’s Museum of Modern ArtLondon’s Royal Academy of Arts. In 2008, Bhabha received the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum’s Emerging Artist Award.

Bigelow, Kathryn (1953- )
Film: Screenwriter, Director
SoA '79
Bigelow studied under Milos Forman at Columbia's School of the Arts. One of the few women writer/directors to tackle the action/thrillers, Bigelow blends the genre's conventions with dark romanticism and serious themes. Among her films are The Loveless (1983), Near Dark (1987), Blue Steel (1990) and Point Break (1991). She has directed the TV miniseries Wild Palms and episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street. Her most recent films include Strange Days (1995) and The Weight of Water (2000).

Biggers, Sissy
Television: Personality, Media Spokesperson
BC '79
Biggers began her television career supervising scripts for ABC and HBO. As Director of Late Night and Specials Programming for NBC, she worked on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with David Letterman. In 1994, she moved from production to anchoring a daily talk show, Live from Queens. In 1996, she hosted the Food Network's Ready, Set, Cook! Biggers co-hosts The Victory Garden on PBS

Bobbie, Walter (1945 - )
Theater: Director, Actor, Dancer, Choreographer
Masters Scholar (Through Catholic University)
Walter Bobbie has worked both onstage and backstage on numerous Broadway hits. He is the former director of New York City Center's Encores! series. His directing credits include: Chicago (1996); Twentieth Century (2004), with Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche; the Rogers and Hammerstein revue A Grand Night for Singing (1993), which received a Tony Award nomination; and the musical version of Nick Hornby's novel High Fidelity (2006). Bobbie also directed the Broadway production of Footloose and co-wrote the book. As an actor, he played Roger in the original Broadway production of Grease (1971), and he starred as Nicely Nicely Johnson in the revival of Guys and Dolls (1992).

Booke, Sorrell (1930-1994)
Television, Film, Theater: Actor
CC '49
Booke was a television, stage and film actor best known for his role as Boss Hogg on TV's "The Dukes of Hazzard." His Off-Broadway debut in The White Devil (1955) landed Booke a role on the TV show "Omnibus" and a Broadway debut in the 1956 production of The Sleeping Prince. His feature films include What's Up, Doc? (1972), Freaky Friday (1976), and The Other Side of Midnight (1977). Booke acted in dozens of television series, earning an Emmy nomination for his appearance on "Dr. Kildare."

Boone, Pat (1934- )
Music: Singer
CC '58
Musician Pat Boone first topped the pop charts with "Ain't That a Shame" (1955). By age 23, Boone had cut twelve hit singles and sold over 13 million copies. Known as "the good Elvis," his G-rated lyrics and clean-cut persona made rock music palatable; a 1957 Newsweek article heralded him as "the new Bing [Crosby]." Boone has hosted his own television series and a regular radio show, appeared in over 15 movies (including 1959's Journey to the Center of the Earth), and authored two advice books for young adults.

Boring,William A. (1859-1937)
Architecture: Architect
Architecture 1886 (one year only)
Boring studied architecture while executing commissions such as the Los Angeles Times building and the Santa Monica Hotel. Boring and Edward L. Tilton submitted the winning design for the United States Immigration Station at Ellis Island, and subsequently founded a firm together. Among their commissions were apartment buildings at 520, 521 and 540 Park Avenue in Manhattan. In 1916, Boring joined the faculty of the Columbia School of Architecture, where he eventually became Director and Dean. Among Boring's honors are the Gold Medal for Architecture at the Paris Exposition of 1900, the Gold Medal at the Buffalo Exposition of 1901, and the Medal of Honor for Individual Service from the American Institute of Architects in 1927.

Brace, Donald Clifford (1881-1955)
Literature: Editor and Publisher
CC 1904
Brace spent his first fifteen years out of college with publishers Henry Holt before establishing Harcourt & Brace in 1919 with Columbia classmate Alfred Harcourt. The firm grew thanks to bestsellers by John Maynard Keynes, Sinclair Lewis and Carl Sandburg. As company president, Brace published E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot. Brace's financial expertise lead to his work on fair trade contracts during the New Deal era. In 1950, Brace was awarded the Columbia University Medal of Excellence.

Brandon Victor Dixon (1981 - )
Theater: Actor
CC '03
Before becoming a Broadway star, Brandon Victor Dixon graced the Columbia stage as a cast member of the 107th Annual Varsity Show. In October of 2002, the fall of his Senior year, Brandon received his big professional break when he was chosen to play the part of Simba in the national tour of The Lion King. He was then cast as the lead role in a new Broadway show, The Color Purple, for which he was nominated for a Tony in 2006.

Brandt, Helene (1936- )
Visual Art: Sculptor
SoA '75
Brandt is known for creating sculptures that viewers can enter and experience. Her public commissions include pieces at Sacred Heart University, the Staten Island Children's Museum, Long Island University, the Brooklyn Bridge Centennial and the Ward's Island Sculpture Garden. Brandt received an NEA Artist in Residence Grant and a 1985 Guggenheim Fellowship. She recently collaborated with Vito Acconci on the mosaic mural at the Yankee Stadium Subway Station, for which she was awarded a New York City Masterwork Award. Brandt has taught and mentored at Bennington College, the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute and New York University.

Brashares, Ann (1967- )
Literature: Fiction writer and editor
BC '89
Brashares's debut novel, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001) traces the adventures of four best friends who share one pair of jeans during their first summer apart. Sisterhood became a New York Times bestseller, won the Book Sense Book of the Year Award in 2002 and was adapted to film in 2005. Brashare added two more books to the series, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (2003) and Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood (2005); a fourth book in the series is planned, as are novels for adults.

Broones, Martin (1892-1971)
Music: Composer
CC '?
Broones' music supported some of the first motion picture soundtracks. He composed the scores of So This is College (1929), and The Mysterious Island (1929), and contributed songs to numerous other movies. Popular songs include "I Can't Get Over a Girl Like You," "Bring Back Those Minstrel Days," and "One Last Love Song." Broones was the head of MGM's Music Department. He married actress Charlotte Greenwood and served as her manager and chief press agent.

Brown, Rosellen (1939- )
Literature: Writer
BC '60
Brown's fiction, essays and poetry have won her the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Award in Literature, two grants from the NEA, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Brown has published a collection of short stories, three volumes of poetry, and five novels: The Autobiography of My Mother (1976), Tender Mercies (1978), Civil Wars (1984), and Before and After (1992), and Half a Heart. She is on the faculty of the Graduate Creative Writing Program at the School of Art Institute of Chicago.

Buchman, Sidney (1902-1975)
Theatre, Film: Playwright and Screenwriter
CC '23
Buchman wrote Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), which won the Academy Award for best screenplay, and Academy Award nominees Talk of the Town (1942) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). In 1949, Jolson Sings Again was nominated for both the Academy Award and Writers Guild award for best screenplay. Buchman's screenplay for Saturday's Hero (1951) was also nominated for an award by the Writers Guild. Following his investigated by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Buchman produced very little work. He was the President of the Screen Writers Guild (1941-1942), and received the organization's Laurel Award in 1965.

Burns, Ric (1955 - )
Film: Director, Writer and Producer
CC '78, GSAS English PhD '83
Ric Burns is a writer, director, and producer of many acclaimed documentary films. He filmography includes Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, American Experience: New York, and he is currently writing and directing We Shall Remain: Tecumseh, a television series scheduled to debut in 2009. He has been awarded three primetime Emmys for his work on these films, and he has also received various other awards for his esteemed documentary works. Ric is the brother of famed director Ken Burns.

Burroway, Janet (1936- )
Theatre, Literature: Playwright and Novelist
BC '58
Burroway's play, Garden Party, was produced at Barnard the same year that Burroway graduated. Although she is best known for her novels, Burroway's plays include The Beauty Operators, Medea with Child and Sweepstakes. She won the Academy of Arts and Letters Playwrighting Prize in 2001 and a Pushcart Prize in 2002. Her novels include The Buzzards, which garnered a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1970, and Raw Silk, the runner-up for the National Book Award in 1977. Burroway received a creative writing scholarship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Florida Fine Arts creative writing grant and a number of awards for excellence in teaching. She is professor emerita of English literature and writing at Florida State University.

Cable, Mary (1920- )
Literature: Fiction Writer
BC '41
Cable has published numerous stories, articles and novels throughout a career at The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar and the American Heritage Publishing Company. Her best-known works are the historical novel Avery's Knot (1981)--about the murder a girl pregnant with a minister's child in 1832--and The Blizzard of '88. Other works include Black Odyssey: The Case of the Slave Ship Amistad (1971) and Lost New Orleans, which won the 1980 Louisiana Library Association Award. She has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Cagney, James (1899-1986)
Theatre, Film: Actor
CC '18
After his father's death, James Cagney supported his family by performing in musical comedies; his talent quickly led to starring roles in film. The Public Enemy (1931) earned Cagney a reputation as the quintessential gangster, though Cagney's favorite role, for which he won an Oscar, was song-and-dance man George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cagney earned a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Angels with Dirty Faces and was the first actor to receive the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1974.

Casey, Edward Pearce (1864-1940)
Architecture: Architect
CC? 1886, 1888 (Civil Engineering and Philosophy)
Casey designed a number of notable buildings in the Washington DC, including the National Library building (1896), the Congressional Library (1892-1897), the Memorial Continental Hall, the Connecticut Avenue Viaduct and the Memorial Bridge spanning the Potomac River. A veteran of the Civil War, Casey designed the New York state monuments at Antietam and Gettysburg. Casey's General Grant monument on the mall in Washington is one of the largest groups of statuary in the world; at its unveiling in 1902, The New York Times recognized the work as "the most ambitious piece of architectural statuary ever attempted in this country." Casey served as Vice President of the Beaux Arts Society, Treasurer of the Architectural League, and as a member of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

Casey, Rosemary (1906?-1976)
Theatre: Playwright
BC '26, GSAS '29
Casey was a pioneering female playwright. Several of her plays appeared on Broadway in 1940s and early 1950s. The Velvet Glove (1949) was produced on television as "The Play of the Week," starring Helen Hayes, and earned Casey the Roman Catholic Missionary Organization's Christopher Award. Queen Mary attended the London opening of Mary Goes to Sea. Other works include Glass Houses, Love Is Not Important, All the News, Once and Actor, and The Saint's Husband. Casey was named a trustee of Barnard in 1951.

