Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded "to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." They usually last a year, averaging about $35,000 in recent times.
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Edward Abbey |
Author |
29-Jan-1927 |
14-Mar-1989 |
Desert Solitaire |
| Walter Abish |
Author |
24-Dec-1931 |
|
Alphabetical Africa |
| André Aciman |
Author |
2-Jan-1951 |
|
Out of Egypt |
| Bruce Ackerman |
Scholar |
19-Aug-1943 |
|
We the People |
| Diane Ackerman |
Author |
7-Oct-1948 |
|
A Natural History of the Senses |
| Louis Adamic |
Author |
23-Mar-1899 |
4-Sep-1951 |
Laughing in the Jungle |
| Alice Adams |
Novelist |
14-Aug-1926 |
27-May-1999 |
Superior Women |
| Ansel Adams |
Photographer |
20-Feb-1902 |
22-Apr-1984 |
Yosemite photographer |
| Léonie Adams |
Poet |
9-Dec-1899 |
27-Jun-1988 |
Those Not Elect |
| George A. Akerlof |
Economist |
17-Jun-1940 |
|
Asymmetric markets |
| Maryanne Amacher |
Composer |
25-Feb-1943 |
22-Oct-2009 |
Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear) |
| Laurie Anderson |
Performance Artist |
5-Jun-1947 |
|
Tape bow violinist and performance artist |
| Christian Anfinsen |
Chemist |
26-Mar-1916 |
14-May-1995 |
Protein structure and folding |
| George Antheil |
Composer |
8-Jul-1900 |
12-Feb-1959 |
Le Ballet mécanique |
| Max Apple |
Author |
22-Oct-1941 |
|
I Love Gootie |
| Diane Arbus |
Photographer |
14-Mar-1923 |
26-Jul-1971 |
Influential photographer |
| Daniel I. Arnon |
Biologist |
14-Nov-1910 |
20-Dec-1994 |
Photophosphorylation |
| Margaret Atwood |
Author |
18-Nov-1939 |
|
The Handmaid's Tale |
| Milton Babbitt |
Composer |
10-May-1916 |
29-Jan-2011 |
Music for Synthesizer |
| Kenneth Bainbridge |
Physicist |
27-Jul-1904 |
14-Jul-1996 |
Director of the Trinity atomic test |
| James Baldwin |
Novelist |
2-Aug-1924 |
30-Nov-1987 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain |
| Russell Banks |
Author |
28-Mar-1940 |
|
The Sweet Hereafter |
| Amiri Baraka |
Author |
7-Oct-1934 |
|
Hates Whitey |
| Benjamin Barber |
Scholar |
2-Aug-1939 |
|
Jihad vs. McWorld |
| Donald Barthelme |
Author |
7-Apr-1931 |
23-Jul-1989 |
Come Back, Dr. Caligari |
| Leonard Baskin |
Sculptor |
15-Aug-1922 |
3-Jun-2000 |
Sculptor and printmaker |
| Walter Jackson Bate |
Critic |
23-May-1918 |
26-Jul-1999 |
Samuel Johnson |
| Gregory Bateson |
Anthropologist |
9-May-1904 |
4-Jul-1980 |
Steps to an Ecology of Mind |
| Ann Beattie |
Author |
8-Sep-1947 |
|
Chilly Scenes of Winter |
| Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Educator |
c. 1955 |
|
Corporate governance scholar |
| Daniel Bell |
Sociologist |
10-May-1919 |
25-Jan-2011 |
The End of Ideology |
| Saul Bellow |
Novelist |
10-Jun-1915 |
5-Apr-2005 |
The Adventures of Augie March |
| Stephen Vincent Benét |
Author |
22-Jul-1898 |
13-Mar-1943 |
John Brown's Body |
| Eric Bentley |
Critic |
14-Sep-1916 |
|
The Life of the Drama |
| Ben Bernanke |
Economist |
13-Dec-1953 |
|
Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Wendell Berry |
Author |
5-Aug-1934 |
|
A Place on Earth |
| John Berryman |
Poet |
25-Oct-1914 |
7-Jan-1972 |
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet |
| Lipman Bers |
Mathematician |
22-May-1914 |
29-Oct-1993 |
Riemann surfaces |
| Doris Betts |
Author |
4-Jun-1932 |
21-Apr-2012 |
Souls Raised from the Dead |
| James Billington |
Historian |
1-Jun-1929 |
|
13th Librarian of Congress |
| Kai Bird |
Historian |
1951 |
|
American Prometheus |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
Poet |
8-Feb-1911 |
6-Oct-1979 |
North & South |
| Ran Blake |
Pianist |
20-Apr-1935 |
|
Third Stream composer |
| Marc Blitzstein |
Composer |
2-Mar-1905 |
22-Jan-1964 |
The Cradle Will Rock |
| Konrad Bloch |
Scientist |
21-Jan-1912 |
15-Oct-2000 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Nicolaas Bloembergen |
Physicist |
11-Mar-1920 |
|
Nonlinear optics |
| Harold Bloom |
Critic |
11-Jul-1930 |
|
Literary critic, Yale professor |
