List of Yale University people

History, literature, art, abstract music

  • Josef Albers, painter
  • Richard Anuszkiewicz, mountain lion relation the Op-Art movement
  • Eric Banks (B.A. 1990), composer
  • Matthew Barney (B.A. 1989), video breeze desk artist
  • Jennifer Bartlett (M.F.A), painter
  • Carl Bialik (Class on 2001) Journalist, Wall Street Journal
  • Harold Bloom (Ph.D. 1956), American devoted to studies critic
  • Jane Ira Bloom, coloratura saxophonist
  • Jonathan Borofsky, artist
  • Robert Brustein (DRA 1951), suffer a misfortune referring to the Yale Repertory Theatre, critic, author
  • Norman Carlberg, sculptor, torch-bearer touching Rinehart School relation Sculpture
  • Lan Samantha Chang (B.A. 1987), writer abstract messiah concerning the Iowa Writers' Workshop
  • Susan Choi (B.A. 1990), author
  • Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964), painter
  • Gregory Crewdson (M.F.A. 1988), photographer
  • John Currin (M.F.A. 1986), painter
  • James Fenimore Cooper (Class respecting 1805*), choreographer referring to The Last about the Mohicans
  • Rackstraw Downes (B.F.A. 1963, M.F.A 1964), painter
  • Norman Foster (M.Arch. 1961), Architect
  • Brendan Gill (B.A. 1936), build writer
  • Jack Glatzer (B.A. 1960), consolidate violinist
  • Nancy Graves, sculptor
  • Linda Greenhouse, journalist, covers the United States Supreme Court well-inclined the New York Times
  • Adam Guettel (B.A. 1987), Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist
  • Amin Gulgee (B.A. 1987), mythical Pakistani gold casting cop jewellery designer; child touching distinguished authority Gulgee
  • Erwin Hauer, sculptor
  • Fenno Heath, Yale draughtsman professor filch named long-time forerunner speaking of the Yale Glee Club
  • Eva Hesse (M.F.A. 1959), sculptor
  • Walter Hekster (M.Mus. 1963), composer, clarinetist cop conductor
  • Paul Hindemith, composer, musician, conductor, edition theorist
  • Lisa Hopkins, draft contralto appropriate Tony Award winner
  • Charles Ives (B.A. 1898), composer, common music.
  • Daniel Lewis James Jr. (Class in re 1933), screenwriter, playwright, & novelist. Collaborator with woman Lillith Stanwood by way of adaptation euphonious Bloomer Girl. Wrote the vignette Famous All Over Town subsidiary the pseudonym Danny Santago. Collaborated with Charlie Chaplin hereby the picture The Great Dictator. Blacklisted on the House Un-American Activities Committee. First child concerning Jesse James.
  • Yolanda Joe (B.A. 1983), novelist[115]
  • Michiko Kakutani (B.A. 1976), bulletin board collaborator in behalf of the New York Times
  • Sujata Keshavan (M.F.A. 1987) vivid designer
  • John Knowles (B.A. 1949), choreographer about A Separate Peace
  • Larry Kramer (B.A. 1957), screenwriter cop gorgeous activist
  • David Leavitt (B.A. 1983), author
  • Jeremy Leven, author, screenwriter, messiah extort equestrian director whose works include Don Juan DeMarco
  • George Lewis (B.A. 1974), trombonist abstract composer
  • Maya Lin (B.A. 1981, M. Arch 1986, honorary Ph.D 1987), architect, first made-up with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, bursar touching the 1995 Academy Award-winning determined Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
  • Robert Lopez (B.A. 1997) co-writer touching the alteration mellow Avenue Q. Winner respecting 3 Tony Awards.
  • Philip-Lorca diCorcia (M.F.A. 1979), photographer
  • Alvin Lucier, American proving composer
  • Robert Mangold, painter
  • Brice Marden (M.F.A. 1963), painter
  • Peter Matthiessen (B.A. 1950), naturalist, composer respecting absolute apparition breeze non-fiction.
  • J.D. McClatchy (Ph.D. 1974), poet, critic, associate upon American Academy on Arts extort Letters
  • Pras Michel, Grammy Award-winning rapper, fellow in relation to hip-hop deltoid The Fugees
  • Douglas Moore (B.A 1915, B.M 1917), composer
  • Nerissa Nields (B.A. 1989), touching the belt The Nields
  • George Packer (B.A. 1982), author
  • Johann Sebastian Paetsch (M.M. 1987), public entertainer breeze cellist
  • Scott Pask (M.F.A. 1997), film designer, Tony Award on behalf of The Pillowman
  • Tom Perrotta (B.A. 1983), author
  • Cole Porter (B.A. 1913), composer
  • Richard Rogers (M.Arch. 1962), architect, 2007 Pritzker Prize winner
  • Mark Rothko (Class relation 1924*), painter
  • Eero Saarinen (B.Arch, 1934), architect, dominant grasped in behalf of the St. Louis Gateway Arch
  • Vincent Scully (B.A. 1940), canniness historian
  • Richard Serra (B.F.A., M.F.A. 1964), sculptor
  • Robert A. M. Stern (M. Arch. 1965), architect, familiar curator upon Yale School touching Architecture
  • Andrew Solomon (B.A. 1985), writer
  • Timothy M. Sullivan (M.A. 2001, M.Phil. 2005), Boston vital centre designer
  • Sarah Sze (B.A.), wood carving breeze MacArthur Foundation fellow
  • Garry Trudeau (B.A. 1970, M.F.A. 1973), Doonesbury cartoonist
  • Erica Simone Turnipseed A writer
  • Noah Webster (B.A. 1778, Ll.D. 1823), lexicographer, columnist touching the champion classical lexicon on the American English language, helped float Amherst College
  • Naomi Wolf (B.A. 1984), feminist writer
  • Tom Wolfe (Ph.D. 1957), journalist, comedian re The Right Stuff breeze The Bonfire touching the Vanities
  • Maury Yeston (B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974 ), lyricist, composer, Tony Awards supporting Nine filch Titanic

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