Hotchkiss in Popular Culture
- The school is mentioned several times in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and in his short story Six of One.
- In the book Primary Colors by Joe Klein, later turned into a film, the principal character, Henry Burton, was educated at Hotchkiss, and is frequently referred to as "Hotchkiss".
- In Jeffrey Archer's novel Sons of Fortune, protagonist Fletcher Davenport is a Hotchkiss alumnus.
- Hotchkiss is mentioned in Elizabeth Wurtzel's 1994 book Prozac Nation.
- For the school's centenary, Ernest Kolowrat was commissioned to write Hotchkiss: A Chronicle of an American School (ISBN 1-56131-058-1).
- The Hotchkiss School: A Portrait was published by the school in 1966 (Wertenbaker & Basserman, p. 113).
- Prominent alumnus, Librarian of Congress, and poet Archibald MacLeish refers to Hotchkiss in a 1982 interview in American Heritage magazine. He mentioned not liking his time at the school.
- Barney Penniman plans to go to Hotchkiss in the young-adult fiction book Through the Hidden Door.
- Glen Bishop from the AMC series Mad Men attends Hotchkiss. In the season 5 episode "Commissions and Fees," Glen sneaks off campus to visit Sally Draper in New York City.
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