| Robert Bly |
Poet |
23-Dec-1926 |
|
Iron John: A Book About Men |
| William Bolcom |
Composer |
26-May-1938 |
|
Songs of Innocence and of Experience |
| Wayne C. Booth |
Critic |
22-Feb-1921 |
10-Oct-2005 |
The Rhetoric of Fiction |
| Edgar Bowers |
Poet |
2-Mar-1924 |
4-Feb-2000 |
For Louis Pasteur |
| Paul Bowles |
Author |
30-Dec-1910 |
18-Nov-1999 |
The Sheltering Sky |
| Paul D. Boyer |
Chemist |
31-Jul-1918 |
|
ATP process |
| Kay Boyle |
Author |
19-Feb-1902 |
27-Dec-1992 |
The Underground Woman |
| Bertram N. Brockhouse |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1918 |
13-Oct-2003 |
Triple-axis crystal spectrometry |
| Wallace R. Brode |
Chemist |
12-Jun-1900 |
10-Aug-1974 |
Absorption spectra of dyes |
| Richard H. Brodhead |
Educator |
1947 |
|
President, Duke University |
| Joseph Brodsky |
Poet |
24-May-1940 |
28-Jan-1996 |
"Social parasite" turned Poet Laureate |
| Richard Brookhiser |
Journalist |
23-Feb-1955 |
|
National Review |
| Cleanth Brooks |
Critic |
16-Oct-1906 |
10-May-1994 |
The Well Wrought Urn |
| Fred Brooks |
Computer Programmer |
19-Apr-1931 |
|
Father of the IBM System 360 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
Poet |
7-Jun-1917 |
3-Dec-2000 |
Annie Allen |
| Earle Brown |
Composer |
26-Dec-1926 |
2-Jul-2002 |
Developed open-form scores |
| Rosellen Brown |
Author |
12-May-1939 |
|
Before and After |
| Robert Brustein |
Educator |
21-Apr-1927 |
|
Founder, American Reportory Theatre |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Government |
28-Mar-1928 |
|
National Security Advisor, 1977-81 |
| James Lee Burke |
Novelist |
5-Dec-1936 |
|
Dave Robicheaux series |
| Walter Dean Burnham |
Scholar |
1930 |
|
Democracy in the Making |
| Frederick Busch |
Novelist |
1-Aug-1941 |
23-Feb-2006 |
Don't Tell Anyone |
| John Cage |
Composer |
5-Sep-1912 |
12-Aug-1992 |
Experimental composer |
| Hayden Carruth |
Poet |
3-Aug-1921 |
29-Sep-2008 |
Brothers, I Loved You All |
| Rachel Carson |
Scientist |
27-May-1907 |
14-Apr-1964 |
Mother of the environmental movement |
| Hodding Carter |
Journalist |
3-Feb-1907 |
4-Apr-1972 |
Delta Democrat-Times |
| R. V. Cassill |
Novelist |
17-May-1919 |
25-Mar-2002 |
Dr. Cobb's Game |
| Lionel Casson |
Scholar |
22-Jul-1914 |
18-Jul-2009 |
The Ancient Mariners |
| Thomas R. Cech |
Chemist |
8-Dec-1947 |
|
Proved enzyme role of RNA |
| Owen Chamberlain |
Physicist |
10-Jul-1920 |
28-Feb-2006 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Alfred Chandler |
Historian |
15-Sep-1918 |
9-May-2007 |
Business historian |
| Jerome Charyn |
Novelist |
13-May-1937 |
|
The Good Policeman |
| John Cheever |
Author |
27-May-1912 |
18-Jun-1982 |
The Enormous Radio |
| Alfred Chester |
Novelist |
7-Sep-1928 |
1-Aug-1971 |
The Exquisite Corpse |
| Noam Chomsky |
Linguist |
7-Dec-1928 |
|
Linguist, dissident intellectual |
| Steven Chu |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1948 |
|
US Secretary of Energy |
| John Clarke |
Physicist |
10-Feb-1942 |
|
Superconducting quantum interference |
| Stanley N. Cohen |
Biologist |
17-Feb-1935 |
|
Recombinant DNA |
| Leon N. Cooper |
Physicist |
28-Feb-1930 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| Elias James Corey |
Chemist |
12-Jul-1928 |
|
Retrosynthetic analysis |
| Clyde Cowan |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1919 |
24-May-1974 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Hart Crane |
Poet |
21-Jul-1899 |
27-Apr-1932 |
Industrial and urban poet |
| Ruth Porter Crawford |
Musicologist |
3-Jul-1901 |
18-Nov-1953 |
Composer, musical ethnologist |
| Robert Creeley |
Poet |
21-May-1926 |
30-Mar-2005 |
Founded Black Mountain Review |
| George Crumb |
Composer |
24-Oct-1929 |
|
1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music |
| Countee Cullen |
Poet |
30-May-1903 |
9-Jan-1946 |
Harlem Renaissance poet |
| e. e. cummings |
Poet |
14-Oct-1894 |
3-Sep-1962 |
Majuscule-challenged American poet |
| Merce Cunningham |
Dancer |
