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• Tom Schulman BA’72 – Academy-award winning screenwriter (Dead Poets Society, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids)
• Delbert Mann BA’41 – Academy-award winning director (Marty, Desire Under the Elms, All Quiet on the Western Front)
• Ed Benson, BA’67 – Chief Strategic Officer, Country Music Association (CMA)
• Ken Levitan, BA’79 – Prominent music industry manager
• Sheldon Hackney BA’55 – Former Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
• Amy Grant, BA’82 – Entertainer
• Rosanne Cash, BA’79 – Songwriter/entertainer
• Amy Ray, BA’86 – Member of the Indigo Girls
• Dierks Bentley BA’97 – Country music artist
• George Ducas, BA’89 – singer/songwriter
• Marshall Chapman BA’71 – Singer/songwriter
• Woody Paul, BE’77 – Member of Riders in the Sky band
• Daniel Roumain, BMUS’93 – Composer
• Paul Kingsbury, BA’80 – Country music historian/writer
• Roy Blount, Jr. BA’63 – Author, humorist
• John I. Bloom (a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs) BA’74 – Humorist, journalist, and actor
• James Patterson, MA’70 – Best-selling crime-suspense writer (Kiss the Girls, Along Came A Spider)
• Elizabeth Dewberry, BS’83 – Novelist
• Molly Sims, PB’95 – Supermodel, actress
• MJ Garrett, BS’03 – Cast member on MTV’s 2004 Real World/Philadelphia. He also played VU football.
• Robert Penn Warren, BA’25 (deceased) – Pulitzer prize-winning author; US Poet Laureate
• Randall Jarrell, MA’38 (deceased) – U.S. Poet Laureate
• Allen Tate, BA’22 (deceased) – U. S. Poet Laureate
• John Crowe Ransom, BA 1909 (deceased) – Poet, essayist, social commentator
• Donald Davidson, BA’17 (deceased) – Poet
• Cleanth Brooks, BA’28 (deceased) – Literary critic
• James Dickey, BA’49, MA’50 (deceased) – Novelist and poet, author of “Deliverance”
• Dinah Shore, BA’38 (deceased) – Singer, television talk-show hostess
• Bettie Page, BA’44 (deceased) – Model, celebrity