Literature
- Ray Stannard Baker, Michigan State University, 1889 - Biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner
- Louis Bromfield, Columbia University, 1920 - Pulitzer Prize winner for Early Autumn
- Po Bronson, Stanford, 1986 - Writer
- Eugene Field, Knox College, 1872 - Poet, Author of Children's Books
- Don Herold, Indiana University, 1912 - Humorist
- Walter Havighurst, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1923 - Writer and professor
- James Michener, Swarthmore College, 1929 - Pulitzer Prize Winner, Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
- Dan Moldea, The University of Akron, 1973 - Author, writer of organized crime and American politics books; http://www.moldea.com
- Reynolds Price, Duke University, 1955 - Writer, essayist
- William Tate, Vanderbilt University, 1922 - Poet, social commentator
- Edward K. Thompson, Univ. of North Dakota, 1927 - Managing Editor of Life popular weekly pictorial magazine
- William Allen White, University of Kansas, 1890 - Editor, writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
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