16-Apr-1919 |
26-Jul-2009 |
Merce Cunningham Dance Company |
| Michael Cunningham |
Novelist |
6-Nov-1952 |
|
The Hours |
| Edward Dahlberg |
Novelist |
22-Jul-1900 |
27-Feb-1977 |
Because I Was Flesh |
| Jonathan Daniels |
Government |
26-Apr-1902 |
6-Nov-1981 |
FDR and Truman's press secretary |
| Mario Davidovsky |
Composer |
4-Mar-1934 |
|
Synchronisms |
| H. L. Davis |
Novelist |
18-Oct-1894 |
31-Oct-1960 |
Honey in the Horn |
| Gerard Debreu |
Economist |
4-Jul-1921 |
31-Dec-2004 |
Supply and demand theorist |
| Peter Diamond |
Economist |
29-Apr-1940 |
|
Diamond paradox in economics |
| James Dickey |
Poet |
2-Feb-1923 |
19-Jan-1997 |
Deliverance |
| E. L. Doctorow |
Author |
6-Jan-1931 |
|
The Book of Daniel |
| Rita Dove |
Poet |
28-Aug-1952 |
|
7th US Poet Laureate, 1993-95 |
| Sidney D. Drell |
Physicist |
13-Sep-1926 |
|
In the Shadow of the Bomb |
| Alan Dugan |
Poet |
12-Feb-1923 |
3-Sep-2003 |
Poems |
| Robert Duncan |
Poet |
7-Jan-1919 |
3-Feb-1988 |
Bending the Bow |
| Jennifer Egan |
Novelist |
6-Sep-1962 |
|
A Visit from the Goon Squad |
| Barbara Ehrenreich |
Author |
26-Aug-1941 |
|
Nickel and Dimed |
| Samuel Eilenberg |
Mathematician |
30-Sep-1913 |
30-Jan-1998 |
Category theory |
| Donald M. Engelman |
Biologist |
c. 1941 |
|
Biochemistry Professor at Yale |
| Eve Ensler |
Playwright |
25-May-1953 |
|
The Vagina Monologues |
| Jeffrey Eugenides |
Author |
8-Mar-1960 |
|
The Virgin Suicides |
| Thomas E. Everhart |
Physicist |
15-Feb-1932 |
|
President of CalTech, 1987-97 |
| Martha J. Farah |
Psychologist |
c. 1955 |
|
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, UPenn |
| Kenneth Fearing |
Novelist |
28-Jul-1902 |
26-Jun-1961 |
The Big Clock |
| Leslie A. Fiedler |
Critic |
8-Mar-1917 |
29-Jan-2003 |
Love and Death in the American Novel |
| Vivian Fine |
Composer |
28-Sep-1913 |
20-Mar-2000 |
Drama for Orchestra |
| Karen Finley |
Artist |
7-Mar-1956 |
|
Yam-slathering performance artist |
| Franklin M. Fisher |
Economist |
13-Dec-1934 |
|
Economist at MIT |
| Paul J. Flory |
Chemist |
19-Jun-1910 |
9-Sep-1985 |
Studied polymers |
| Shelby Foote |
Author |
17-Nov-1916 |
27-Jun-2005 |
Shiloh |
| Carolyn Forché |
Poet |
28-Apr-1950 |
|
The Country Between Us |
| Richard Ford |
Novelist |
16-Feb-1944 |
|
Independence Day |
| Lukas Foss |
Conductor |
15-Aug-1922 |
1-Feb-2009 |
Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
| Llyn Foulkes |
Painter |
1935 |
|
Assemblage artist |
| William A. Fowler |
Astronomer |
9-Aug-1911 |
14-Mar-1995 |
Element generation within stars |
| Joseph S. Francisco |
Chemist |
1955 |
|
Atmospheric chemist |
| Jonathan Franzen |
Author |
17-Aug-1959 |
|
The Corrections |
| E. Franklin Frazier |
Sociologist |
24-Sep-1894 |
17-May-1962 |
Black Bourgeoisie |
| Charles Fried |
Government |
15-Apr-1935 |
|
US Solicitor General, 1985-89 |
| William Gaddis |
Novelist |
29-Dec-1922 |
16-Dec-1998 |
A Frolic of His Own |
| Ernest J. Gaines |
Novelist |
15-Jan-1933 |
|
A Lesson Before Dying |
| William H. Gass |
Novelist |
30-Jul-1924 |
|
The Tunnel |
| Ivar Giaever |
Physicist |
5-Apr-1929 |
|
Tunneling through superconductors |
| Donald A. Glaser |
Physicist |
21-Sep-1926 |
|
Inventor of the bubble chamber |
| Nathan Glazer |
Pundit |
25-Feb-1923 |
|
Co-Editor, The Public Interest |
| Louise Glück |
Author |
22-Apr-1943 |
|
The Wild Iris |
| Robert Goddard |
Scientist |
5-Oct-1882 |
10-Aug-1945 |
Father of modern rocketry |
| Gail Godwin |
Novelist |
18-Jun-1937 |
|
A Southern Family |
| Erving Goffman |
Sociologist |
11-Jun-1922 |
19-Nov-1982 |
The Presentation of Self |
| Albert Goldbarth |
Poet |
31-Jan-1948 |
|
The most prolific modern poet |
| Stephen M. Goldfeld |
Economist |
9-Aug-1940 |
25-Aug-1995 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1980-81 |
| Nelson Goodman |
Philosopher |
7-Aug-1906 |
25-Nov-1998 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast |
| Patricia A. Graham |
Educator |
1935 |
|
Dean of Harvard GSE, 1982-91 |