Caulfield, Joan (1922-1991)
Theatre, Film: Actress
BC '40
Caulfield started out as a cover girl and fashion model. Her fourteen-month run in Broadway's Kiss and Tell (1943) landed her a contract with Paramount Pictures and launched her Hollywood career. While her films made the most of her beauty, Caufield was driven to be more than "just a decoration" on screen. Her films include Monsieur Beaucaire (1946) with Bing Crosby, Blue Skies (1946) opposite Bob Hope, and Dear Ruth (1947) with William Holden. During the 1950s she co-starred in the CBS sitcom "My Favorite Husband" and NBC's "Sally."

Cerf, Bennett Alfred (1898-1971)
Literature: Publisher, Author
CC and JS '19
After joining the publishing firm of Boni and Liveright, Cerf purchased the Modern Library subsidiary. With partner, Donald S. Klopfer, Cerf expanded and revitalized the series, adding masterpieces from Tolstoy and Hugo and establishing an affordable canon of literature. In 1929, Cerf and Klopfer incorporated under the name Random House and began publication of a "random" variety of work. The firm's reputation grew with the addition of the works of O'Neill, Faulkner, Proust, Joyce and Gertrude Stein in the 1930s. What began with a $215,000 investment in 1925 was worth $40 million when the partners sold Random House in 1966.

Chapman, John Arthur (1900-1972)
Literature, Theatre: Journalist, Author, Drama Critic
CC 1919? (did not graduate)
Chapman studied briefly at Columbia before joining the fledgling New York Daily News in 1920. The paper dubbed him a "jack-of-all-newspaper trades and a master of all of them." Chapman worked as a photographer in Paris, covered Broadway, and succeeded Ed Sullivan as the Hollywood correspondent for the Daily News. Throughout twenty-five years as drama critic, Chapman was widely known as "Mr. Theater," "Old Frost Face," and "Mr. Curmudgeon." His column, "Mainly About Broadway," was one of the city's most widely read features. Chapman served as the president of the New York Drama Critics Circle from 1949 to 195 and edited Best Plays and the Yearbook of Drama in America from 1947 to 1953.

Chen, Yi (1953)
Music: Composer
School of the Arts '93
In 1986, Chen Yi became the first woman to receive a masters degree in composition in China. Her Chinese Myths Cantata (1996) was performed in the United States as a full evening, multimedia presentation of her work. She is a recipient of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001-04) and a professor at the Conservatory of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Ms. Chen's compositions include Ballad, Dance and Fantasy (written for Yo-Yo Ma); Spring in Dresden, a violin concerto written for Mira Wang; Si Ji (Four Seasons); The Han Figurines; and Ji-Dong-Nuo, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Emanuel Ax.

Cholodenko, Lisa (1964- )
Film, Television: Screenwriter, Director, Actress
SoA '98
Cholodenko's study under Milos Forman yielded two well-received short films, Souvenir (1994) and Dinner Party (1997). Her debut feature film, High Art--an examination of sexuality and ambition--won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. Cholodenko directed episodes of NBC's series Homicide: Life on the Street and HBO's Six Feet Under while developing Laurel Canyon (2002), which starred Christian Bale and Kate Beckinsale and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2004, Cholodenko directed Aidan Quinn, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon Cavedwellers.

Chotzinoff, Samuel (1889-1964)
Music: Pianist, Music Critic
CC 1908-1911
Russian immigrant Samuel Chotzinoff left college to accompany violinist Efrem Zimbalist and sopranos Alma Gluck and Frieda Hempel. Chotzinoff was a music critic for the New York World and the New York Post, though he was better known for his work in television and radio. As a Music Consultant and General Music Director at NBC Radio, Chotzinoff helped create the NBC Symphony Orchestra and fostered Italian maestro Arturo Toscanini's return to America. Chotzinoff organized the NBC Television Opera Theater and commissioned the first television opera, Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, which premiered on Christmas Eve in 1951. He published two memoirs and Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait (1956) and A Little Night Music (1964).

Cincotti, Peter (1983- )
Music: Composer, Singer, Pianist
CC 2005
At age three, Peter Cincotti was playing piano; by age nine, he was composing; and by age twelve, he was playing professionally throughout New York. At eighteen, Cincotti became the youngest performer to headline at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room. Cincotti caught the attention of his idol, Harry Connick, Jr., and in 1997 was invited to New Orleans to study with Ellis Marsalis. Cincotti toured with Connick in 1999, winning a prize at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in 2000. His self-titled debut in 2003 made him the youngest musician to ever top Billboard's traditional jazz chart. Cincotti played Frank Sinatra in Broadway's Our Sinatra (2001) and he acted in the Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea.

Clurman, Harold (1901-1980)
Theatre: Director, Critic, Author
CC' 1919-1921
In 1931, Harold Clurman founded the Group Theater, intending to counter the current of commercial theater. The Group Theater brought together actors Lee Strasburg and Stella Adler and playwrights Clifford Odets and Irwin Shaw, and Clurman used the Theater to introduce the methods of Russian director Constantin Stanislavsky to the American stage. Clurman went on to direct the works of Arthur Miller, Jean Anouilh, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams on Broadway. He published criticism in The New Republic and The Nation, and in 1972 his On Directing became a widely read text among students and theater practitioners. He was a professor of playwriting at Hunter College for nearly ten years, and lectured at UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Cobb, Vicki (1938- )
Literature: Children's Nonfiction Writer
BC '58 and GSAS '60
Cobb has published over sixty educational books for young audiences, seeking to entertain and captivate the uninitiated science reader. Cobb served as host and principal writer of the television series The Science Game, which won the Cable Television Award for best educational series in 1973. Four of her titles won the Children's Book Council-NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children award. The Library of Congress named three of her books as Children's Book selections; More Science You Can Eat (1979), How to Really Fool Yourself: Illusions for All Your Senses (1981), and The Monsters Who Died (1983). In 1984, The Secret Life of School Supplies: A Science Experiment Book, won Cobb the Washington Irving Children's Book Choice Award.

Condon, Bill (1955- )
Film: Screenwriter, Director
CC' 76
Condon's first screenwriting effort was Strange Behavior (1981), a collaboration with Michael Laughlin, which developed a cult following and led to the unofficial sequel Strange Invaders (1983). His directorial debut was 1987's Sister, Sister. In 1998, he adapted and directed Gods and Monsters, starring Ian McKellan and Lynn Redgrave, which won Condon the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Condon's adapted screenplay for Chicago was nominated for an Academy Award and film won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Condon also wrote and directed Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson, about the pioneering sexuality researcher.

Coonrod, Karin (1953 - )
Theatre: Stage Director
SoA - Directing '88
Karin Coonrod is the founding director of Off-Broadway's Arden Party and has directed over 20 of its productions, including Love's Labour's Lost, Waiting for Godot, Antigone, The Threepenny Opera, and Victor of Children Take Over, for which she received Encore's Outstanding Director Award. As Artist in Residence at the Public Theatre from 1995-1996, Coonrod directed Henry VI, Parts I & II for the Public's New York Shakespeare Festival. She has also directed at the American Repetory Theatre.

Corigliano, John (1938- )
Music: Composer
CC '59
In 1964, Corigliano's chamber music piece Sonata for Violin and Piano took a prize at Italy's Spoleto Festival. Under the mentorship of Leonard Bernstein, Corigliano worked on the Young People's Concerts series and composed Etude Fantasy and Clarinet Concerto. Corigliano's score for the science fiction film Altered States (1981) won an Academy Award nomination and his work on The Red Violin (1999) earned him the Oscar for Best Original Film Score. Symphony No. 1 won him a Grammy Award for Best New Composition and the Grawemeyer Award. Corigliano's first opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, won him Composer of the Year at the International Classical Music Awards. Symphony No. 2, a piece for a string orchestra commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, won him the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2001.

Corliss, Richard Nelson (1944- )
Film: Critic
SoA '74
Corliss became editor of Film Comment in 1970, a position he held for nearly 20 years. He spent three years as film critic for the New Times (1975-1978) and then five years as the associate editor of Time Magazine (1980-1985), where he remains a senior writer. Corliss served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival from 1971 until 1978. Corliss has edited books on American screenwriting and written a biography of Greta Garbo (1974) and a monograph of the novel and film Lolita (1994), among other works.

Corthron, Kia (1961- )
Theatre: Playwright
SoA - Theater Arts '92
Shortly after completing her MFA, Corthron received her first commission from Chicago's Goodman Theater for the play, Seeking the Genesis. Fourteen of Corthron's twenty-two plays were commissioned by companies such as Playwrights Horizons (Life by Asphyxiation, 1995), The Public Theater (Suckling Chimera, 1998) and the Royal Court Theatre in London (Breath, Boom, 2000). Corthron's plays explore social and political issues, such as police brutality, the death penalty and environmental policy. She has received support from the Kennedy Center, the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights and the Van Lier Fellowship.

Croce, Arlene (1934- )
Dance: Critic
BC '55
Croce has long been regarded one of the most articulate authorities on dance in America. As founding editor of the Ballet Review, Croce established herself at a time when the field was exploding with change. In 1973, Croce began her 25-year career at The New Yorker, where she chronicled George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her works of criticism include Afterimages (1977), Going to the Dance (1983) and Writing in the Dark, Dancing in The New Yorker (2000). Croce has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. She continues to write as a freelance critic.

Crown, Alfred W. (1910-1984)
Film, Theatre: Producer
CC '?
Crown made his name producing for Broadway and Hollywood. He co-produced The Deputy, which enjoyed three hundred and sixteen performances over ten months at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in 1964. Crown also produced three works on film: Hamlet (1964) starring Richard Burton, Last Summer (1969), and Taking Off (1971).

