Arts and Literature
- Vito Acconci 1962, artist and architect
- Philip Berrigan 1950, author and activist
- Billy Collins 1963, former Poet Laureate of the United States
- Leo Cullum 1963, cartoonist best known for his work in The New Yorker.
- Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator
- Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs.
- Jack Higgins 1976, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun Times
- Michael Harvey 1980, author of The Chicago Way and The Fifth Floor and co-creator of the TV program Cold Case Files
- Michael Hogan 1972, author of the novels Man Out of Time and Burial of the Dead
- Edward P. Jones 1972, 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction for writing The Known World
- Elizabeth Keane 1994, author of Sean MacBride and An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary
- Paul LeClerc 1963, President Emeritus of the New York Public Library
- Kyle Murphy 2007, goes by the pen name Karsten Knight, author of Wildefire series.
- Joe McGinniss 1964, bestselling author of The Selling of the President, Fatal Vision, and other books
- Jay O'Callahan 1960, prominent storyteller
- Barry Reed 1949, Boston trial lawyer and author of The Verdict, which was made into the Oscar-nominated 1982 film starring Paul Newman
- Gaspar Tringale 1971, portrait photographer known for his photos in Vanity Fair.
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“Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.”
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“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”
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