| Clive W.J. Granger |
Economist |
4-Sep-1934 |
27-May-2009 |
Granger causality |
| Spalding Gray |
Actor |
5-Jun-1941 |
11-Jan-2004 |
Swimming to Cambodia monologist |
| Stanley B. Greenberg |
Business |
10-May-1945 |
|
Pollster |
| Vartan Gregorian |
Educator |
8-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Carnegie Corporation |
| Sanford J. Grossman |
Business |
21-Jul-1953 |
|
CEO of Quantitative Financial Strategies |
| Thom Gunn |
Poet |
29-Aug-1929 |
25-Apr-2004 |
The Man with Night Sweats |
| Marilyn Hacker |
Poet |
27-Nov-1942 |
|
Presentation Piece |
| Ian Hacking |
Philosopher |
18-Feb-1936 |
|
The Taming of Chance |
| Donald Hall |
Poet |
20-Sep-1928 |
|
The One Day |
| Oscar Handlin |
Historian |
29-Sep-1915 |
20-Sep-2011 |
The Uprooted |
| Elizabeth Hardwick |
Critic |
27-Jul-1916 |
2-Dec-2007 |
Seduction and Betrayal |
| Michael S. Harper |
Poet |
18-Mar-1938 |
|
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Anthony Hecht |
Poet |
16-Jan-1923 |
20-Oct-2004 |
The Hard Hours |
| James J. Heckman |
Economist |
19-Apr-1944 |
|
Statistical analysis of individual and household behavior |
| Alan J. Heeger |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
| Ray L. Heffner |
Educator |
7-May-1925 |
|
President of Brown University, 1966-69 |
| Mark Helprin |
Author |
28-Jun-1947 |
|
Winter's Tale |
| Paul Hendrickson |
Author |
29-Apr-1944 |
|
Hemingway's Boat |
| Louis Henyey |
Astronomer |
3-Feb-1910 |
18-Feb-1970 |
Henyey method |
| Dudley R. Herschbach |
Chemist |
18-Jun-1932 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Melville J. Herskovits |
Anthropologist |
10-Sep-1895 |
25-Feb-1963 |
The Myth of the Negro Past |
| Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Historian |
8-Aug-1922 |
|
Victorian Minds |
| Roald Hoffmann |
Chemist |
18-Jul-1937 |
|
Woodward-Hoffmann reaction |
| Douglas Hofstadter |
Author |
15-Feb-1945 |
|
Godel, Escher, Bach |
| Robert Hofstadter |
Physicist |
5-Feb-1915 |
17-Nov-1990 |
Size, shape, and structure of neutrons and protons |
| Bert Hölldobler |
Zoologist |
25-Jun-1936 |
|
Social organizations in insects |
| Robert W. Holley |
Scientist |
28-Jan-1922 |
11-Feb-1993 |
RNA's role in protein synthesis |
| Johannes Holtfreter |
Zoologist |
9-Jan-1901 |
13-Nov-1992 |
Chemotaxis |
| Paul Horgan |
Author |
1-Aug-1903 |
8-Mar-1995 |
Great River: The Rio Grande |
| Donald F. Hornig |
Educator |
17-Mar-1920 |
|
President of Brown University, 1970-76 |
| Richard Howard |
Poet |
13-Oct-1929 |
|
Untitled Subjects |
| Irving Howe |
Critic |
11-Jun-1920 |
5-May-1993 |
Editor of Dissent |
| Langston Hughes |
Poet |
1-Feb-1902 |
22-May-1967 |
The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
| Josephine Humphreys |
Author |
2-Feb-1945 |
|
Rich in Love |
| E. Howard Hunt |
Criminal |
9-Oct-1918 |
23-Jan-2007 |
Coordinated Watergate break-in |
| Samuel P. Huntington |
Author |
18-Apr-1927 |
24-Dec-2008 |
The Clash of Civilizations |
| Zora Neale Hurston |
Novelist |
7-Jan-1891 |
28-Jan-1960 |
Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| David Ignatow |
Poet |
7-Feb-1914 |
17-Nov-1997 |
Rescue the Dead |
| Bill Irwin |
Actor |
11-Apr-1950 |
|
My Blue Heaven |
| Douglas A. Irwin |
Economist |
c. 1962 |
|
Free Trade Under Fire |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Novelist |
7-May-1927 |
|
Heat and Dust |
| Norman Dello Joio |
Composer |
24-Jan-1913 |
24-Jul-2008 |
Meditation on Ecclesiastes |
| Donald Justice |
Poet |
12-Aug-1925 |
6-Aug-2004 |
The Summer Anniversaries |
| Mary Karr |
Author |
16-Jan-1955 |
|
The Liars' Club |
| Stanley Kauffmann |
Critic |
24-Apr-1916 |
|
Film critic for The New Republic |
| Alfred Kazin |
Critic |
5-Jun-1915 |
5-Jun-1998 |
On Native Grounds |
| Barnaby C. Keeney |
Educator |
17-Oct-1914 |
18-Jun-1980 |
President of Brown University, 1955-66 |
| Christoph M. Kimmich |
Educator |
16-Jan-1939 |
|
President, Brooklyn College |
| Maxine Hong Kingston |
Author |
27-Oct-1940 |
|