Crudo, Richard (1957 - )
Film: Cinematographer
SoA - Film '91
Many of Crudo's credits as cameraman, camera op, steadicam assistant and panaglide assistant predate his studies in the Film Division of the School of the Arts. Crudo has worked on the crews of films such as Raising Arizona (1987), Field of Dreams (1989), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Joshua Tree (1993). He has worked as a cinematographer on more than twenty films, including American Buffalo (1996), Music from Another Room (1998), Grind (2003) and Brooklyn Rules (2005). His work as cinematographer and director of photography includes American Pie (1999) and Out Cold (2001).

D'Agostino, Albert (1892-1970)
Film: Art Director
CC
D'Agostino created sets for some of the film industry's top directors from the 1930s through the 1950s. From 1939-1958, D'Agostino worked as the supervising art director for RKO, collaborating on the entire output of the studio on over 65 films. He is best remembered for his success underpinning character psychology in his designs for horror and mystery films such as Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and Isle of the Dead (1945). His 19th-century Edinburgh in The Body Snatcher (1945) and his French village in Mademoiselle Fifi (1944) are considered his most convincing period designs.

D'Erasmo, Stacey (1961- )
Literature: Writer
BC '83
Stacey D'Erasmo's debut novel, Tea (2000), is a coming-of-age and coming out story that captures its protagonist at three stages of life in three distinct moments of American popular culture. She won the Gordon Ray Prize in Victorian Literature at NYU, where she completed graduate studies in English and American literature, as well as a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in nonfiction literature. Her second novel, A Seahorse Year, hit the shelves in 2004.

Danticat, Edwidge (1969- )
Literature: Fiction and Nonfiction Writer
BC '90
Danticat was inspired by her family's storytelling to write about her immigration from Haiti to Brooklyn at the age of twelve. Danticat's MFA thesis at Brown University, a coming-of-age story titled, Breath, Eyes, Memory, became her first published novel. Breath was selected for Oprah's Book Club, which helped it become a paperback bestseller. Krik? Krak?, a National Book Award finalist in 1995, and Farming of Bones (1998) established Danticat as "the voice" of Haitian Americans, though Danticat maintains that she is one of many Haitian American voices. She has been praised for her unflinching examination of Haitian culture, careful blending of history and fiction, and delicate treatment of monumental themes. Danticat has also written a novel for young people, edited a collection of short stories, and worked with the National Coalition for Haitian Rights.

Daum, Meghan (1970- )
Literature: Nonfiction Writer
SoA - Writing '96
Daum contributes a weekly column to the Los Angeles Times. She has published articles and essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper's Bazaar, The Village Voice and Vogue. Her honest cultural observations have illustrated her gifts as a storyteller, reporter and satirist. She has published two collections of essays: Let the Trinkets Do the Talking: Essays, Abstractions, and Absurdities (2001) and My Misspent Youth: Essays (2001). Her novel, The Quality of Life Report, was named a New York Times Notable Book in 2003.

Davis, Lydia (1947- )
Literature: Writer, Translator
BC '70
Lydia Davis simultaneous enjoys two careers-one as a fiction writer and another as translator of French writers and philosophers. Her short story collection, Break It Down, won the 1988 Whiting Writers Award and the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for Fiction. Davis has published a novel, The End of the Story (1995), along with several short story collections: The Thirteenth Woman and Other Stories (1976), Sketches for a Life of Wassilly (1981), and Story, and Other Stories (1984). Davis has translated novels, biographies and other scholarly works by French authors such as Marcel Proust, Maurice Blanchot and the Marquis de Sade. She has garnered the French-American Foundation Translation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2003 MacArthur "Genius" grant.

de Lima, Sigrid (1922-1999)
Literature: Fiction Writer
BC '42
De Lima's debut novel, Captain's Beach (1950), a survival story set in New York rooming houses, was the first out of the Hiram Haydn's workshop at the New School for Social Research. De Lima won the Prix de Rome for her next work, The Swift Cloud (1952), and published Carnival by the Sea in 1954. Though her last two works, Praise a Fine Day (1959) and Oriane (1968), were also successful with critics, de Lima did not publish again after Oriane's release.

de Mille, William C. (1878-1955)
Theatre, Film: Playwright, Screenwriter
CC 1900
A son of playwright Henry C. de Mille and brother of Cecil B. de Mille, William C. de Mille became a playwright and screenwriter during the first years of the motion picture. Between 1902 and 1914, he authored more than two dozen comedies, farces and serious plays in New York. De Mille followed his brother to Hollywood in 1914 and began directing such movies as Anton, the Terrible and Miss Lulu Bett. He wrote seven screenplays and directed more than fifty silent and talking films, including an adaptation of The Warrens of Virginia. De Mille also oversaw the founding of the Drama Department at the University of Southern California, where he taught from 1941 to 1953. His memoir, Hollywood Saga, was published in 1939.

de Palma, Brian (1940- )
Film: Director
CC '62
Brian de Palma has written and directed over thirty films, mainly in the thriller genre. His voyeuristic style has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock's, and his violent flair has been both criticized as manipulative and admired as virtuosic. His career was boosted in 1972, with his direction of the horror film Sisters, followed by other horror successes Obsession (1976), Carrie (1976), The Fury (1978), Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow Out (1981). Later thrillers include Raising Cain starring John Lithgow (1992), Snake Eyes starring Nicholas Cage (1998) and Femme Fatale starring Antonio Banderas (2002).

Dean, Cecilia (? - )
Fashion: Art Curator, Editor
BC '90
As a young adult, Cecilia Dean modeled fashion for such famous photographers as Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, Steven Klein and Peter Lindbergh. The year she graduated from Barnard, Dean launched Visionaire with photographer Stephen Gan and makeup artist James Kaliardos, a limited-edition fashion and art quarterly based in SoHo. The publication is among the most elite in the industry; its issues showcase work built around themes like "Power" and "Paris," with content designed by curators rather than editors. Dean and her team launched mass-market fashion magazine V in 1999 and VMAN in 2003.

Delaney, Elizabeth ("Bessie") (1891-1995), Sarah Louise "Sadie" (1889-1999)
Literature: Autobiographers
DDS '23, TC '20, '25
Sisters Bessie and Sadie Delaney collaborated with New York Times reporter Amy Hill Hearth on Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years (1993). The Delaneys lived through the Jim Crow era in North Carolina, moved to New York in the 1910s and watched the century unfold through the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights movement into the modern era. The book became a bestseller as a portrait of African-American life and pioneering professional women. Bessie was the only black woman in her class at the Columbia School of Dental and Oral Surgery and the second black female dentist to be licensed in the state of New York. Sadie earned her masters degree at Teachers College and became the first black woman to teach domestic science in New York City Public Schools.

Delano, William Adams (1874-1960)
Architecture: Architect
Architecture 1895?-1896 (withdrew)
Along with partner Chester Holmes Aldrich, Delano designed elaborate residences for some of New York's wealthiest families, as well as the Yale Divinity School and a master plan for West Point (1948). After helping to renovate the White House under Calvin Coolidge, Delano became a consultant to every president through the 1950s; he designed the second-story porch at the behest of Harry Truman. Delano worked on the Federal Triangle in Washington DC and designed the US Chancellery on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Later, he designed the 14 original buildings of the North Beach Airport (now La Guardia) in Queens. Among his honors are the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects (1953) and the National Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal (1940)

Denby, David (1943- )
Film, Literature: Critic, Author
CC '65
David Denby has served as longtime film critic for The New Yorker magazine and has edited a number of volumes of criticism, including Awake in the Dark: An Anthology of American Film Criticism (1977). Following a self-announced mid-life crisis, Denby returned to Columbia to retake the core curriculum. Denby's reeducation resulted in Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World (1996), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award in 1997.

Dennehy, Brian (1938- )
Film, Theatre, Television: Actor, Writer, Director and Producer
CC '65
Dennehy majored in history at Columbia College, where he also captained the football team. He finished his studies after a stint in the Marines. Since his film debut in Semi-Tough (1977), Dennehy has acted in more than forty film roles-from sheriff in First Blood to lawyer in Presumed Innocent to alien in Cocoon. Known for his range and everyman quality, Dennehy has also made stage appearances in productions such as Brecht's Galileo, Eugene O'Neill's Touch of a Poet and The Iceman Cometh, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, directed by Peter Brook, and his 1999 Drama Desk Award- and Tony-winning triumph in the fiftieth-anniversary Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Deutsch, Babette (1895-1982)
Literature: Writer, Poet
BC '17
Deutsch's compact and restrained poetry is collected in two volumes: Collected Poems: 1919-1962 and The Collected Poems of Babette Deutsch. Other collections include Banners (1919), Animal, Vegetable, Mineral (1954), and Coming of Age: New and Selected Poems (1959). She also authored a number of fiction works—among them the novels A Brittle Heaven (1926) and The Mask of Silenus (1933). Deutsch collaborated with husband Avrahm Yarmolinsky on translations of such works as Alexander Blok's The Twelve (1920) and Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1943). Deutsch took the Nation Poetry Prize in 1926 and the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Prize in 1941. She was awarded a Doctor of Letters from Columbia University in 1946, where she lectured in poetry from 1944-1971, as well as the William Rose Benet Memorial Award in 1957, and the Distinguished Alumna Award from Barnard in 1977, where a scholarship fund was established in her honor in 1979.

Deutsch, Helen (1906-1992)
Film: Screenwriter
BC '27
Deutsch's first screenwriting success was her adaptation of the Enid Bagnold novel, National Velvet, which earned five Academy Awards nominations, won two Oscars, and was named one of the year's ten best films by The New York Times. Her movie musical Lili (1953) won the Oscar, the Golden Globe and Writers Guild of America screen award for best musical. Deutsch also wrote the biopic of singer and actress Lillian Roth, I'll Cry Tomorrow (1956), which was honored with the Books and Authors Association Award. Deutsch was a founder and secretary of the New York Drama Critics Circle, and she took the Tony for Best Book of a musical for Carnival!, adapted from Lili, in 1962. Another major success was her 1964 film adaptation of the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which garnered six Oscar nominations.

