Arts and Letters
- Charles Warren (U.S. author) (S.J.D.), Pulitzer Prize for History
- John Kendrick Bangs (1883–84), writer and satirist associated with so-called "Bangsian fantasy"
- Alfred Bester (dropped out), science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor, Hugo Award
- Charles Chaille-Long (1880), writer, explorer of Africa, soldier
- Da Chen, Chinese author; Brothers awarded best book of 2006 by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post
- Thomas Frederick Crane, American folklorist, academic at Cornell University, lawyer
- Ernest Howard Crosby, author
- Richard Cummings (writer), author, playwright, theorist, and critic
- John Watts de Peyster (studied at the Law School), author on the art of war, military history and biography; also published drama, poetry, military criticism
- Bruce Ducker (1964), novelist, Pulitzer Prize nominated, Colorado Book Award
- Freddie Gershon, published author of hugely successful roman a clef concerning the music industry (in the 1960s through the 1980s)
- William Francis Gibbs (LL.B., M.A.), renowned naval architect
- Martin Gottfried, critic, drama critic, columnist and author
- Eddie Hayes (lawyer), memoirist
- Arthur Garfield Hays (1905), author of numerous books and articles
- Isaac Hollister Hall (1865), famed Orientalist and curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1885–96)
- Thomas Hauser (1970), award-winning author; 1991 William Hill Sports Book of the Year; Pulitzer Prize nominated
- William Ivins, Jr. (1907), curator of prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1916–1946), author
- Speight Jenkins (1961), arts administrator, general director of the Seattle Opera (1983-)
- Tudor Jenks (1880), author, poet, artist, editor, lawyer
- Caroline Kennedy (1988), writer, editor, author of seven best selling books (including two on civil liberties), attorney; daughter of President John F. Kennedy
- John Marshall Kernochan, law professor, composer, and music publisher
- Gustav Kobbe 1879, music critic and author, best known for his guide to opera, The Complete Opera Book
- Hamilton Wright Mabie (1869), essayist, critic, and lecturer
- Brander Matthews (1873), writer and educator, first U.S. professor of dramatic literature, Legion of Honor
- Brad Meltzer (1996), New York Times best-selling novelist, DC Comics author, and co-creator of the television series Jack & Bobby
- Duffield Osborne (1881), author
- Edward Packard, children's author who developed the "choose your own adventure" style of storytelling
- Isaac Rice (1880), author, inventor, and chess patron
- Karenna Gore Schiff (2000), author, journalist, attorney, daughter of Vice-President Al Gore
- Eugene Schuyler (1863), translator of Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoi, writer, scholar
- Paula Sharp, author, translator
- Gerald Tomlinson, writer of mysteries and books on baseball and other topics
- Arthur Dudley Vinton, author and lawyer
- Manly Wade Wellman, writer, recipient of Edgar Allan Poe Award, among other awards
- Daniel R. White (1979), lawyer, humorist, writer, editor; best known as the author of The Official Lawyer's Handbook, a satire of the legal profession, and White's Law Dictionary, a parody of Black's Law Dictionary
- Charles Yu, writer; 2007 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Award; How to Live Safely, runner up, 2011 Campbell Memorial Award.
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