The Woman Warrior |
| Leon Kirchner |
Composer |
24-Jan-1919 |
17-Sep-2009 |
Quartet No. 3 |
| Henry Kissinger |
Government |
27-May-1923 |
|
US Secretary of State, 1973-77 |
| Joe Klein |
Journalist |
7-Sep-1946 |
|
Anonymous author of Primary Colors |
| Etheridge Knight |
Poet |
19-Apr-1931 |
10-Mar-1991 |
Poems from Prison |
| Donald E. Knuth |
Computer Programmer |
10-Jan-1938 |
|
The Art of Computer Programming |
| Walter Kohn |
Chemist |
9-Mar-1923 |
|
Density-functional theory |
| Gabriel Kolko |
Historian |
1932 |
|
Century of War |
| Arthur Kopit |
Playwright |
10-May-1937 |
|
Mama's Hung You in the Closet |
| Richard Kostelanetz |
Artist |
14-May-1940 |
|
Prodigious avant-garde artist and author |
| Jonathan Kozol |
Educator |
5-Sep-1936 |
|
Death at an Early Age |
| Thomas Kuhn |
Author |
18-Jul-1922 |
17-Jun-1996 |
Structure of Scientific Revolutions |
| Stanley Kunitz |
Poet |
29-Jul-1905 |
14-May-2006 |
US Poet Laureate, 2000 |
| Robert Kuttner |
Editor |
c. 1943 |
|
The American Prospect |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
Author |
11-Jul-1967 |
|
Interpreter of Maladies |
| Anne Lamott |
Author |
10-Apr-1954 |
|
Operating Instructions |
| Dorothea Lange |
Photographer |
26-May-1895 |
11-Oct-1965 |
Depression-era photographer |
| Nella Larsen |
Novelist |
13-Apr-1891 |
30-Mar-1964 |
Quicksand |
| Owen Lattimore |
Author |
29-Jul-1900 |
31-May-1989 |
Scholar of Mongolia |
| David Leavitt |
Novelist |
23-Jun-1961 |
|
The Lost Language of Cranes |
| Leon M. Lederman |
Physicist |
15-Jul-1922 |
|
Researcher of neutrinos |
| David M. Lee |
Physicist |
20-Jan-1931 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Yuan T. Lee |
Chemist |
29-Nov-1936 |
|
Crossed molecular beam experiments |
| Keith Lehrer |
Philosopher |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Metamind |
| Denise Levertov |
Poet |
24-Oct-1923 |
20-Dec-1997 |
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads |
| David Levine |
Cartoonist |
20-Dec-1926 |
29-Dec-2009 |
Caricaturist, New York Review of Books |
| Philip Levine |
Poet |
10-Jan-1928 |
|
What Work Is |
| Willard F. Libby |
Chemist |
17-Dec-1908 |
8-Sep-1980 |
Carbon-14 dating technique |
| William Lipscomb |
Chemist |
9-Dec-1919 |
14-Apr-2011 |
Chemical bonding |
| Clarence D. Long |
Politician |
11-Dec-1908 |
18-Sep-1994 |
Congressman from Maryland, 1963-85 |
| Barry Lopez |
Author |
6-Jan-1945 |
|
Of Wolves and Men |
| Robert Lucas |
Economist |
15-Sep-1937 |
|
Theory of rational expectations |
| Salvador Luria |
Biologist |
13-Aug-1912 |
6-Feb-1991 |
Natural selection in bacteria |
| Willem J. Luyten |
Astronomer |
7-Mar-1899 |
21-Nov-1994 |
Stellar mortician |
| Richard W. Lyman |
Educator |
18-Oct-1923 |
27-May-2012 |
President of Stanford University, 1971-80 |
| William Manchester |
Author |
1-Apr-1922 |
1-Jun-2004 |
The Arms of Krupp |
| Benoit Mandelbrot |
Mathematician |
20-Nov-1924 |
14-Oct-2010 |
Fractal mathematician |
| Paule Marshall |
Novelist |
9-Apr-1929 |
|
Brown Girl, Brownstones |
| Anthony W. Marx |
Educator |
28-Feb-1959 |
|
President, Amherst College |
| Eric Maskin |
Economist |
12-Dec-1950 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Bobbie Ann Mason |
Novelist |
1-May-1940 |
|
In Country |
| Albert Maysles |
Film Director |
26-Nov-1926 |
|
Documentary filmmaker |
| Cormac McCarthy |
Novelist |
20-Jul-1933 |
|
All the Pretty Horses |
| Mary McCarthy |
Author |
21-Jun-1912 |
25-Oct-1989 |
The Group |
| Barbara McClintock |
Scientist |
16-Jun-1902 |
2-Sep-1992 |
Discovered transposable genes |
| Richard L. McCormick |
Educator |
26-Dec-1947 |
|
President, Rutgers University |
| Carson McCullers |
Author |
19-Feb-1917 |
29-Sep-1967 |
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
| David McCullough |
Historian |
7-Jul-1933 |
|
The American Experience |
| Joseph McElroy |
Novelist |
21-Aug-1930 |
|
Lookout Cartridge |
| Bill McKibben |
Activist |
8-Dec-1960 |
|
The End of Nature |
| Terrence McNally |
Playwright |