Diamond, I. A. L. (1920-1988)
Film: Screenwriter, Producer
CC '41
After a decade of freelance writing, Diamond impressed director Billy Wilder with his comedy writing in 1955. The two collaborated Love in the Afternoon (1957) and the 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot, which was nominated for an Academy Award. Diamond and Wilder won an Oscar as well as awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Writers Guild of America for The Apartment (1960), starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon. Other films from the pair include One, Two, Three (1961), The Fortune Cookie (Academy Award nomination, 1966), and Buddy, Buddy (1981).

Dietz, Howard (1896-1983)
Film, Theatre: Lyricist, Publicity Director
CC '17
Dietz's affinity for the Columbia University mascot translated into the roaring lion emblem of MGM studios when film producer Samuel Goldwyn hired Dietz's advertising firm. Dietz later joined the board of directors of Loew's, MGM's parent company; he became Vice President of Loew's in 1942. Dietz is perhaps best known, however, as a lyricist for vaudeville and the stage. Along with Arthur Schwartz, Dietz wrote the librettos to a number of acclaimed musical revues. The pair also wrote the song, "That's Entertainment," originally a number in their movie musical The Band Wagon (1953). In 1950, Dietz translated the lyrics of Johann Strauss's operetta, Die Fledermaus, for the Metropolitan Opera. Dietz served on the board of directors of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) from 1959-1966. In 1983, he was honored with the first ASCAP Richard Rogers Award for lifetime achievement.

DiGiulio,Edmund M. (1927-2004)
Film: Engineer
School of Mines, '50
At Mitchell Camera Corporation and his own company, Cinema Products, DiGiulio invented technology that would transform the film industry. Mitchell's reflex viewing system allowed for the separation of the camera and the sound recorder on set. Mitchell also invented the System-35 Mark II, three-camera filming and the Steadicam, which allowed for greater freedom of movement. Mitchell won Oscars for technological innovation in 1969, 1978, 1993 and 1999, and in 2001, he was honored with the Gordon E. Sawyer Lifetime Achievement Academy Award. DiGiulio collaborated for many years with Stanley Kubrick on such films as Barry Lyndon (1975), for which he invented high-speed lenses to film scenes in candlelight, and A Clockwork Orange (1971).

Doctorow, E.L. (1931 - )
GSAS '53, non-degree
Literature: Writer
Edgar Laurence Doctorow's first literary success was The Book of Daniel (1971), which is set against the tumultuous backdrop of Columbia University in 1968. The novel's protagonist, Daniel, is a graduate student who spends much of his time at Butler Library researching his parents, who are loosely based on executed communists Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Since then, Doctorow's novels have been acclaimed for their blending of history and social commentary with epic plots. A number of his books have been both critical and commercial achievements, including Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989) and The March (2005), the award-winning fictional account of General Sherman's Civil War campaign through the South

Douglas, Helen Gahagan (1900-1980)
Theatre, Film: Actress
BC '24
Douglas attended Barnard because of its proximity to Broadway; she left school for her Broadway debut as the lead in Dreams for Sale (1922). By 1925, she had performed Young Woodley over 260 times and been named one of the twelve most beautiful women in America. Douglas made her film debut in the classic horror film She (1935). Moved by what she witnessed touring Germany in the lead-up to World War II, she entered the politics as a champion of progressive causes, from organized labor to environmental protection. She represented California in the US Congress from 1944 to 1952.

du Plessix Gray, Francine (1930- )
Literature: Writer
BC '52
Francine du Plessix Gray is a regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of numerous essays, nonfiction books, and novels, including Simone Weil (2001), At Home with the Marquis de Sade (1999), Rage and Fire (1994), and Lovers and Tyrants (1967). She recently published a portrait of her mother and father, Them: A Memoir of Parents (2005). Du Plessix Gray has been awarded France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Duncan, Todd (1903-1998)
Music, Theatre: Singer, Actor, Teacher
TC '30
Baritone Todd Duncan began a 25-year stage career in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana with the all-black Aeolian Opera in 1934. His debut led to an audition with George Gershwin, who hired Duncan for Porgy in Porgy and Bess. In 1945, Duncan became the first black man to perform opera with a white cast, singing Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Duncan sang 2,000 recitals in 56 countries, and mentored hundreds of students through his nineties.

Dunnock, Mildred (1901?-1991)
Theatre, Film: Actress, Director
TC '33
Dunnock's most notable role was Linda Loman in the original cast of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman on Broadway in 1966. A schoolteacher, Dunnock taught by day and performed by night for years, appearing in plays such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Tartuffe. Dunnock films and television shows include John Steinbeck's Viva Zapata starring Marlon Brando (1952), Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry (1955), Butterfield 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor (1960), and Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth with Paul Newman (1962). She earned Academy Award nominations for Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman (1951) and Aunt Rose Comfort in Baby Doll (1956). Dunnock directed two stage productions and continued to act well into her eighties.

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau (1941- )
Literature: Poet, Essayist, Critic
BC '63, GSAS '64, PhD '70
DuPlessis has published a numerous articles and volumes of feminist literary criticism, most notably "For the Etruscans" from The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice (1990). DuPlessis describes her creative work since 1986, titled Drafts and published in volumes, as "interdependent, related, canto-like poems." Her essays and poetry share concerns such as subjectivity and gender, female figures in poetry, and cultural memory. DuPlessis's awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986, 1988), a fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1990), and the Fund of Poetry's award for "service to American poetry" (1993). She is an English professor at Temple University.

Ebb, Fred (1933 - 2004)
Music: Lyricist
GSAS '57 (?)
Ebb was best known for the witty lyrics he set to John Kander's music throughout 40 years of collaboration. Their first big success, Cabaret (directed by Harold Prince), won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Score in 1966. The duo's other Tony-winning musicals include 70, Girls, 70 (1971), Chicago (1975, choreographed by Bob Fosse), Woman of the Year (1981), and The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). Songs such as "Maybe This Time," "All That Jazz," and "Nowadays" have showcased the talent of Broadway stars such as Liza Minnelli and Barbara Streisand. Kander and Ebb wrote "New York, New York" for Martin Scorsese's 1977 film of the same name, and Frank Sinatra's 1979 rendition of the song helped turn it into a classic.

Edman, Irwin (1896-1954)
Literature: Writer, Philosopher, Teacher
CC '17, PhD '19
Edman's philosophy dissertation, Human Traits and Their Social Significance, immediately became required reading for the core course "Contemporary Civilizations." Edman became a full professor at Columbia in 1935. Among his publications are Poems (1925), the novel Richard Kane Looks at Life (1925), and an introduction to the philosophy of art, The World, the Arts, and the Artist. Edman's collection of stories, A Philosopher's Holiday, details his belief that philosophical attitudes emerge from everyday experiences.

Eikenberry, Jill (1947- )
Theatre: Actress
BC '69
Eikenberry's stage performances include roles in Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women with Meryl Streep in 1979, Tennessee Williams' Eccentricities of a Nightingale (1976), and Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky, for which she won an Obie Award. Along with numerous film appearances, Eikenberry has played activist counselor Ann Kelsey on television's L.A. Law, a role for which she won a Golden Globe. She is an outspoken advocate for breast cancer research, having survived the disease in the 1980s.

Einfeld, Charles (1901-1974)
Film: Producer, Publicist

Charles Einfeld's publicity projects include A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), starring James Cagney and Mickey Rooney, and The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Einfeld eventually rose to become head of advertising and publicity for Warner Brothers Studios. Einfeld also worked as a producer for Arch of Triumph (1948), starring Ingrid Bergman.

Ephron, Delia (1944- )
Film, Literature: Screenwriter, Fiction Writer
BC '66
Ephron is the funny half of the Ephron Sisters, who have collaborated on box-office successes such as Michael (1998), You've Got Mail (1998) and Hanging Up (2000). She collaborated with fellow Barnard alumna Ann Brasheras to adapt The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants to film (2005). Ephron has also published a number of humorous books for young readers, including How to Eat Like a Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grownup (1978) and Teenage Romance; Or, How to Die of Embarrassment (1981). She has also recently turned to fiction. Her novels are Hanging Up (1995) and Big City Eyes (2000).

Epstein, Jason (1928- )
Literature: Writer, Publisher
CC '49, GSAS '50
Epstein is credited with spurring the "paperback revolution" with his affordable Anchor Books imprint. In 1958, Epstein moved to Random House where he has served in as editorial director for forty years, working with Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, E. L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal and Philip Roth. He also had a hand in the founding of The New York Review of Books in 1962 and the Library of America in 1982. Epstein has won the Association of American Publishers' Curtis Benjamin Award and the first National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters.

Erskine, John (1951 - )
Music: Writer, Teacher, Musician
CC '01, PhD '03, LL.D. '29
As a teacher at Columbia, Erskine's proteges included Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Clifton Fadiman. He authored the surprise overnight success, The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1925), which explored the problems of the "lost generation" of Jazz Age youth. Erskine published thirty books, often modernizing classic characters such as Sir Galahad or Adam and Eve. He also harbored a love of music, playing in small ensembles, and served as president of the Juilliard School of Music from 1928-1937. Among his many honors is the Butler Medal (1918).

Eugene Drucker (1951 - )
Music: Violinist
CC '73
Eugene Drucker, an esteemed violinist and one of the founding members of the Emerson String Quartet, has appeared with the orchestras of Montreal, Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Austin, Hartford, Richmond, Toledo and the Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as the American Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. He was also a concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, his other Alma Mater, and is now a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Fadiman, Clifton (1904-1999)
Literature: Writer, Editor, Critic
CC '25
Fadiman is best known as a radio host from the 1930s and 40s, particularly "Information, Please," on which contestants attempted to stump a panel of experts with trivia questions. Fadiman was a longtime editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the editor of over two dozen anthologies on subjects ranging from poetry to mathematics. He wrote introductions for the Modern Library editions of such works as Moby Dick and War and Peace. Fadiman was especially proud of his World Treasury of Children's Literature, and advocated for the consumption of good literature via his popular Book-of-the-Month and Reader's Clubs. In 1993, he was honored with the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Farley, Walter (1915-1989)
Literature: Juvenile Fiction Writer
CC '41
Walter Farley was still an undergraduate at when he published The Black Stallion in 1941. The popularity of his debut led to a series of twenty-one books published over forty years; six of these were Junior Literary Guild selections. Farley later wrote stories of other characters and horses, including a biography of the famous American thoroughbred, Man O'War. Farley's thirty-four published titles have sold over twelve million copies in the United States, and are in print in fourteen other countries. The Black Stallion (1979) and The Black Stallion returns (1983) were adapted from Farley's books.

