List of City College of New York People - Literature and Journalism

Literature and Journalism

• Audre Lorde
• Toni Cade Bambara
• Addison Gayle, Jr. 1965 – African American literary critic and teacher
• Larry Neal
• June Jordan
• Barbara Christian
• Alan Abelson 1942 – columnist, former editor, Barron's
• Marc D. Angel- (MA) – rabbinic leader, published author
• Maurice Ashley 1988 – chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and author
• Lawrence Bush - author and editor of Jewish Currents
• Helen Boyd 1995 – writer, speaker, and educator on gender and transgender theory
• Joe Cioffi 1982 – television meteorologist
• Dan Daniel 1910 – dean of American sportswriters
• Reuben Fine 1932 – chess grandmaster, psychologist, and author
• Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – novelist, philosopher, MacArthur Fellow
• Vivian Gornick – writer, memoirist, feminist, professor; author of Fierce Attachments (1987)
• Peter Grad 1974 – The Record, Hackensack, NJ Op-Ed Page Editor, technology columnist (The PC Guy)
• Clyde Haberman 1966 – New York Times reporter and columnist
• Oscar Hijuelos 1975 – won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
• Irving Howe 1940 – author of World of Our Fathers, literary critic, coined the phrase "New York Jewish Intellectual"
• Bernard Kalb 1951 – journalist and television news correspondent
• Marvin Kalb 1951 – journalist and television news correspondent
• David Karp 1948 – novelist and television writer
• Alfred Kazin – Author of A Walker in the City, literary critic
• Jack Kroll 1937 – culture editor, Newsweek
• Joseph P. Lash 1931 – Pulitzer Prize for Biography winner, author of Eleanor and Franklin
• Harvey Leonard (Moskowitz) 1970 - meteorologist, broadcast journalist, and TV personality
• Paul Levinson – author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code (winner, Locus Award, 1999)
• Oscar Lewis 1936 - anthropologist, author, and professor
• Douglas Light 2003 – novelist, screenwriter, short story writer (O. Henry Prize winner, 2003, Grace Paley Prize 2010)
• Bernard Malamud 1936 (BA) – author (won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award); author of The Assistant
• Ralph Morse – career photographer for LIFE Magazine; youngest war correspondent in World War II (recipient of the 1995 Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, the highest honor in the field of photojournalism)
• Montrose Jonas Moses 1899 – author
• Walter Mosley 1991 (MA) – best-selling author whose novels about private eye Easy Rawlins have received Edgar and Golden Dagger Awards.
• Michael Oreskes 1975 – executive editor of The International Herald Tribune
• Mario Puzo – best-selling novelist, screenwriter The Godfather
• Ernesto Quiñonez 1996 (BA, MA) national bestselling author of Bodega Dreams and other titles.
• A.H. Raskin – former labor editor, The New York Times.
• Robert Rosen 1974 (BA, MA) – author of the best-selling biography Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.
• A.M. Rosenthal 1949 – former executive editor of The New York Times.
• Henry Roth 1928 – novelist, author of Call It Sleep
• Robert Scheer – journalist
• Daniel Schorr 1939 – journalist, veteran newscaster and commentator for CBS, CNN, and NPR
• Stephen Shepard 1961 – editor in chief, Business Week
• Anatole Shub – editor and journalist specializing in Eastern European matters.
• Upton Sinclair 1897 (BA) – author (The Jungle)
• Robert Sobel – 1951 (BSS), 1952 (MA) – best-selling author of business histories.
• Earl Ubell - 1948 - Print, tv and radio journalist specializing in science and health reporting.
• Elsie B. Washington (1942–2009), author (using the pseudonym Rosalind Welles) of the 1980 book Entwined Destinies, considered the first romance novel featuring African American characters written by an African American author.
• Gary Weiss 1975 – Investigative journalist, author
• Barry Wilner 1973 – Sports Writer (NFL, Olympic Sports) for the Associated Press. 2002 AP Sports Editor Awards for Deadline Writing and Story of the Year. 8-Time Richard Dreyfuss Look-A-Like Contest Winner (2000–2008)