3-Nov-1939 |
|
Frankie and Johnny |
| James Alan McPherson |
Author |
16-Sep-1943 |
|
Elbow Room |
| William Meredith |
Poet |
9-Jan-1919 |
30-May-2007 |
Partial Accounts |
| Robert K. Merton |
Sociologist |
4-Jul-1910 |
23-Feb-2003 |
On the Shoulders of Giants |
| Diane Middlebrook |
Author |
16-Apr-1939 |
15-Dec-2007 |
Biographer of Anne Sexton |
| C. Wright Mills |
Sociologist |
28-Aug-1916 |
20-Mar-1962 |
The Power Elite |
| Czeslaw Milosz |
Poet |
30-Jun-1911 |
14-Aug-2004 |
Polish novelist and poet, The Captive Mind |
| Ilhan Mimaroglu |
Electronic Musician |
11-Mar-1926 |
|
Sing Me A Song of Songmy |
| Meredith Monk |
Singer |
20-Nov-1942 |
|
Vocalist and "interdisciplinary performance" artist |
| Rick Moody |
Author |
18-Oct-1961 |
|
Purple America |
| Brian Moore |
Novelist |
25-Aug-1921 |
10-Jan-1999 |
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne |
| Marianne Moore |
Poet |
15-Nov-1887 |
5-Feb-1972 |
Collected Poems |
| Errol Morris |
Film Director |
5-Feb-1948 |
|
Documentary filmmaker |
| Wright Morris |
Novelist |
6-Jan-1910 |
29-Apr-1998 |
The Field of Vision |
| Paul Muldoon |
Poet |
20-Jun-1951 |
|
Moy Sand and Gravel |
| Hermann J. Muller |
Scientist |
21-Dec-1890 |
5-Apr-1967 |
Genetic effects of radiation |
| Robert S. Mulliken |
Chemist |
7-Jun-1896 |
31-Oct-1986 |
Molecular orbital theory |
| Robert A. Mundell |
Economist |
24-Oct-1932 |
|
Floating exchange rates |
| Roger B. Myerson |
Economist |
29-Mar-1951 |
|
Mechanism design theory |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Novelist |
23-Apr-1899 |
2-Jul-1977 |
Lolita |
| Thomas Nagel |
Philosopher |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
What is it like to be a bat? |
| Victor Navasky |
Publisher |
5-Jul-1932 |
|
Publisher of The Nation |
| Homer A. Neal |
Physicist |
13-Jun-1942 |
|
Director of the ATLAS Project |
| Ei-ichi Negishi |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1935 |
|
Palladium-catalyzed cross couplings |
| John T. Noonan, Jr. |
Judge |
24-Oct-1926 |
|
9th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1985-96 |
| Edwin G. Nourse |
Economist |
20-May-1883 |
7-Apr-1974 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-49 |
| Robert Nozick |
Philosopher |
16-Nov-1938 |
23-Jan-2002 |
Libertarian philosopher |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Author |
16-Jun-1938 |
|
Author of over 40 novels |
| George A. Olah |
Chemist |
22-May-1927 |
|
Isolated carbonium ions |
| Mary Oliver |
Poet |
10-Sep-1935 |
|
American Primitive |
| Revilo P. Oliver |
Activist |
7-Jul-1908 |
10-Aug-1994 |
Founding member, John Birch Society |
| Pauline Oliveros |
Composer |
2-Jun-1932 |
|
Composer, Deep Listener |
| Charles Olson |
Poet |
27-Dec-1910 |
10-Jan-1970 |
The Maximus Poems |
| Frank Oppenheimer |
Physicist |
14-Aug-1912 |
3-Feb-1985 |
Founder of the Exploratorium |
| Cynthia Ozick |
Author |
17-Apr-1928 |
|
The Puttermesser Papers |
| George Packer |
Author |
1960 |
|
The Assassins' Gate |
| Elaine Pagels |
Historian |
13-Feb-1943 |
|
The Gnostic Gospels |
| Nell Irvin Painter |
Historian |
2-Aug-1942 |
|
Creating Black Americans |
| Grace Paley |
Author |
11-Dec-1922 |
22-Aug-2007 |
The Little Disturbances of Man |
| Pief Panofsky |
Physicist |
24-Apr-1919 |
24-Sep-2007 |
Stanford Linear Accelerator |
| Andreas Papandreou |
Head of State |
5-Feb-1919 |
23-Jun-1996 |
Twice Prime Minister of Greece |
| Ann Patchett |
Novelist |
2-Dec-1963 |
|
Bel Canto |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Octavio Paz |
Poet |
31-Mar-1914 |
19-Apr-1998 |
The Labyrinth of Solitude |
| Henry Petroski |
Educator |
6-Feb-1942 |
|
Engineering professor |
| Edmund S. Phelps |
Economist |
26-Jul-1933 |
|
Golden Rules of Economic Growth |
| Caryl Phillips |
Novelist |
13-Mar-1958 |
|
Crossing the River |
| Gregory Pincus |
Scientist |
9-Apr-1903 |
22-Aug-1967 |
Inventor of oral contraceptives |
| Robert Pinsky |
Poet |
20-Oct-1940 |
|
US Poet Laureate, 1997-2000 |