Farrelly, Peter (1956- )
Literature, Film: Director, Screenwriter, Novelist
SoA '86
Along with brother, Bobby, Peter Farrelly is one half of the writing/directing duo known as the Farrelly Brothers. In 1994, Farrelly wrote and directed his first hit film, Dumb and Dumber, a comedy starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. The Farrellys' comedies combine grotesque humor with affectionate romance; they include Kingpin (1996), There's Something About Mary (1998), Shallow Hal (2001) and Fever Pitch (2005). Farrelly has also written for television and published two novels, The Comedy Writer (1998) and Outside Providence (1988).

Ferrer, Jose (1912-1992)
Film, Theatre: Actor, Director, Producer
CC 1933-1934
Ferrer demonstrated his flair roles villainous roles as Iago opposite Paul Robeson in the landmark 1943 production of Othello. His first Tony Award came in 1946 for his performance in Cyrano de Bergerac, and at the height of his stage career he directed and starred in Twentieth Century (1950) and the Pulitzer-Prize winning drama The Shrike, which brought him Tonys for Best Actor and Best Direction. Ferrer's film performances in Joan of Arc (1948), with Ingrid Bergman, and as Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge (1952) were nominated for best supporting actor. Ferrer directed seven films in the 50s and 60s, including The Great Man (1956) and I Accuse (1958), and continued to act in through the 1980s for television and film.

Fields, Herbert (1897-1958)
Theatre, Music: Librettist
CC'?
Among his accomplishments, Fields wrote librettos for many of Cole Porter's musicals, including Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), The New Yorkers (1930) and Pardon My English (1931). Fields wrote the books of more than twenty shows, the most revived being Annie Get Your Gun (1946), which became a vehicle for such stars as Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters (1999). Fields had just completed the original story for Redhead when he passed away; the musical, with Gwen Verdon in the lead role and choreography by Bob Fosse, won five Tonys, including Best Musical, in 1959.

Foch, Nina (1924- )
Theatre, Film: Actress, Director
BC '?
Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress Nina Foch made her Broadway debut in Rogers and Hammerstein's John Loves Mary (1947). Other appearances include Twelfth Night (1949) and King Lear (1950) on Broadway, and Tonight at 8:30, which she also directed at the National Repertory Theatre (1966). Foch played her first of more than sixty film roles in Wagon Wheels West (1943), and performed in as many as six films a year in the 40s, such as Shadows in the Night (1944) and Strange Affair (1944). Foch's other notable films include Johnny Allegro (1949), An American in Paris (1951), The Ten Commandments (1957), Spartacus (1960), and Pumpkin (2002).

Foner Gyllenhaal, Naomi (1946- )
Television and Film: Screenwriter
BC '66, GSAS '?
Gyllenhaal is the sister of Columbia History professor Eric Foner and the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal, also Columbia alums. She began her career as Eugene McCarthy's media director in his bid for the presidency in 1968. Later, she produced children's programs for PBS, including "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company." Her screenplay for Running on Empty (1988) brought her Golden Globe and PEN Awards for Best Screenplay and an Oscar nomination. Her other titles include A Dangerous Woman and Losing Isaiah (1995), with Halle Berry and Jessica Lange.

Fox, Matthew (1966 - )
Film: Actor
CC '89
Matthew Fox first gained recognition for his role as the older brother and patriarch Charlie Salinger on Party of Five, a critically acclaimed 1990s teen television drama. He currently stars as Dr. Jack Shephard on the hit ABC drama series Lost, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination. His role on Lost also won him the 2005 Satellite Award and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. In 2006, Fox co-stared with Matthew McConaughey in the sports drama, We Are Marshall, and is currently starring in the 2007 thriller, Vantage Point.

Foy III, Eddie (1935- )
Television, Film: Casting Director

Eddie Foy III has had a hand in the casting of such popular television shows as Happy Days, Cheers, Three's Company, and I Dream of Jeannie, along with numerous movies. Foy tours the country conducting seminars and workshops for casting professionals. He has been honored by the National Organization for the Advancement of Hispanic Actors and Nosotros for his efforts to advance Latino actors in the industry.

Frager, Malcolm (1935-1991)
Music: Pianist
CC '57
Malcolm Frager gave his first piano concert at the age of six; at ten, me made his solo debut with Golschmann and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, K.453. Frager won a series of competitions in the late 50s, taking highest honors at the Geneva, Leventritt and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium competitions. He toured internationally, performing a range of works, from Haydn to modern composers. Frager was known for performing the Schumann Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's first Piano Concerto in their rare, original versions.

Garafola, Lynn (1946- )
Dance: Critic, Historian
BC '68
Garafola, a faculty member of her alma mater since 2000, has written and edited numerous authoritative works on dance and the major influences in the field, among them: Diaghilev's Ballet Russes (1989), Of, By and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s (1995), and Dance For a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet (1999). She has contributed to Dance Magazine, The Nation, and The Times Literary Supplement, and she has guest curated several dance history exhibitions for The New York Historical Society and the New York Public Library, among other institutions, including America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100 (2005). Garafola has won Fulbright and Getty fellowships in the history of art and the humanities, as well as the De la Torre Bueno Prize (1990). In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters—only the third in the field of dance.

Garcia, Cristina (1958- )
Literature: Novelist and Poet
BC '79
While working as a reporter and correspondent for Time magazine, Garcia began to write fiction drawing upon her Cuban heritage. Her debut novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Garcia has also published The Agüero Sisters (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003). Each of her works explores the complexities of dual cultural identity from the perspective of strong female protagonists. Garcia recently edited ¡Cubanismo!: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature.

Garfunkel, Art (Arthur) (1941- )
Music: Singer, Songwriter
CC '65, GSAS '67
Best known as the tenor half of the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel has also acted in motion pictures and recorded solo albums. He met Paul Simon in the sixth grade in Forest Hills, New York; by age fifteen, they had recorded the hit pop rock single "Hey! Schoolgirl." While Garfunkel studied architecture and math at Columbia, Simon and Garfunkel amassed a following in New York, and Columbia Records released their first album in 1964. The 1965 re-release of "Sounds of Silence" was the first hit in a career that would amass eight Grammy Awards by 1970, including best album for Bridge Over Troubled Water. Garfunkel's solo career was marked by the albums Angel Clare and Breakaway. After a 12-year hiatus, Simon and Garfunkel reunited for a double album and international tour in 1982 and again in 2003.

Gassner, John (1903-1967)
Theatre: Critic, Historian
CC '24, GSAS '25
Gassner pursued simultaneous careers as a teacher, dramaturge, critic, writer and editor. He taught drama, playwriting, dramaturgy and theatre history at Hunter College, the New School, Bryn Mawr and Queens College. Gassner chaired the play department of the Theatre Guild for more than ten years. He is best known as an advocate of the stage as a forum for addressing controversial topics, even during the McCarthy Era. Gassner contributed more than twenty books on drama, including Masters of the Drama (1940) and Producing the Play (1941), and he edited some one hundred anthologies of drama. Gassner was a member of the Drama Critics Circle and a drama advisor to the Pulitzer Prize Committee. He was awarded the American Educational Theatre Association's Award of Merit in 1960, and a number of playwriting awards and festivals have been named in his honor.

Geer, Will (1902-1978)
Theatre, Film, Television: Actor
GSAS '?
Geer began acting in tent shows and on Ohio River showboats. He performed numerous Shakespearean roles and acted in Broadway shows like Tobacco Road (1933), Of Mice and Men (1937), and 100 in the Shade (1963), for which he received a Tony nomination. Greer was best known as the grandfather in "The Waltons," for which he won an Emmy Award in 1975. Geer portrayed Robert Frost, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman in one-man shows, and was a storyteller and folksinger himself. Despite a blacklisting by the HUAC Committee, Greer continued to work in TV ("Bonanza" and "Mission: Impossible") and the movies, including In Cold Blood (1967) and The Reivers (1969).

Gershwin, Ira (1896-1983)
Theatre: Lyricist
Extension System Pre-Medical Curriculum 1918
George and Ira Gershwin are famous for their songwriting talents in a number of genres—from vaudeville revues to musical comedies, operettas and film scores. Among the Gershwins' classic tunes are "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Embraceable You," "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That Away From Me." Their musical satire, Of Thee I Sing, brought won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1932; Porgy and Bess, known for its African American themes and the song "Summertime," is considered a landmark American folk and jazz opera. Gershwin collaborated with Harold Arlen (A Star is Born, 1954), Kurt Weill (Where Do We Go From Here?, 1945) Jerome Kern (Cover Girl, 1944) and Aaron Copeland (The North Star, 1943). The Gershwins' music continues to enjoy success; their tunes scored the 1992 musical Crazy For You, which won five Tony and Drama Desk Awards.

Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
Literature: Poet, Educator, Activist
CC '48
Ginsberg was an icon and founding father of the Beat Generation—the literary movement that inspired an American counterculture in the 1950s. A champion of spiritual and sexual liberation, gay rights, drug experimentation, tolerance and free expression, Ginsberg was embraced as an antidote to the conformity of Post-War America. His public reading of "Howl (for Carl Solomon)" in 1955 was hailed as a landmark event in American literature. In 1956, police seized first printed copies of "Howl" and Ginsberg's publishers were charged with indecency, prompting the ACLU to defend Ginsberg in a highly publicized trial that ultimately affirmed freedom of speech and press. Ginsberg's second volume, Kaddish, And Other Poems, is characterized by the use of gritty vernacular and improvisational rhythm. As a humanitarian and advocate of nonviolent protest, particularly against the Vietnam War, Ginsberg became a spokesman for the "hippie" generation and for anti-establishment causes (it was Ginsberg who coined the term "flower power"). The Fall of America: Poems of These States won the National Book Award in 1972. Ginsberg founded a creative writing program in the memory of Jack Kerouac and held a tenured professorship at Brooklyn College.

