List of Oberlin College Alumni - Literature

Literature

See also: Pulitzer Prize
  • Paolo Bacigalupi, author of The Windup Girl
  • Alison Bechdel (1981), cartoonist (Dykes To Watch Out For) and graphic novelist (Fun Home)
  • Ishmael Beah (2004), author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
  • Jeffrey Bean (2000), poet, author of Diminished Fifth.
  • Paul Bergstraesser (1989), author of several short stories and professor at the University of Wyoming.
  • Jackson Bliss (1998), novelist, author of BLANK, The Ninjas of My Greater Self and A Travel Guide to the Broken World.
  • Geoffrey Blodgett (1953), historian and author of Cass Gilbert: The Early Years.
  • Wendy Brenner (1987), author of Phone Calls From the Dead.
  • Alice Rowe Burks (1942), author of Who Invented the Computer?: The Legal Battle that Changed Computing History.
  • Michael Byers (1991), novelist and author of The Coast of Good Intentions, Long for This World, and Percival's Planet.
  • Gail Carriger (1998), fantasy novelist of Soulless.
  • John Mark Carroll (1984), historian and author of A Concise History of Hong Kong.
  • Tracy Chevalier (1984), novelist and author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels, and The Lady and the Unicorn.
  • Anna J. Cooper (1884), African-American author and teacher, fourth African-American woman to receive a PhD.
  • Alev Lytle Croutier, a Turkish-American author.
  • Charles D'Ambrosio (1982), essayist, short story writer.
  • Josh Emmons (1995), novelist (The Loss of Leon Meed, Prescription for a Superior Existence).
  • Darcy Frey (1983), non-fiction writer.
  • Alan Furst (1962), novelist, author of Blood of Victory.
  • Myla Goldberg (1993), novelist (Bee Season, Wickett's Remedy).
  • Melissa Fay Greene (1975), author (There Is No Me Without You).
  • Linda Gregerson (1971), award-winning poet (Waterborne, Magnetic North).
  • David Halperin (1973), author (One Hundred Years of Homosexuality).
  • Bill Henderson (novelist) (1965) author of Stark Raving Elvis, I Killed Hemingway, I, Elvis: Confessions of a Counterfeit King.
  • Joe Hickerson (1957), American folklorist.
  • Donovan Hohn (1972), author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them
  • Jonathan Holden (1963), poet (Knowing: New and Selected Poems).
  • Michael Hollinger (1984), playwright (Red Herring)
  • Cathy Park Hong (1998), poet (Translating Mo'um).
  • Tim Hurson (1967), speaker, writer, creativity theorist, author of Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
  • Naeem Mohaiemen (1993), writer and artist whose projects research histories of the 1970s international left.
  • David Maine (1985), novelist (The Preservationist).
  • Megan McDonald (1981), writer of children's literature (Judy Moody, The Great Pumpkin Switch).
  • J. Hillis Miller (1948), literary critic (The Ethics of Reading, On Literature).
  • Martha Moody (1977), author of Best Friends, Office of Desire, and Sometimes Mine.
  • Thylias Moss (1981), poet, playwright, and 1996 MacArthur Fellow.
  • Josh Neufeld (1989), cartoonist (Keyhole) and graphic novelist (A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge).
  • Thisbe Nissen (1994), novelist (Out of the Girls Room and Into the Night, Osprey Island)
  • Peggy Orenstein (1983), author (Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World).
  • Rich Orloff (1973), playwright (Big Boys).
  • Dzvinia Orlowsky (1975), poet (Except for One Obscene Brush Stroke).
  • Jena Osman (1985), poet (The Character).
  • Suzanne Paola (1980), poet (Lives of The Saints) and memoirist.
  • Lia Purpura (1986), poet (Stone Sky Lifting), essayist (Increase, On Looking).
  • David Rees (1994), cartoonist (My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable, Get Your War On).
  • S. J. Rozan (1972), novelist (Reflecting the Sky), Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Award Winner, 2003.
  • John C. Russell (1985), playwright (Stupid Kids).
  • Kathy Lou Schultz (1990), poet (Some Vague Wife).
  • Elizabeth Searle (1983), novelist (Celebrities in Disguise).
  • Stephen W. Sears (1954), author (Gettysburg).
  • Vijay Seshadri (1974), poet (The Long Meadow).
  • Matthew Sharpe (1984), novelist (Nothing is Terrible, The Sleeping Father, Jamestown).
  • Gary Shteyngart (1995), novelist (The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan : A Novel, Super Sad True Love Story ).
  • Donald J. Sobol (1948), author of Encyclopedia Brown series.
  • Matthew Stadler (1981), novelist (Allan Stein).
  • Jon Swan (1950), playwright, poet, librettist, and journalist.
  • Michael Teig (1990), poet (Big Back Yard).
  • Geoffrey Ward (1962), author (The West: An Illustrated History and The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945).
  • Bruce Weigl (1973), poet (Archeology of the Circle: New and Selected Poems).
  • William Drake Westervelt (1871 and 1874; honorary degree 1926), Hawaiian historical writer.
  • Christopher Robin "Kit" Woolsey (1964), bridge internationalist and writer (Matchpoints) and backgammon expert.
  • John Wray (1993), novelist (The Right Hand of Sleep, Lowboy).

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