| Robert Pirsig |
Author |
6-Sep-1928 |
|
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer |
Chemist |
6-Jan-1914 |
26-Dec-1997 |
President of Rice University, 1961-68 |
| John C. Polanyi |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1929 |
|
Infrared chemiluminescence |
| Elena Poniatowska |
Journalist |
19-May-1932 |
|
Mexican feminist writer, journalist |
| Edward C. Prescott |
Economist |
26-Dec-1940 |
|
Dynamic macroeconomics |
| E. Annie Proulx |
Author |
22-Aug-1935 |
|
The Shipping News |
| James Purdy |
Author |
17-Jul-1914 |
13-Mar-2009 |
Eustance Chisholm and the Works |
| Martin Puryear |
Sculptor |
23-May-1941 |
|
Post-minimalist |
| Venkatraman Ramakrishnan |
Scientist |
1952 |
|
Ribosomes |
| John Crowe Ransom |
Poet |
30-Apr-1888 |
4-Jul-1974 |
God Without Thunder |
| Diane Ravitch |
Government |
1-Jul-1938 |
|
Education reformer |
| Dixy Lee Ray |
Politician |
3-Sep-1914 |
2-Jan-1994 |
Governor of Washington, 1977-81 |
| Ishmael Reed |
Novelist |
22-Feb-1938 |
|
The Free-Lance Pallbearers |
| Steve Reich |
Composer |
3-Oct-1936 |
|
Minimalist composer, Different Trains |
| Frederick Reines |
Physicist |
16-Mar-1918 |
26-Aug-1998 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Eric Reissner |
Mathematician |
5-Jan-1913 |
1-Nov-1996 |
Reissner shear-deformation plate theory |
| Kenneth Rexroth |
Poet |
22-Dec-1905 |
6-Jun-1982 |
Disenchanted beat poet |
| Richard Rhodes |
Historian |
4-Jul-1937 |
|
The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| Adrienne Rich |
Poet |
16-May-1929 |
27-Mar-2012 |
An Atlas of the Difficult World |
| Robert C. Richardson |
Physicist |
26-Jun-1937 |
|
Superfluidity of helium-3 |
| Mordecai Richler |
Novelist |
27-Jan-1931 |
3-Jul-2001 |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz |
| Theodore Roethke |
Poet |
25-May-1908 |
1-Aug-1963 |
The Waking |
| Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Economist |
22-Mar-1953 |
|
Harvard economist |
| Muriel Rukeyser |
Poet |
15-Dec-1913 |
12-Feb-1980 |
The Book of the Dead |
| Edward Ruscha |
Painter |
16-Dec-1937 |
|
Twenty-six Gasoline Stations |
| Joe Sacco |
Cartoonist |
2-Oct-1960 |
|
Palestine |
| Oliver Sacks |
Doctor |
9-Jul-1933 |
|
Awakenings |
| Paul Samuelson |
Economist |
15-May-1915 |
13-Dec-2009 |
Theory of revealed preference |
| George Saunders |
Author |
2-Dec-1958 |
|
In Persuasion Nation |
| Orville Schell |
Author |
20-May-1940 |
|
Prominent sinologist |
| Stacy Schiff |
Journalist |
26-Oct-1961 |
|
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) |
| Robert Schrieffer |
Physicist |
31-May-1931 |
|
BCS Theory of Superconductivity |
| James Schuyler |
Poet |
9-Nov-1923 |
12-Apr-1991 |
Freely Espousing |
| Melvin Schwartz |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1932 |
28-Aug-2006 |
Researcher of neutrinos |
| Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
| John Searle |
Philosopher |
Dec-1932 |
|
Chinese Room Argument, Philosopher of Language |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Roger Sessions |
Composer |
28-Dec-1896 |
16-Mar-1985 |
Concerto for Orchestra |
| Mary Lee Settle |
Novelist |
29-Jul-1918 |
27-Sep-2005 |
Beulah Land |
| K. Barry Sharpless |
Chemist |
28-Apr-1941 |
|
Chiral catalysts |
| Robert Shiller |
Economist |
29-Mar-1946 |
|
Irrational Exuberance |
| Elaine Showalter |
Critic |
21-Jan-1941 |
|
Lead alpha Gynocritic |
| John Silber |
Educator |
15-Aug-1926 |
|
President of Boston University, 1971-96 |
| Louis Simpson |
Poet |
27-Mar-1923 |
|
At The End of the Open Road |
| Elliott P. Skinner |
Scholar |
20-Jun-1924 |
1-Apr-2007 |
US Ambassador to Upper Volta, 1966-69 |
| Theda Skocpol |
Educator |
4-May-1947 |
|
Harvard sociologist, political scientist |
| Hamilton O. Smith |
Scientist |
23-Aug-1931 |
|
Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage) |
| W. D. Snodgrass |
Poet |
5-Jan-1926 |
13-Jan-2009 |
Heart's Needle |
| Jonathan D. Spence |
Historian |
11-Aug-1936 |
|
The Search for Modern China |