Giroux, Robert (1914- )
Literature: Editor, Publisher
CC '36
Giroux started his career with fellow Columbians Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace. At Harcourt & Brace, Giroux brought in writers such as Robert Lowell and Bernard Malamud. He moved to Farrar, Straus in 1955 (which became Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1963) and brought them Malamud's National Book Award-winning novel, The Assistant, along with Nobel Prize-winners Isaac Bashevis Singer, Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney. Over the course of four decades, Giroux also worked with Carl Sandburg, Flannery O'Conner, Katherine Anne Porter, William Golding, T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, Susan Sontag and Walker Percy. He has been awarded the Ivan Sandrof Award for from the National Book Critics Circle (1987) and Columbia's Alexander Hamilton Medal.

Gold, Herbert (1924- )
Literature: Writer
CC '46
At Columbia, Gold fell in with the Beat Generation, striking up a friendship with Jack Kerouac, haunting jazz bars, and publishing and reading his poetry. Gold completed his first novel of over twenty novels, Birth of a Hero (1951), while on a Fulbright scholarship in Paris. His best-known work is Fathers: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, an account of a father and son living the immigrant experience of America at the start of World War II.

Goldman, James (1927-1998)
Literature, Music, Theatre, Film: Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist, Lyricist
GSAS '52
Goldman's first play, They Might Be Giants, premiered in England in 1961. He followed with Broadway premieres for Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole (co-written with brother, William, in 1961) and A Family Affair (in collaboration with musician Peter Kander in 1962), starring Peter Fonda. A Lion in Winter, featured performances by Robert Preston and Christopher Walken; Goldman's film adaptation won him an Oscar, an American Screenwriters award, the Writers Guild of Britain Zeta Plaque, and a Writers Guild Award. In 1971, Goldman worked on Stephen Sondheim's Follies, which won the Drama Critics Circle Award for best musical and was nominated for a Tony Award.

Goldman, Richard Franko (1910-1980)
Music: Conductor, Composer, Critic
CC '30
Goldman succeeded his father, Franko Goldman, as conductor of the Goldman Band (now the Goldman Memorial Band). He conducted the premiere of Arnold Schoenberg's Theme and Variations for Wind Band and Hector Berlioz's Funeral and Triumphal Symphony. Goldman was the New York music critic of the Musical Quarterly from 1948-1968. He served as department chair of the Juilliard Department of Literature and Materials of Music from 1947 to 1960. Goldman was appointed president the Peabody Conservatory in 1968.

Goldman, William (1931- )
Film, Literature: Screenwriter, Novelist
GSAS '56
Despite publishing five works of fiction and two Broadway plays, Goldman has made his name as a screenwriter. The classic bank robber adventure, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1971), starred Newman and Robert Redford and won Goldman the first of two Academy Awards for best screenplay; the second was for All the President's Men (1976). Other screenplays include The Stepford Wives (1974), Marathon Man (1976), The Princess Bride (1987), Maverick (1994) and The Ghost and the Darkness (1996). The Producers Guild of America awarded Goldman the Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in 1983.

Goldstein, Rebecca (1950- )
Literature: Fiction Writer
BC '72
After receiving her PhD, Goldstein spent ten years as a professor of philosophy at Barnard. Her debut novel, The Mind-Body Problem (1983), demonstrated Goldstein's penchant for satire and her interest in the dichotomies of passion/logic and emotion/intellect. Goldstein's other titles include The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind (1989), The Dark Sister (1991), and Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics (2000). In 1996, Goldstein was named a MacArthur Fellow; she has taught at Columbia, Rutgers and Trinity College.

Goodwin, Philip L. (1885-1958)
Architecture: Architect
Architecture 1909-1912
Goodwin collaborated with Edward D. Stone on the design for the Museum of Modern Art at 11 West 53rd Street, which opened in 1939, and he became a Trustee and Vice Chairman of the museum's Board of Directors. Among his other significant works is the apartment building at 400 East 57th Street. Goodwin was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the Architectural League. He published several works on architecture, including French Provincial Architecture, Rooftrees and Brazil Builds.

Gordon, Mary (1949- )
Literature: Writer
BC '71
Mary Gordon is the author of four bestselling novels: Final Payments, The Company of Women, Men and Angels, and The Other Side. She has also published a book of novellas, The Rest of Life; a collection of stories, Temporary Shelter; and a book of essays, Good Boys and Dead Girls. Gordon has been awarded the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, the 1987 and 1997 O. Henry Prizes for best short story, a Radcliffe Institute fellowship and a Guggenheim fellowship. Gordon is Millicent McIntosh Professor of English and Writing at Barnard.

Gottlieb, Robert (1931- )
Literature: Editor, Publisher
CC '52
Gottlieb's discovered Joseph Heller and published Catch-22 (1961) for Simon & Schuster. He rose to the position of Vice President and Editor-in-Chief at the firm before becoming Editor-in-Chief at Alfred A. Knopf in 1968. Among Gottlieb's authors at Knopf were Toni Morrison, John Cheever, John LeCarré and Doris Lessing. He succeeded William Shawn as Editor of the New Yorker from 1987 to 1992. Gottlieb has edited five works and written a biography of George Balanchine (2004). He contributes book reviews to the Observer and The New York Times Book Review.

Gourevitch, Philip (1961- )
Literature: Writer
SoA '92
Although Gourevitch holds an MFA in fiction, he is best known for his nonfiction work. His first book, a chronicle of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, titled We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families (1998), won a National Book Critic's Circle Award. His other work, know for its strong, unabashed point of view, covers a variety of topics, from politics to true crime. A Cold Case (2001) follows a police investigator tracks an escaped killer for thirty years. Gourevitch writes for The New Yorker and edits The Paris Review.

Gugler, Eric (1889-1974)
Architect: Architecture
Architecture 1911
Gugler designed the expansion of the West Wing of the White House during FDR's presidency in 1934. Gugler's plans, which created the White House we know today, added an extension to the second floor, expanded the basement offices, and moved the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room to the east side of the building.

Gussow, Mel (1933-2005)
Theatre: Critic, Historian
Journalism School '56
Gussow was a longtime drama critic for The New York Times and classical music station WQXR. Gussow first brought attention to playwrights such as Sam Shepard, John Guare and David Mamet, and actors Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver. He also championed the ventures of experimental artists like Robert Wilson and Richard Foreman. He authored eight books, including a series of conversations with Harold Pinter (1994), Tom Stoppard (1995), Samuel Beckett (1996) and Arthur Miller (2002), and the biography Edward Albee: A Singular Journey (1999).

Gyllenhaal, Maggie (1977 - )
Film: Actress
CC '99
Maggie Gyllenhaal is a renowned American actress, and the daughter of Barnard alumna and famed screenplay writer, Naomi Foner. She has appeared in a range of films including, Mona Lisa Smile, Donnie Darko, Paris Je t'aime, The Dark Knight, and Sherrybaby, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Hall, Albert (1937- )
Film, Television: Actor
SoA '71
In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola cast Hall as Chief Phillips alongside Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now. He has appeared in Spike Lee's Malcolm X (1992), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Great White Hype (1996), Beloved (1998), and Ali (2001). Hall's television credits include movies Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987) and Separate But Equal (1991), among appearances on numerous shows.

Hammerstein II, Oscar (1895-1960)
Theatre, Music: Librettist, Lyricist, Producer
CC '16
In the 1930s, Hammerstein discarded the formulaic song-and-dance revue that had prevailed since the 1890s to develop the modern musical's combination of dance, music, dialog and complex characters. After hits such as Show Boat, he reunited with fellow Columbian Richard Rodgers to write Oklahoma! (1943), which enjoyed a record run of 2,248 performances on Broadway. Rogers and Hammerstein collaborated on Carousel (1945), the Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959), among others; songs include "Some Enchanted Evening," "Edelweiss," and "Shall We Dance?"

Harbach, Otto (1873-1963)
Theatre, Music: Librettist, Lyricist, Playwright
CC 1901?
Harbach contributed the book or lyrics to over fifty Broadway musical comedies between 1908 and 1936, including The Firefly (1912), Going Up (1917), The Desert Song (1926), and No, No Nanette (1925). Among his songs are "Giannina Mia," "Indian Love Call," "One Alone," "She Didn't Say Yes, She Didn't Say No," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and "Learn to Smile." Harbach collaborated with a number of noted composers, among them Columbia alumnus Oscar Hammerstein II. He also authored several Broadway plays, including the farce No More Blondes (1920) and the drama Up in Mabel's Room (1919).

Harcourt, Alfred (1881-1954)
Literature: Editor, Publisher
CC '04
Harcourt learned the ropes publishing at Henry Holt, recruiting writers such as Robert Frost and Carl Sandberg. A desire to publish "the new ideas with which the world was seething" motivated Harcourt to found his own firm in 1919, in partnership with Columbia classmate Donald Brace. Launched by the success of John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920), the firm published the masterpieces of such English and American authors as Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster and Sinclair Lewis.

Harmon, Arthur Loomis
Architecture: Architect
Architecture 1902
As a partner in Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Associates, Harmon was among the designers of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931. The architects received gold medals from the Architectural League, the American Institute of Architects, and the Fifth Avenue Association for their monumental feat. Harmon's firm was also responsible for the 60-story building at 500 Fifth Avenue (1930), the trapezoidal Rockefeller Center-style MONY Tower at 1740 Broadway (1950) and the American Brands Building near Grand Central Station (1967). Harmon's most significant solo work was the design of the Shelton Towers Hotel at 525 Lexington Avenue in 1924, which at thirty-four stories was then the tallest hotel in the world.

