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
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