This is a list of people associated with the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science, a school within New York University (NYU) founded in 1886 by Henry Mitchell MacCracken.
Notable faculty Saul Bellow Writer Professor 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature Harold Bloom Literary critic Berg Professor of English 1985 MacArthur Fellow Faye D. Ginsburg Scholar Professor of Anthropology 1994 MacArthur Fellow Galway Kinnell Poet Professor 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Wassily Leontief Economist Professor 1975–1999 1973 Nobel Prize in Economics Otto Loewi Pharmacologist Professor 1940–1961 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Ruth Watson Lubic Scholar Adjunct professor 1993 MacArthur Fellow Paule Marshall Writer Professor of English 1992 MacArthur Fellow Robert S. Mulliken Physicist, chemist Professor 1926–1928 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Rita P. Wright Scholar Professor of Anthropology 1988 MacArthur Fellow
Alumni (*did not graduate)
Nobel laureates Julius Axelrod Biochemist M.Sc. 1941 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Friedrich Hayek Economist Postgraduate, 1923–1924 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics Frederick Reines Physicist Ph.D. 1944 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics Clifford Shull Physicist Ph.D. 1941 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics
Pulitzer Prize winners Dorothy Rabinowitz Journalist and commentator Ph.D. 1960 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary James Ford Rhodes Historian 1865–* 1918 Pulitzer Prize for History for History of the Civil War, 1861–1865 Harold C. Schonberg Music critic, journalist M.A., 1939 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism John Patrick Shanley Playwright M.A., 1977 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Neil Simon Playwright 1944–1945* 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Lost in Yonkers)
Other Gloria Allred Feminist, lawyer M.A., 1971 David Antin Poet M.A., 1966 PEN Los Angeles Award for Poetry Rita Mae Brown Author M.A., 1964 Rubyfruit Jungle Lawrence Joseph DeNardisPolitician M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1989 United States House of Representatives Stavros Dimas Politician M.A., 1969 European Commissioner for the Environment William Henry Draper, Jr. Diplomat M.A., 1917 Under secretary of War and the Army Robert Patrick John Finn Diplomat M.A. U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Joseph Heller Author M.A. in English 1945 – * Catch-22 Bernard Herrmann Composer Student under Percy Grainger at NYU Academy Award 1941, All That Money Can Buy Heather M. Hodges Diplomat M.A. U.S. ambassador to Moldova Rush HoltPolitician M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1981 United States House of Representatives (1999–) Meir Kahane Founder of the U.S. Jewish Defense League M.A., 1957 Leader of the Kach political party in the Israeli Knesset Elodie Lauten Composer M.A., 1986 Evelyn Lear Soprano Grammy Award 1966 for her performance of Berg's Wozzeck John McGrath Artistic director Ph.D., 1999 Artistic director and CEO of the Manchester International Festival Raymond Joseph McGrathPolitician M.A., 1968 United States House of Representatives (1981–1993)Janet MockWriterM.A. 2006GLAAD Media Stephen F. Kolzak Award 2020, Shorty Award for Best in Activism 2016 Leonard Peikoff Philosopher M.A., 1957, Ph.D., 1964 Leading advocate of objectivism B. Caroll Reece M.A., 1916 United States House of Representatives (1921–1961) J.D. Salinger Author Coursework* Catcher in the Rye Agnes Varis Entrepreneur M.A., 1977, M.B.A., 1979 Founder of Aegis PharmaceuticalsOcean VuongAuthorM.F.A., 2016MacArthur "Genius" Grant (2019), Whiting Award 2016, T. S. Eliot Prize 2017 Judith Weis Marine biologist M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1967 Saul Williams Poet M.A., 1995 Amethyst Rock Star John Woodruff Athlete M.A., 1941 Olympic gold medalist, 1936 Minoru Yamasaki Architect M.A., 1951 Works include the World Trade Center Mary Carlin Yates Diplomat M.A., Ph.D. U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Ghana (*did not graduate)
References
External links New York University