Hart, Lorenz (1895-1943)
Theatre, Music: Lyricist
Journalism 1914-16
Hart collaborated for twenty-four years with Richard Rodgers, moving from their Columbia Varsity Shows of 1920, 1921 and 1923 to their first hit song, "Manhattan," in 1925. The late 20s brought a string of Broadway successes- among them A Connecticut Yankee (1927) and Ever Green (1930). The Depression prompted the pair to move to Hollywood, where they created dozens of movie musicals such as Love me Tonight, popularizing memorable songs such as "Blue Moon" and "Isn't It Romantic?" Rodgers and Hart are perhaps best remembered for musicals written following their return to Broadway, including Babes in Arms (1937), which featured songs "My Funny Valentine" and "The Lady is a Tramp."

Hatfield, Hurd (1917-1998)
Film, Theatre: Actor

Hatfield's performances include the 1945 film version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, with Donna Reed and Angela Lansbury, and his role as Pontius Pilate in the 1961 King of Kings. He is known for his ability to portray villains, such as in The Boston Strangler (1968). Hatfield also played in a number of Broadway productions, including Twelfth Night (1941) with Yul Brynner, Lawrence Olivier's Venus Observed (1952), Tennessee Williams' Camino Real (1953) and John Gielgud's production of Much Ado About Nothing (1959).

Heilbrun, Carolyn (1926-2003)
Literature: Writer
GSAS '51, PhD '59
Heilbrun kept her penname, Amanda Cross, secret until she feared charges of academic dishonesty at Columbia. Her 1981 mystery, Death in a Tenured Position, criticizes university politics; Heilbrun retired from the university in protest of a female colleague's denied tenure application. Among her fourteen mysteries are The James Joyce Murder (1967), No Word from Winifred (1986), and The Edge of Doom (2002). Heilbrun's scholarly work includes Writing a Woman's Life (1988) and Toward a Recognition of Androgyny: Aspects of Male and Female in Literature (1973). She served as president of the Modern Language Association and directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She won Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Radcliffe and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, as well as the Nero Wolfe Award for Mystery Fiction, the scroll from the Mystery Writers of America, the Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award and the Radcliffe Graduate Medal.

Heller, Joseph (1923-1999)
Literature: Writer
GSAS '49
Heller's sixty flights over France and Italy during WWII helped reverse the glamorous image of war that had "brainwashed" him at home. Heller earned his masters degree in English at Columbia and studied at Oxford as a Fulbright Scholar. After publishing a story in the Atlantic Monthly, Heller spent eight years developing his military experiences into the wartime satire, Catch-22 (1961). The novel's title refers a fictional Air Force rule, whereby characters crazed by war are deemed sane, and therefore eligible to fly missions, as soon as they ask to be grounded. The six novels and three plays Heller published after Catch-22 are marked by a similar black humor, acerbic commentary and cutting satire.

Hellman, Lillian (1905-1984)
Theatre, Literature: Playwright, Memoirist
Barnard Summer Sessions 1924, Honorary Alum – Lit Department, '76
Hellman was known for her unflinching insight into individual and social psychology. Fourteen her plays were produced on Broadway; The Children's Hour (1934) depicted two teachers accused of lesbianism in nineteenth-century Edinburgh, and The Little Foxes (1939) and Another Part of the Forest (1946) were both set in the American South after the Civil War. She examined World War II's impact on America in Watch on the Rhine (1941) and The Searching Wind (1944). Toys in the Attic (1960) and Candide (1957) were each nominated for Tony Awards. Hellman published three popular memoirs: An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973) and Scoundrel Time (1976).

Hewlett, James Monroe (1868-1941)
Visual Art, Architecture: Architect and Muralist
Architecture, 1890
Hewlett's firm, Lord & Hewlett, designed buildings in the greater New York area, including the Brooklyn Hospital (1920) and the Senator Clark mansion on Fifth Avenue. Hewlett is best remembered, however, as a muralist. His murals hang at the Willard Straight Memorial at Cornell, the Elihu Root Memorial in Washington, DC and the Veteran's Memorial Hall in the Bronx County Court Building. A series of eight Hewlett murals decorate the Bank of New York building. Hewlett's George Washington Bicentennial frieze, Washington and His Friends at Mount Vernon (1932), still hangs at Mount Vernon. Hewlett was President of the Architectural League of New York, Vice President of the American Institute of Architects and head of the Society of Mural Painters. He also served as director of the Fontainebleau School in Paris and the American Academy in Rome.

Highsmith, Patricia (1921-1995)
Literature: Writer
BC '42
Writing and Barnard College gave Highsmith a "taste of freedom" from her troubled adolescence. Some of her first short stories were published in the Barnard Quarterly, and another, which its editors rejected as too disturbing, became an O. Henry Memorial Award Prize winner in 1946. Mentored by Truman Capote, Highsmith published her first novel, Strangers on a Train; Alfred Hitchcock quickly adapted the book to film. Highsmith was a pioneer in lesbian fiction with The Price of Salt (1948). One of her most popular works is The Talented Mr. Ripley (1954), the first in a series of five novels. Ripley was made into the film starring Matt Damon in 1999.

Hill, Lauryn (1975- )
Music: Singer, Songwriter
CC '96-'97
As a teenager, Hill joined with Wyclef Jean and Prakazrel Michel to form The Fugees. Their remake of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" held number one for five weeks in 1996 and won a Grammy for best R&B vocal, while The Score took the award for best rap album. Hill's first solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) combines Motown, soul and hip-hop influences, and includes collaborations with Carlos Santana and Mary J. Blige. The album won five Grammy award, including best R&B song for "Doo Wop (That Thing)".

Holden, Donald (1931- )
Visual Art: Painter, Sculptor, Art Historian
CC '51
Holden spent every spare minute of his college career in New York's museums and galleries. Dissatisfied as a sculptor, he found his forte in small watercolors that seek intimacy with the viewer. Yellowstone Fire XIX (1991) and Monhegan Morning III (1993) have been featured in retrospectives at London's Curwen Gallery and at the Butler Institute of American Art. Holden has written over twenty books on art history and technique, including Whistler Landscapes and Seascapes (1969), which was selected for the White House Library.

Holmes, John Clellon (1926-1988)
Literature: Fiction Writer
CC '49
In 1952, Holmes propelled the phrase "Beat Generation" into the mainstream when The New York Times Magazine quoted his reference to Jack Kerouac's term. His best-known work, the novel Go, is a candid chronicle of bohemian characters modeled after Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. In addition to novels, Holmes has written two volumes of poetry and a volume of travel essays. He was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976 and the Alexander Cappon Prize in 1978. Holmes was a professor at the University of Arkansas for ten years.

Horton, Jr., Edward Everett (1886-1970)
Film, Theatre: Actor
GSAS '09
Horton left Columbia to make it on Broadway. After five years with various stock companies, he went to California and won fame when he played an aging bachelor in Springtime for Henry in 1932. Horton appeared in over one hundred films from the 20s through the 40s, often in quirky character and sidekick roles opposite the likes of Cary Grant, John Payne and James Stewart. Among his films are Trouble in Paradise (1932), The Merry Widow (1934), The Gay Divorcee (1934), Shall We Dance (1937) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944).

Howard, Richard (1929- )
Literature: Poet, Critic, Translator
CC '51
Howard is credited with introducing French poetry and twentieth-century French fiction to English-speaking audiences. His translation of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal won the American Book Award in 1983. His poetry collection, Untitled Subjects, was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. His fourteen other poetry collections include Quantities (1962), Fellow Feelings (1976) and Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003. Howard's poetry has won the Levinson Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters medal, and a Los Angeles Times Book Award. His translations have garnered a PEN American Center medal (1986) and a France-America Foundation Award (1987). Howard was honored with the National Book Critics Circle's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. He teaches in the Writing Division of the School of the Arts.

Hoyt, Helen (1887-1972)
Literature: Poetry
BC '09
Hoyt worked as an associate editor of Poetry, and published widely. Her poetry collections include Apples Here in My Basket (1924), Leaves of Wild Grape (1929) and Poems of Amis (1946). Hoyt's work appears in several anthologies, including The New Poetry (1917) and The Second Book of Modern Verse (1920). Poems include "Ellis Park," "Memory," and "Lamp Post."

Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
Literature, Theatre: Poet, Playwright, Novelist
School of Mines ('21-'22)
Harlem Renaissance poet and playwright Langston Hughes was dubbed the "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race" for his representations of the African American experience. He was already a published poet when he entered Columbia. The rhythms of jazz music infuse poetry collections such as The Weary Blues and other Poems (1926) and scripts for the musical theatre, such as Mulatto (1935). Hughes' first novel, Not Without Laughter won the 1930 Harman Gold Medal. Hughes oeuvre includes numerous poems, eleven plays and volumes of prose, including the "Simple" books. A lifetime ambassador of American culture, Hughes was instrumental in Franklin Roosevelt's Federal Theater Project. He traveled the United States, founded numerous theatre groups and lectured on a two-month State Department tour of Europe.

Hurston, Zora Neale (1891?-1960)
Literature: Writer and Anthropologist
BC '24, GSAS '35
As an undergraduate, Hurston studied anthropology under Franz Boaz and established herself as a voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Her work expresses the richness of African-American culture independent of white culture and racism. Hurston won two Guggenheim fellowships to study African American folklore in the South and the Caribbean; her scholarship would fuel both her scholarly and creative writing. Mules and Men, a major anthropological work, was published in 1935. Their Eyes Were Watching God exhibits Hurston's mastery of African American folk culture. Hurston co-authored the play Mule Bone with Langston Hughes. Her autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road, was published in 1942.

