Alumni
Tea Leoni - actress and wife of David Duchovny.]] Barbara Walters - American journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television and news magazine and evening news shows. She was the first female co-anchor of network evening news. J.J. Abrams - Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, director and founder of Bad Robot Productions. Martha Graham - American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance. Rahm Emanuel - Former White House Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama; former member of the United States House of Representatives and chairman of the Democratic Caucus. He was the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Leader Steny Hoyer and Whip Jim Clyburn. Alice Walker- Pulitzer Prize winning author, most famous for the critically acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Vera Wang- fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection. Maria Goeppert-Mayer - physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model of the atomic nucleus. She is the second female laureate in physics after Marie Curie. E.L. Doctorow - award winning author whose fiction ranges throughout American social history, from the Civil War to the present.Read more about this topic: List Of Sarah Lawrence College People