Notable Alumni and Faculty
Among the more notable of Bennington's alumni are: Alan Arkin, Andrew Kromelow, Anne Ramsey, Anthony Wilson, Carol Channing, Donna Tartt, Andrea Dworkin, Kathleen Norris, Susan Crile, Kiran Desai, Bret Easton Ellis, Judith Butler, Libby Zion, Jill Eisenstadt, Jonathan Lethem, Justin Theroux, Michael Pollan, Helen Frankenthaler, Cora Cohen, Liz Phillips, Tim Daly, Roger Kimball, Holland Taylor, Bradley S. Jacobs, Melissa Rosenberg, Jane Thompson, Peggy Adler and Peter Dinklage.
Faculty has included Wharton and James biographer R.W.B. Lewis, essayist Edward Hoagland, literary critic Camille Paglia, rhetorician Kenneth Burke, fomer United Artists' senior vice-president Steven Bach, novelists Bernard Malamud and John Gardner, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, composers Allen Shawn, Henry Brant, and Vivian Fine, painters Kenneth Noland and Jules Olitski, politicians Mansour Farhang and Mac Maharaj, poets Léonie Adams and Howard Nemerov, sculptor Anthony Caro, dancer/choreographer Martha Graham, drummer Milford Graves, author William "Bill" Butler (author of The Butterfly Revolution), economist Karl Polanyi and a number of Pulitzer Prize-winning poets including W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Mary Oliver, Theodore Roethke and Anne Waldman.
Kiran Desai ('93) won the Man Booker Prize (UK) (2006) for her novel The Inheritance of Loss,. Alan Arkin ('55) won an Academy Award in 2007 for his role in Little Miss Sunshine.
The band Mountain Man formed at Bennington College as all three female singers were students.
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