Writers
- Renata Adler, novelist, essayist, and critic
- Joseph Amiel (1962), attorney and writer of popular fiction
- Aditi Banerjee, co-author and editor of Invading the Sacred
- Chesa Boudin (2011), progressive writer
- Lan Cao, author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge
- Stephen Carter, novelist
- Ken Chen, poet
- Heidi W. Durrow (1995), novelist
- Robin Goldstein (2002), food and wine critic
- Adam Haslett (2003), short story writer
- Julie Hilden (1992), novelist
- Laura Chapman Hruska, novelist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Soho Press
- Edward Lazarus (1987), author of the 1998 non-fiction book Closed Chambers
- He Li (2003), Chinese-language poet
- Walter Lord (1948), author of the 1995 book A Night to Remember, considered a definitive account of the Titanic disaster
- David Orr (1999), poet
- Daniyal Mueenuddin (1996), short story writer
- Matthew Pearl, novelist
- Gretchen Rubin (1995), author of the 2009 book The Happiness Project
- David Stewart (1978), non-fiction writer
- Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008), author of the 1994 memoir Prozac Nation
- Aldo Leopold, Author of "A Sand County Almanac"
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“Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.”
—Tatyana Tolstaya (b. 1951)
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—Diana Trilling (b. 1905)