The university's main library is named for an alumnus, author James A. Michener.
Notable Syracuse alumni include authors Shirley Jackson and Joyce Carol Oates, dancer-choreographer Paul Taylor, football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
The University of East Anglia, whose famous creative writing course's alumni include authors Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Rose Tremain, took 16th place.
Notable alumni include author Bobbie Ann Mason.
Below are three examples of the impact of Peoples-uni on each of three alumni (co-authors of this paper).
"This is, I think, one of the lowest points in Harvard's recent history — maybe Harvard's history, period," Richard Bradley, a Harvard alumnus and author of the book "Harvard Rules," a look at the tenure of a former university president, Lawrence H. Summers, wrote on his blog.
The University of California at Irvine claims alumni like Alice Sebold, author of the best-selling first novel "The Lovely Bones" and a memoir, "Lucky David Benioffff, the writer of several lucrative screenplays, like the forthcoming "Stay," for which he was paid $1.8 million; and Glen David Gold, whose debut as a novelist was "Carter Beats the Devil".
Notable alumni: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sam Waterston, Curtis Sittenfeld (author of bestselling Prep).
Word that it was shutting down after losing its $400,000 annual subsidy drew outrage from professors, students, authors and alumni, and from the sons of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and of the black historian John Hope Franklin.
Notable alumni include best-selling authors Aaron Klein and Chaim Potok.
Together, the young men told an all-too-familiar story of male bravado and rape culture intertwined with the strange and perverted customs of a New England institution whose alumni include famous politicians, authors, and bankers.
