List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) People - Notable Alumni - Authors, Journalists, and Poets

Authors, Journalists, and Poets

  • Anastasia M. Ashman, 1982 - author
  • David-Matthew Barnes, 1988 - novelist, playwright, poet and filmmaker
  • Belva Davis, 1951 - journalist
  • Philip K. Dick - author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, on which the movie Blade Runner was based, and many other books
  • David Gordon (economist), 1961 - editor of Harvard Crimson, economist, syndicated columnist
  • Sandra Gulland, novelist
  • Shelley Jackson - author of Patchwork Girl.
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - science fiction author of the Earthsea series, The Left Hand of Darkness, and many other books
  • Leza Lowitz, 1980 - author, poet, editor, journalist
  • Andrew O'Hehir, 1979 - film critic and journalist, Salon.com
  • R. Kent Rasmussen, 1961 - author/editor of more than 15 books, including nine titles about Mark Twain
  • Ariel Schrag, 1998, autobiographical graphic novelist
  • Joel Selvin, 1967, rock music critic and author
  • Frank Somerville, 1978, television news anchor, KTVU Oakland
  • Elizabeth Treadwell, 1985 - poet
  • Thornton Wilder, c. 1915 - novelist and playwright
  • Charlotte Wilder, c. 1915 -poet and sister of Thornton Wilder
  • Mark London Williams, 1977 - author
  • Caleiph Ken'yon Brewer, 1977 - author, poet

Read more about this topic:  List Of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) People, Notable Alumni

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

    Then give me leave to love, & love me too
    Not with designe
    To raise, as Loves curst Rebels doe,
    When puling Poets whine,
    Fame to their beauty, from their blubbr’d eyn.
    Thomas Carew (1589–1639)