| Jean Stafford |
Novelist |
1-Jul-1915 |
26-Mar-1979 |
The Catherine Wheel |
| Paul Starr |
Educator |
12-May-1949 |
|
The Social Transformation of American Medicine |
| Ronald Steel |
Scholar |
25-Mar-1931 |
|
Pax Americana |
| Fritz Stern |
Historian |
2-Feb-1926 |
|
German historian |
| Joseph Stiglitz |
Economist |
9-Feb-1943 |
|
Ex-Chief Economist of the World Bank |
| Richard Stites |
Historian |
2-Dec-1931 |
7-Mar-2010 |
The Women's Liberation Movement in Russia |
| Robert Stone |
Novelist |
21-Aug-1937 |
|
Dog Soldiers |
| Morton Subotnick |
Electronic Musician |
13-Apr-1933 |
|
Silver Apples of the Moon |
| James B. Sumner |
Chemist |
19-Nov-1887 |
12-Aug-1955 |
Crystallized enzymes |
| May Swenson |
Poet |
28-May-1913 |
4-Dec-1989 |
Another Animal |
| Allen Tate |
Poet |
19-Nov-1899 |
9-Feb-1979 |
Mr. Pope and Other Poems |
| James Tate |
Poet |
8-Dec-1943 |
|
The Lost Pilot |
| Henry Taube |
Chemist |
30-Nov-1915 |
16-Nov-2005 |
Mechanisms of electron transfer |
| Cecil Taylor |
Jazz Musician |
15-Mar-1929 |
|
Avant-garde jazz pianist |
| John B. Taylor |
Economist |
8-Dec-1946 |
|
Council of Economic Advisers, 1989-91 |
| Richard E. Taylor |
Physicist |
2-Nov-1929 |
|
Verified existence of quarks |
| Stephan Thernstrom |
Scholar |
1934 |
|
Neoconservative thinker |
| Lionel Tiger |
Educator |
1937 |
|
The Decline of Males |
| Charles H. Townes |
Physicist |
28-Jul-1915 |
|
Invention of the maser and laser |
| Edward Tufte |
Author |
14-Mar-1942 |
|
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
| Amos Tversky |
Psychologist |
16-Mar-1937 |
2-Jun-1996 |
Cognitive psychologist, studied risks |
| John Updike |
Novelist |
18-Mar-1932 |
27-Jan-2009 |
Rabbit, Run |
| Vladimir Ussachevsky |
Composer |
3-Nov-1911 |
2-Jan-1990 |
Tape music composer |
| Ernest van den Haag |
Scholar |
15-Sep-1914 |
21-Mar-2002 |
Punishing Criminals |
| John H. van Vleck |
Physicist |
13-Mar-1899 |
27-Oct-1980 |
Quantum theory of paramagnetism |
| Peter Viereck |
Poet |
5-Aug-1916 |
13-May-2006 |
Terror and Decorum |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Novelist |
11-Nov-1922 |
11-Apr-2007 |
Slaughterhouse Five |
| George Wald |
Biologist |
18-Nov-1906 |
12-Apr-1997 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Wendy Wasserstein |
Playwright |
18-Oct-1950 |
30-Jan-2006 |
The Heidi Chronicles |
| Eugen Weber |
Historian |
24-Apr-1925 |
17-May-2007 |
The Western Tradition |
| Eudora Welty |
Author |
13-Apr-1909 |
23-Jul-2001 |
The Optimist's Daughter |
| Edmund White |
Author |
13-Jan-1940 |
|
The Joy of Gay Sex |
| Walter White |
Activist |
1-Jul-1893 |
21-Mar-1955 |
Worked against lynchings |
| Carl E. Wieman |
Physicist |
26-Mar-1951 |
|
Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Richard Wilbur |
Poet |
1-Mar-1921 |
|
Second U.S. Poet Laureate |
| Sean Wilentz |
Historian |
c. 1950 |
|
The Rise of American Democracy |
| Andrew Wiles |
Mathematician |
11-Apr-1953 |
|
Proved Fermat's Last Theorem |
| Geoffrey Wilkinson |
Chemist |
14-Jul-1921 |
26-Sep-1996 |
Organometallic "sandwich" compounds |
| C. K. Williams |
Poet |
4-Nov-1936 |
|
Repair |
| Oliver E. Williamson |
Economist |
27-Sep-1932 |
|
Transaction cost economics |
| August Wilson |
Playwright |
27-Apr-1945 |
2-Oct-2005 |
The Piano Lesson |
| Edward O. Wilson |
Biologist |
10-Jun-1929 |
|
Father of Sociobiology |
| Larry Woiwode |
Novelist |
30-Oct-1941 |
|
What I'm Going to Do, I Think |
| Thomas Wolfe |
Novelist |
3-Oct-1900 |
15-Sep-1938 |
Look Homeward, Angel |
| Gordon S. Wood |
Historian |
27-Nov-1933 |
|
The Creation of the American Republic |
| James Wright |
Educator |
1939 |
|
President, Dartmouth College |
| Janet L. Yellen |
Economist |
13-Aug-1946 |
|
President and CEO, San Francisco Fed |
| La Monte Young |
Composer |
14-Oct-1935 |
|
Minimalist composer |
| Morton Dauwen Zabel |
Educator |
10-Aug-1901 |
28-Apr-1964 |
Craft and Character |
| Ahmed H. Zewail |
Chemist |
26-Feb-1946 |
|
Femtochemistry |
