Writers
- Samuel Spewack (c. 1917) screenwriter, playwright, and double Tony Award-winner for Kiss Me, Kate and Academy Award nominee for My Favorite Wife
- Marv Goldberg (1960) music critic and writer
- Eric Van Lustbader (1964) writer, author of The Bourne Legacy and The Ninja
- M. G. Sheftall (1980) writer, author of Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
- Susan Jane Gilman (1982) writer, author of Kiss My Tiara and Hypocrite in a Poufy White Dress. Student of Frank McCourt.
- David Lipsky (1983) novelist (Absolutely American)
- Conor McCourt (1983) writer (The McCourts of New York)
- Matt Ruff (1983) writer (Set This House in Order)
- Laurie Gwen Shapiro (1984) novelist (Matzo Ball Heiress) and documentary director; sister of David Shapiro (1981); worked with Conor McCourt (1983)
- Alec Klein (1985) writer of A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools
- Jordan Sonnenblick (1987) writer of young adult novels Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie, Notes from the Midnight Driver, Zen and the Art of Faking It, and Dodger and Me. Student of Frank McCourt.
- Arthur M. Jolly (1987)' Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, playwright of Past Curfew and A Gulag Mouse'. Student of Frank McCourt.
- Gary Shteyngart (1991) author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook and Absurdistan
- Rebecca Pawel (1995) writer
- Ned Vizzini (1999) author of The Other Normals, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah....
- Isamu Fukui (2008) author of Truancy
Note: For Frank McCourt, memorist and author, and Emily Moore, poet, see the main Stuyvesant High School article.
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