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Guggenheim Fellowship

HONOR

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.

Official Website:
http://www.gf.org/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown 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
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Poet
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Edward Ruscha
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Author
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Robert Schrieffer
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Robert Shiller
Economist
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Elaine Showalter
Critic
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John Silber
Educator
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Louis Simpson
Poet
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Scholar
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Poet
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Physicist
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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
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John Updike
Novelist
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Composer
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Scholar
15-Sep-1914 21-Mar-2002 Punishing Criminals
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Poet
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Novelist
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Author
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Walter White
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Carl E. Wieman
Physicist
26-Mar-1951   Bose-Einstein Condensates
Richard Wilbur
Poet
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Sean Wilentz
Historian
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Andrew Wiles
Mathematician
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Chemist
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Thomas Wolfe
Novelist
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Historian
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Educator
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Educator
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