Hurwitz, Tom (1947 - )
Film, TV: Cinematographer, Director
CC '68
Over the course of his thirty-year career in documentary filmmaking for television and the cinema, Hurwitz has won two Emmies (recently, Franklin in 2002) and a Sundance Award for Best Cinematography on Wildman Blues, the documentary about Woody Allen's jazz career. Hurwitz has photographed films that have won Academy Awards and nominations, most recently Dance Maker (1998). Other projects include: Harlan County USA, Down and Out in America, Liberty, Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero, I Have a Dream, and Questioning Faith. Hurwitz has also directed several films, including Bombs will Make the Rainbow Break (1983), which won the Cine Golden Eagle

Jaffe, Irma B. (? -)
Visual Art: Art Historian
GS '58, GSAS, PhD '66
Jaffe entered Columbia after twenty years of raising a family. She became a curator at the Whitney Museum of Art and established Fordham University's fine arts department in 1968. Fowler has written a number of works on art history, numerous articles, and she wrote and narrated the television series, "Project Now: Introduction to Art History." Jaffe is a consultant for the Italian Encyclopedia Institute of New York. She has been honored with an Order of Merit by the Republic of Italy for her contributions to cross-cultural exchange.

Janeway, Elizabeth Hall (1913-2005)
Literature: Writer, Critic
BC '35
Janeway first made her mark as a bestselling novelist with titles such as The Walsh Girls (1943), Daisy Kenyon (1943), Leaving Home (1953) and Accident (1963). Janeway also authored several books for young readers and edited collections on writing. In the 1970s, she turned to feminist nonfiction and developed friendships with Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and Kate Millet. Among her published writings are Man's World, Woman's Place: A Study of Social Mythology (1971), Powers of the Weak (1980) and Improper Behavior (1987). Janeway has served as president of the Author's Guild and as a judge for the National Book Awards and the Pulitzer Prize.

Janowitz, Tama (1957- )
Literature: Writer
SoA '86
Janowitz's debut postmodernist novel, American Dad, won praise for its fearlessness and satirical humor—qualities that have come characterize her work. Janowitz's four other novels include Slave of New York (1981), for which Janowitz also wrote the screenplay, and A Certain Age (1999). Her stories have appeared in the Paris Review, among other publications, and she is included in David Remnick's anthology, Wonderful Town: New York Stories from "The New Yorker" (2000). Janowitz's awards and honors include support from the NEA.

Jarmusch, Jim (1953- )
Film: Director, Screenwriter
CC '75
Jarmusch became a leader in independent cinema with his first film, Stranger than Paradise (1984), which won a Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and was named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. Jarmusch, who is influenced by French New Wave directors like Jean-Luc Godard, explores the contradiction between the American Dream and reality for those on the fringe. His other titles include Down By Law (1986), starring Tom Waits, Dead Man (1995), starring Johnny Depp, and Coffee and Cigarettes (2003). In 2005, Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray, won the Grand Prize at Cannes.

Jong, Erica Mann (1942- )
Literature: Writer
BC '63, GSAS '65, SoA 1969-70
Jong abandoned her pre-med studies at Barnard to immerse herself in Shakespeare, Pope, Blake and Keats. In an era when there were no women's studies courses, Jong looked to poets like Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich for her literary heritage. Jong wrote her first novel, Fear of Flying (1973), after releasing several award-winning poetry collections, including Fruits and Vegetables (1971) and Half-Lives (1973). Fear of Flying generated a storm of controversy for its explicit exploration of female sexual fantasies; it has since sold over 11 million copies worldwide. Jong followed her debut novel with How to Save Your Own Life (1977) and Parachutes and Kisses (1984), which depict women in search of self-worth and creative fulfillment. Among Jong's many honors is the United Nations Award for Excellence in Literature.

Jordan, June (1936-2002)
Literature: Poet, Writer
BC 1953-1957
Harlem-born June Jordan emerged during the Civil Rights Movement as a voice of women, the disenfranchised and the disadvantaged. Among her collections of poetry are Soulscript: Afro-American Poetry (1970), which was a National Book Award finalist, New Days: Poems of Exile and Return (1973), and Kissing God Good-Bye: New Poems (1991-1997). Her children's books include National Book Award finalist His Own Where (1971) and the poetry collection Who Look at Me, in which Jordan completed an unfinished Langston Hughes project. Jordon's play, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995), won the Critics Award and the Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. Jordan was a professor of Afro-American Studies and of Women's Studies, and founded Voice of the Children, a creative writing program.

Josephson, Matthew (1899-1978)
Literature: Writer
CC '20
After dabbling in poetry and working on the Dadaist journals Secession and Broom in 1920s Paris, Josephson found his forte in historical biography. His first biography, Zola and His Time (1928) was celebrated for its rich style. His portraits of Jay Gould, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie in The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861-1901, The Politicos (1938) and The President Makers (1940) are considered important reflections of historical attitudes. Josephson won a Francis Parkman Prize in 1960 for his biography of Thomas Edison and a Van Wyck Brooks Prize for his biography of Al Smith. His two memoirs, Life Among the Surrealists (1962) and Infidel in the Temple (1967) reflect the social concerns that drove Josephson's writing.

Julavits, Heidi (1968 - )
Literature: Author, Editor
SoA '96
Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in Esquire, The New York Times Book Review, Glamour, Time, and McSweeney's Quarterly. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003), and The Uses of Enchantment (2006).

Kahn, Michael
Theatre: Director, Artistic Director, Educator
CC '61
As artistic director of The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Michael Kahn has directed numerous Shakespeare productions, as well as classical plays and modern classics. Kahn has won five Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Director. Highlights of his Broadway credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Show Boat, for which Kahn earned a Tony nomination. Joseph Papp invited Kahn to direct Measure for Measure in Central Park after Kahn's Broadway and Off-Broadway successes. Kahn also directed the drama division of the Juilliard School until 2006, where he taught for more than 30 years. Among his former students are William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Kline, Kelly McGillis, Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams. For his teaching, Kahn was awarded the John Houseman Award in 1988.

Kalish, Gilbert (1935 - )
Music: Pianist
CC '56
Gil Kalish is a famed pianist who has played with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players since 1969 and is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the great mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. As an educator he is Leading Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th Century masterworks and new compositions. In 1995 he was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago Music Department for distinguished service to the music of our time.

Kander, John (1927- )
Music: Composer
GSAS '54
Kander is best known as half of the composer-lyricist team of Kander and Ebb. Their first big success, Cabaret, won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Score in 1966. The duo's other Tony-winning musicals include 70, Girls, 70 (1971), Chicago (1975, choreographed by Bob Fosse), Woman of the Year (1981), and The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). Songs such as "Maybe This Time," "All That Jazz," and "Nowadays" have showcased the talent of Broadway stars such as Liza Minnelli and Barbara Streisand. Kander has been honored with two Emmys, a Grammy, three Tonys, the President's Award of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theater.

Kaufman, George S. (1889-1961)
Theatre: Playwright, Director

Kaufman, known for his quick wit, wrote oft-quoted one-liners, such as the prolific insults fired off by the title character in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939). He collaborated on forty-five Broadway productions, of which twenty-seven were hits. Kaufman won Pulitzer Prizes for the political satire Of Thee I Sing (1932) and You Can't Take it With You (1937). Among Kaufman's oft-revived plays are The Royal Family (1927), Once in a Lifetime (1930), Dinner at Eight (1932), and Merrily We Roll Along (1934). Kaufman's work outside of comedy includes directing the original productions of Guys and Dolls, which won him a Tony Award, and Of Mice and Men. He was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972.

Kazin, Alfred (1915-1998)
Literature: Critic
GSAS '58
Kazin was a writer and critic of American literature who emphasized cultural and historical context. His 1942 survey, On Native Grounds, reinterpreted writers from William Dean Howells to William Faulkner. Later works of criticism include The Inmost Leaf (1955) and An American Procession (1984). Kazin published several memoirs, beginning with his childhood as a Russian-Jewish Brooklyn immigrant in A Walker in the City (1951), New York Jew (1978) and Our New York (1990). He served as the literary editor of The New Republic. Among his honors are the George Polk Memorial Award for Criticism, the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award and a Modern Language Association Medal. He was a Guggenheim, Rockefeller and National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellow.

Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971)
Visual Art: Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator
Architecture 1900-1902
Kent began painting to assist his mother with the china-making business they ran after his father died. Although a practicing architect, Kent is best known for his illustrations of industrial workers, his own artic travels and works of literature such as Shakespeare, Moby Dick, The Canterbury Tales, Candide and Beowulf. A communist, Kent won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1967 and gave the money to the people of North Vietnam. Among his first critically acclaimed paintings was "Winter" (1907); "The Seiners" (1910-13) was the first modern American painting to be hung in the Frick Collection. Kent's oil paintings later appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum, the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad.

Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969)
Literature: Writer
CC '40-'42
Kerouac spent two years at Columbia, befriending fellow Beat Generation icon and Columbian Allen Ginsberg, before an injury cost Kerouac his football scholarship. Kerouac's most famous work is the novel On the Road, which he wrote over a frenzied three-week period in 1950. This autobiographical account of cross-country travels defined a generation of American youth who felt stifled by the conformity of Post-War America. Kerouac's subsequent works include The Dharma Bums (1958), which reflects his exploration of Buddhism, and The Subterraneans (1958). His volumes of poetry include Mexico City Blues: Two Hundred Forty-Two Choruses (1959), and Someday You'll Be Lying (1968).

Kimberly Peirce (1967)
Film: Director
School of the Arts '96
Peirce grew up in a trailer park before making her way to the University of Chicago, where a degree in English and Japanese Literature helped her move to Kobe, Japan. She enrolled in Columbia upon her return to the United States. Peirce is best known for her two controversial feature films. Boys Don't Cry (1999)--inspired by the rape and murder of transgendered Brandon Teena in Falls City, Nebraska--began as Peirce's MFA thesis. The film won nearly universal critical acclaim as well as awards throughout the country. In 2008, Peirce directed Stop-Loss, which follows a Marine who is forced to return to Iraq despite completing his tour of duty.

Kirkland, Jack (1902-1969 )
Theatre, Film: Playwright, Actor, Director
CC '19-'21
Kirkland's 1933 adaptation of Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell's novel set in the Georgia backwater, ran on Broadway for seven years. Kirkland wrote or contribut