The Harvard Advocate

History

Founding and early years

Post World War II

Notable past members

Academics and criticism

• Svetlana Alpers, art historian, critic and professor at University of California at Berkeley
• Elif Batuman, author, academic, critic
• Amy Boesky, writer, professor of English at Boston College
• Van Wyck Brooks, literary critic
• John Mason Brown, drama critic, author
• Richard Bulliet, professor of history at Columbia University
• Stephanie Burt, literary critic, poet, professor at Harvard University
• Charles Townsend Copeland, Harvard professor of English literature
• Holland Cotter, art critic with The New York Times, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
• Malcolm Cowley, poet, literary critic, editor at The New Republic
• Jonathan Culler, literary critic, professor of English at Cornell University
• Thomas F. Glick, professor of history at Boston University
• Mark Greif, critic, co-founder of the literary journal n+1
• Allen Grossman, poet, critic, professor of humanities at The Johns Hopkins University
• Lev Grossman, novelist, journalist, book critic for Time Magazine
• Rachel Hadas, poet, professor of English at Rutgers University
• Leslie Kirwan, government official, Harvard Dean for Finance and Administration
• George Lyman Kittredge, literary critic, Harvard professor of English literature
• Susan Manning, dance historian, professor of English and theatre at Northwestern University
• James Matisoff, professor of linguistics, UC Berkeley
• Margaret Mills, folklorist, professor of Near Eastern languages and cultures at Ohio State University
• Christopher Minkowski, professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford
• Stephen Minot, novelist
• William Vaughn Moody, literary critic, Harvard English professor
• Laurie L. Patton, author, poet, dean of Arts and Sciences and professor of religion at Duke University
• Harriet Ritvo, historian, professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Kenji Yoshino, professor of constitutional law at New York University
• Arthur Waldron, professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania

  Art, architecture, and engineering

• Miles Coolidge, photographer, art educator
• Ellen Harvey, visual artist
• Antoinette LaFarge, artist, writer, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine
• Peter Soriano, artist and sculptor

  Business and philanthropy

• Steve Ballmer, businessman, former CEO of Microsoft
• Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Thomas W. Lamont, financier and philanthropist
• Michael Lynton, businessman, current CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Jeffrey Rayport, consultant author, businessman
• Andrew Wylie, literary agent, founder of The Wylie Agency

  Editing and translation

• Witter Bynner, poet, translator
• John Keene, writer and translator
• Maxwell Perkins, editor for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe
• Richard Sieburth, translator, essayist, editor, professor of French and comparative literature at New York University
• Peter Theroux, translator

  Fiction

• Conrad Aiken, novelist and poet
• Emily Barton, novelist, critic, professor of English at Smith College
• William Bayer, novelist, screenwriter
• Louis Begley, novelist
• Caleb Crain, novelist and critic
• Nicholas Delbanco, novelist, professor at Bennington College
• Sean Desmond, writer of Adams Fall, the basis for the 2002 film Abandon
• Nell Freudenberger, novelist, travel writer
• Peter Gadol, novelist
• Allegra Goodman, novelist
• Chad Harbach, novelist, co-founder of literary journal n+1
• Julie Hilden, novelist and lawyer
• Ann Hodgman, author of children's books
• Sara Houghteling, novelist and educator
• Angela Hur, novelist
• Benjamin Kunkel, novelist, co-founder of literary journal n+1
• Oliver LaFarge, writer, anthropologist, Pulitzer prize winner
• Norman Mailer, writer
• Francine Prose, writer

  Film, theater, television, and entertainment

• Robert Anderson, playwright
• William Bayer, novelist and screenwriter
• Harry Brown, poet, novelist, Oscar-winning screenwriter
• Chris Gerolmo, screenwriter, director
• Austin Grossman, author and game designer
• Maeve Kinkead, soap opera actress
• Franklin Leonard, co-founder of The Black List survey
• Karin Lewicki, screenwriter
• Percy MacKaye, dramatist and poet
• Terrence Malick, filmmaker
• Julie Mallozzi, documentary filmmaker, producer
• Lawrence Osgood, playwright and essayist
• Justin Rice, musician and actor
• Richard E. Robbins, documentarian
• Adam Stein, film director, writer and editor
• James Toback, filmmaker

  Journalism and non-fiction writing

• Emily Benedek, journalist and author
• Jacob Brackman, journalist, musical lyricist
• Christopher Caldwell, journalist, senior editor at The Weekly Standard
• Amy Davidson, senior editor at The New Yorker
• Ben Downing, cultural historian
• William Emerson, journalist, editor-in-chief at the Saturday Evening Post
• Hermann Hagedorn, biographer
• Mark Helprin, novelist, journalist, conservative commentator
• Catherine Herridge, chief intelligence correspondent for the Fox News Channel
• H.V. Kaltenborn, radio broadcaster at NBC and CBS
• Perri Klass, pediatrician and writer
• David Laskin, writer, travel journalist
• Jonathan Larsen, former editor-in-chief at The Village Voice
• Sarah Manguso, memoirist, novelist, and poet
• Liz Marlantes, ABC News Correspondent
• Lance Morrow, essayist and writer at Time Magazine
• Timothy Noah, journalist and author, past senior editor of The New Republic
• Katha Pollitt, feminist poet, essayist and critic
• John Reed, journalist, poet, social activist
• Tom Reiss, author, historian, journalist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
• Charlie Savage, newspaper reporter with The New York Times, recipient of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., historian, writer
• Neil Sheehan, journalist, received the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg
• Richard Smoley, writer on esotericism
• Thomas A. Stewart, journalist, editor, director of National Center for the Middle Market at the Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University
• Jean Strouse, biographer
• Melanie Thernstrom, author, contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine

  Law and politics

• Daniel Baer, United States Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• Thomas C. Foley, American diplomat, businessman
• Learned Hand, judicial philosopher, judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Todd M. Hughes, United States Circuit Judge
• Peter Jaszi, author, expert on copyright law
• Peter Junger, internet activist
• Grover Norquist, conservative political advocate
• Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States
• Barbara Underwood, New York Solicitor General
• Charles Proctor Sifton, United States federal judge
• Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University

  Poetry

• Judith Baumel, poet
• April Bernard, poet
• e.e. cummings, poet
• T.S. Eliot, poet
• Arthur Davison Ficke, poet
• Sidney Goldfarb, poet
• Alice Goodman, poet and librettist
• Donald Hall, poet, editor, 14th United States poet laureate
• Matthea Harvey, poet
• Robert Hillyer, poet, Harvard English professor
• Wayne Koestenbaum, poet, cultural critic, professor of English at the City University of New York
• Joyelle McSweeney, poet, critic, professor at University of Notre Dame
• Elise Paschen, editor, poet, co-founder of Poetry in Motion
• Carl Phillips, writer, poet, professor of English and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis
• Adrienne Rich, poet
• Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet, three time Pulitzer prize winner
• Mary Jo Salter, poet, professor in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry
• Frederick Seidel, poet
• Wallace Stevens, poet
• John Hall Wheelock, poet, editor at Scribners
• John Brooks Wheelwright, poet

  Science, technology, medicine, and mathematics

• Jordan Ellenberg, mathematician, professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, anthropologist and primatologist
• Edward Hallowell, psychiatrist and author
• Wendell Lim, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at University of California, San Francisco
• Seth Lloyd, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• James Propp, professor of mathematics at University of Massachusetts Lowell

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